'Police delaying evacuation of settlers from controversial East Jerusalem building'

[Jefferson23]

* Mind you, almost two and a half years ago this was ordered.


Jerusalem's legal advisor: Not implementing the order to evacuate given 2 years ago is liable to create feelings of discrimination and does serious damage to the rule of law.

By Akiva Eldar

The police refuse to carry out a court order to evict Jewish residents of the Beit Yonatan building in East Jerusalem, the city's legal advisor, Yosef Havilio, charged on Tuesday.

The order was issued two years ago, and five months ago, then-attorney general Menachem Mazuz ordered the police to execute it without delay. But so far, nothing has happened.

On Tuesday, Havilio sent an angry letter to Police Commissioner David Cohen. Two weeks ago, he wrote, the city's eviction department asked the Jerusalem police to set a date for the eviction, but the police have yet to do so.

City officials, he added, are ready to carry out the eviction immediately and have repeatedly told the police so, but to no avail.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/police-delaying-evacuation-of-settlers-from-controversial-east-jerusalem-building-1.301802

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. The key issue is in the last paragraph. Its not the police, its the mayor

It would seem the intransigence is not from the police but from the mayor.

[Jefferson23]

2. The establishment wins, that's the point...yes.