“In Jewish law, it is commanded to treat every claim equally,” wrote attorney Yitzhak Bart in a 2014 article whose title references the Jewish concept that a claim involving a penny should be treated the same as one involving a large sum. Now, Bart is a senior deputy head of the State Prosecutor’s Office division that represents the state in cases before the High Court of Justice.
Last Tuesday, he enthusiastically represented the state and the Israeli army in court over their demand to demolish eight West Bank Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta, a cluster of Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills, so that military training can be conducted in the area. Officers in uniform from the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank and from the army’s Central Command attended the hearing and whispered into Bart’s ear from time to time.
Bart passionately lamented that the villages are not what they were 40 years ago, when the army first designated the villages’ land a military training zone. “The
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Amira Hass | 22 Mar 2022