The Israeli crack up continues apace...

...or, FREE ORYAH SHIREL!

The rule of law is collapsing in the easternmost outpost of the West, and freedom is next. See if this story reminds you of anything in your local newspaper.

This is not an accident, kiddies. The civilization that brought you Titian, iPods, Common Law, monotheism, slinkys, the Magna Carta, the Golden Rule, and bananas on South Dakota's grocery shelves in the middle of winter is dying. And we are killing it through neglect.


From Israelinsider:

Fifteen-year-old Oryah Shirel is in jail indefinitely. But she has the key. All she has to do is to sign on bail. But she won't do it.

Oryah was arrested at a demonstration outside the kindergarten in her hometown of Hebron. She and hundreds others were protesting the fact that the Israeli government is rebuilding an Arab home in the Jewish community's kindergarten playground. In the past, Jewish children in the playground had been attacked from that home.

In her decision to return Oryah to her prison cell, Judge Shalev-Gartel wrote that even the prosecution agrees that there is no basis to believe that Oryah acted in an illegal manner. So how does a wholesome teenager who doesn't smoke, drink or do drugs end up in prison? Why doesn't she have the basic rights afforded to all minors that include the privilege to call home and to receive clean clothing?