http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3143771,00.htmlArabs, left-wing blast police decision not to indict any officers over deaths of 13 Arab civilians during October, 2000 riots in support of Aqsa Intifada. MK Cohen: 'racist decision'. MK Barake: 'premeditated murder against Israeli citizens' <snip>
"Israeli Arab leaders and left-wing politicians slammed Sunday's decision by the Police Investigations Committee not to prosecute any police officers for the deaths of 13 Arab civilians during riots in support of the al-Aqsa Intifada in October, 2000.
MK Mohammed Barake (Hadash –Ta'al) said the decision meant the state was guilty for the deaths.
"The decision to clear the state representatives who committed these murders... places the responsibility for the killings on the state.
"The State of Israel murdered its citizens with it's own hands. If Arab citizens can't find justice in the Israeli justice system, they will find it elsewhere – in international courts," he said."
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"Knesset Member Ran Cohen (Yahad-Meretz) said, "it turns out that racism has also spread to the judicial system, otherwise the decision not to launch charges is incomprehensible. The responsibility for this falls on the Attorney General, who must place charges and apply the conclusions of the Or Commission."
Zahava Gal-On, a Knesset Member from the Meretz-Yahad party, said that "it was unfathomable that citizens are killed and no one there to lay down the law. This is contempt for human life and a slap in the check to the Or Commission recommendation. Gal-On said she filed a draft law who's aim is to punish all those who the Or Committee found responsible. "Only legislation like this would breathe life into the conclusions of the Committee," she said."