The journalist was acquitted because she had reasonable evidence to support her accusations. To support that, the court pointed out that the officer was was under indictment at the time on similar charges. But that’s a chicken-and-egg question! He was indicted specifically because of media hysteria, and later acquitted.

Now leftist journalists have learned that they are safe from prosecution for libel as long as they can push law enforcement to investigate their allegations. And so they will become ever more aggressive in pressing their false accusations against soldiers.

This is the bane of the US medical system, where doctors test for everything out of fear of negligence claims. In reality, medical work always involves risk, and running to avoid marginal hazards greatly increase the costs and inconvenience for the vast majority of the population.

The Clalit case will push hospitals to conduct unreasonably extensive testing and drive up medical costs for all Israelis.

There is no doubt that he was threatened, beaten, and sodomized with a baton—not for the sheer fun of it, but in order to extract information about Ron Arad, who had been captured by Dirani’s colleagues. Logically, if we are prepared to release a thousand Arabs to bring back one Jew, and a very bad Jew at that, then that is all the more reason we should be allowed to torture an Arab to bring back another Jew.

Now a member of Unit 504 has filed a countersuit against the government, claiming that he was fired because of Dirani’s allegations even though he was not the one who tortured the terrorist. It is one thing that the government submitted to the court’s dictates, but a totally different thing that good interrogators are actually being punished for doing their jobs rescuing a Jew.

The court said correctly that the right to marital life does not have to be realized within the borders of Israel, and the Palestinians can live just as happily in their own state ten miles away.

The Chief Judge was among the dissenters.

Now, Danziger clearly was not snow-white in the corruption scandal involving Bat Yam mayor Lahiani. As a private attorney who worked for Lahiani for two years and pocketed more than $200,000 in fees (plus various business deals), he certainly was tainted by the mayor’s corruption.

Indeed, it is hard to imagine any private attorney not being involved in some form of corruption, especially an attorney working with high-profile white-collar criminals. So either private attorneys should be barred summarily from the Supreme Court as a suspicious crowd, or their real-world experience should outweigh their previous dirty affiliations.

On the other hand, no private attorney has ever committed worse crimes against Israel than Supreme Court president Dorit Beinish, who routinely compromised state security to placate leftists.

Of course, the last thing he wanted was sex with her.

This argument is odd. Most occupiers install a subservient local government, and such a government would of course sign any agreement with them. The 1907 Hague Convention makes such agreements illegal, assuming correctly that they are made under duress against the interests of local populations.

Of course we do not occupy the land, which is ours. But in the leftist worldview of the Supreme Court, their decision on quarries is mistaken.

Now, his actions could be called by any number of names, but to treat them as a crime, especially the heinous crime of rape, takes a ‘Katsav court.’

Though the Supreme Court claims to reject evidence obtained under torture, in practice no one has yet found any other way to get information from terrorists, and the practice continues. Time and again, policemen are disciplined for interrogating terrorists under pressure, but acquittals like this one come only in low-profile cases. Overall, military courts remain sensible when dealing with terrorists.

The court’s standard of proof in the Katsav case lent credibility to malicious women, enabling baseless prosecutions. His case was special, as Shimon Peres was a personal enemy of his. But now our country is threatened with a flood of rape allegations against promiscuous politicians.