The Back Page: ‘A Social Code of Discourse Doesn’t Exist in Israel’

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http://www.jrep.com/Mideast/Article-0.html

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"The potential for another crime similar to the Rabin assassination is clear and present, says Talia Sasson, head of a State Prosecution team dealing with ideological crimes involving the Shin Bet, the army and the police. Speaking in early November, close to the eighth anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Sasson asserts that the recent conviction of three Jewish men for attempting to place a bomb outside an East Jerusalem girls’ school is "no different from Arab terror."Having headed the interdepartmental body for seven years, Sasson says that stopping incitement to political and racist violence is not solely the job of law enforcement. She points to the absence of a social code of what is permissible to say and what is not, and regrets the fact that public figures like rabbis and Knesset members, who she says should be leading the fight against incitement, often use the most inflammatory language. Sasson is acutely aware of the dangers of the current atmosphere of incitement. This will become worse, she fears, if serious talks with the Palestinians resume."