NationStates Jolt Archive

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1) read the case

2) say something about why your voting an option

3) see if someone has an argument for what your think

4) vote

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edit: here's the link

edit2: dammit link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4229136.stm

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Okay, here's a few quick analyses.

Firstly, Deir Jarir's justice system is at definite odds with the international court of human rights. Condonable murder is inexcusable, and an immediate international inquiry into the type of judicial process that allows such treatment of human life in Palestine should be made. Renouncing of such an approach to justice should be demanded of the Palestinian people as a contractual long-term condition to maintaining their own state.

Palestine as a state would need to take full governance over such cases, and any sort of "Dishonouring" events such as the original liason between Mahdi and Hayem must be judiciary with sentences restricted to either banishment, imprisonment, fine or tortary embursment.

Until such time, we must ask the same question of the Israeli government. Why has such tribal governance allowed to continue unhindered? Until Palestine has its own state, Israel must provide a method of due process to allow such disputes to be dealt with in a court of law, even if it needs to set up one under explicitly Muslim guidance and oversight. Otherwise, families and villages will continue to take the law into their own hands in the way they know best; raw violence.


As to the actual case, were it executed in Britain, I would recommend that an order be put upon the Ejerj family that they are to immediately cease their actions against the Khoury family and to contribute to the costs of repairing the buildings they have damaged. They will also have to pay an amount in personal damages, but this may be matched by the exact same amount in damages that Mahdi Khoury will have to pay in personal damages to the Ejerj family in theft (of the daughter) and unlawful trespassing if it turns out that he is indeed the father of the child.

Unless they do so, an immediate enquiry will be launched into the death of Hayem Ejerj. Should she be found to be the victim of human action without a confession from any member of the community, every adult male in the town of Deir Jarir will be held to be complicit in her murder and sentenced to a minimum five year prison sentence in a Christian retention centre. The same will occur should Mahdi Khoury be killed as a result of Deir Jarir action, and should the two have been found to occur together, they will all be given a life sentence, of which they must serve a minimum of twenty years. For any other casualty they cause, five years will be added to the sentence.

The town will be made aware of these conditions. If the community is willing, further tests may be performed to discover the father's identity. Otherwise, Mahdi will be treated as without blame. If it turns out that he is, indeed, the baby's father, he will have to pay an amount in personal damages to the Ejerj family (that will merely nullify a significant portion of the damages he would be paid) and make a public apology for his role in any grief that may have been caused by the incident (which must be immediately followed in kind by an apology by the recipients for their role in the incident). If not, or if the Ejerj family refuse to undergo the tests, he will receive a considerable pay-off for his troubles.

Finally, with regards to Hayem's death, as long as the Ejerj family backs off from Mahdi following any proceedings and reimbursements, their word will be accepted. However, as soon as any potentially aggressive activity arises between the towns again, or any more incidents of the family are reported, the case will be reopened and the repercussions on the family will include an additional charge of Felony.

At any point, confessions may be made and jail sentences made. Should violence continue after a confession has been made as to the death of Hayem, however, the aforementioned punishment will be inacted and the adult male population of Deir Jarir be imprisoned.