Tel Aviv court virtually acquits Israeli policemen who mutilated a Jewish protester

Court found Eran Naim and Avraham Eliran guilty of “common assault,” a minor charge. Naim and Eliran tore the nostrils of Akiva Witkon who peacefully protested Gush Katif eviction. The policemen face up to two years in jail, but likely released on probation. More than a dozen other policemen who were videotaped participating in brutal beating of the Jewish protester in Ramat Gan went unpunished. Naim and Eliran were not taken into custody. The proceedings drug for more than a year.
Israeli policemen are routinely discharged and promptly given long sentences for being less than perfectly nice with Arabs.