Proposed Law: no visitors to members of terror organizations

MK Oren Hazzan (Likud) has proposed a law that would stop many from visiting Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Hazzan's proposal is that any terror organization holding Israelis as prisoners and does not allow visitors - family members, representatives of Israel or humanitarian organizations - to visit these captives, will not be allowed to have visitors to its members, or those who associate with them, sitting in Israeli jails. The minister in charge will be allowed to grant exceptions when deemed necessary.

Hazzan explains that the State of Israel deals with terror organizations threatening the citizens of Israel everywhere and anywhere and all the time, but because Israel is a democracy it has to adhere to the rules of international conventions and agreements for human rights - rules the terror organizations are not obligated by. So the terror organizations use this as a strategy and abduct and hold Israelis and do not allow visitors, harming the morale, and the strength, of Israel. While Israel holds members of these organizations in jail, it does allow visitors, and this will make the dealings equitable between the sides.

The proposal has passed the vote of the Ministerial Legislative Committee.
source: Walla News

While I like the proposal, I do not like the explanation. It bothers me that we say that we are going to act like them. Explain it a different way, not as a tit for tat, they do this and can get away with it so we will treat them the same. Talk about strength and power and mitigating terror and the like - I don't like that he says we will treat them the way they treat us. 

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