http://israel-lightontonations.blogspot.com/2011/11/cats-in-israel-rejoice-as-knesset.html
On Monday evening, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed a long-overdue ban on the act of “declawing” cats. Declawing involves the surgical removal of all claws of the cat, and they cannot grow back. Declawing is not only painful (it involves the cutting off of the cat’s last knuckles), but can adversely affects cats’ balance, agility, and of course, mobility. For stray cats or those that are later abandoned, it also leaves them defenseless. As any pet owner can tell you, if you want your cat to avoid leaving big scratches on the furniture (or your arms), routine trimming of the nails is perfectly harmless and effective.
The bill outlines a few cases of “medical exception” in which declawing would be allowed, but generally speaking, not only is declawing banned, the penalties are nothing to scoff at. Violators may face up to 1 year in prison or a NIS 75,000 fine.
The legislation was backed by a wide coalition of political parties, sponsored by Knesset members Eitan Cabel of Labor, Yoel Hasson of Kadima, Dov Khenin of Hadash and Nitzan Horowitz of Meretz. Last week, the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee voted unanimously to push the bill through, with the support of Israel’s Agriculture Ministry, which is also responsible for animal welfare.
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meow..
gyrofry posted:
this is good news and it just goes to show that while israel may not be purrrfect (heh) they really do have their hearts in the right place. just like with the american civil rights movement, you have to start somewhere and it just so happens that israel has started with gays and kitties, but where it ends who can say
full Palestinian land rights right meow!!!!! *bats at rights gridlock* *rolls over & displays stomach for BF to scratch* ima farking cat in a cat land
tpaine posted:discipline posted:
I never had the passing inclination to stomp a baby animal to death until I saw one starving + mewling pitifully under a cart with its eyes crusted shut and maggots aRGh.. jerusalem is not a city for cat lovers.jesus lady it's not the cat's fault it got gross. give it a break for once in your miserable life already.
a neck break? Is this some coup de grace joke
tpaine posted:vampirarchist posted:the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee
The Tel Aviv Sports and Music Festival
getfiscal posted:
you guys are creating a false dilemma between cats rights and palestinian rights. as a cats rights advocate i take offense that you would call this polishing the silverware.
If not now then When, WHEN
babyfinland posted:
If not now then When, WHEN
be the pro-claw change you want to see in the world
Crow posted:
Cat planet my nigga
tpaine posted:germanjoey posted:hahaha i never seen these cat videos before this is great... really captures the essense of that masterpiece hahahaha
you mean raocow right
its like he just drunkenly rambles on the entire time but its hilarious for some reason, like its a zen thing
yeah this
its just like i remember playing it myself hahahah
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/mustafa-tamimi-had-died.html
Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year old resident of Nabi Saleh died from injuries sustained after an Israeli soldier shot him in the face with a tear gas canister. The impact blew off half of Tamimi's face, and when his friends and family cried out in horror, Israeli soldiers laughed and said, "So?". According to B'Tselem, Tamimi is the 20th person to have been killed in demonstrations in the West Bank in the last eight years.
Video of Tamimi laying injured and unconscious after the attack (extremely graphic):
What are Israeli soldiers doing in Nabi Saleh in the first place? The village has been besieged by its neighbors from the religious nationalist Israeli settlement of Halamish since Halamish was constructed in 1977 on land privately owned by Nabi Saleh’s residents. Recently, the settlers seized control of a fresh water spring that has belonged to Nabi Saleh since the village was built in the 19th century. In December 2009, the settlers uprooted hundreds of the village’s olive trees in an attempt to re-annex land awarded back to Nabi Saleh in an Israeli court case. Since then, farmers from Nabi Saleh have been subjected to routine attacks by settlers and prevented from working their land. The Israeli army has come down firmly on the side of Halamish, suppressing the demonstrations with disproportionate force while doing little, if anything, to prevent settler violence. But if the spirit of Nabi Saleh’s young demonstrators are any indication, the army has a long way to go before it breaks the villagers’ will.