IMRA Weekly Commentary..
27 June '20..
Link: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php?id=73689..
Last Friday former Israel Air Force General Amir Haskel was for blocking the street by the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem.
Again. Haskel was engaged in civil disobedience. He broke the law blocking a street in protest.
Since then there is an uproar that he was arrested for breaking the law.
This reflects a profound misunderstanding of the principle of civil disobedience: those who engage in civil disobedience believe so strongly in whatever it is that they are protesting that they are willing to pay the consequences of violating the law in protest.
The people complaining about the treatment of Haskel aren't promoting democracy. They are supporting anarchy.
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