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"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Article 20(1) says:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association."
Everyone has the right to do it without getting rifle-butted or otherwise brutalized.
On April 18, Haaretz writer Zvi Bar'el headlined, "World nations should issue a travel warning to Israel," saying:
Eisner's assault on Andreas "was spectacular." Someone whose life was threatened might react that way. Doing it unprovoked was intolerable. It resembled a Serengeti "kill scene." Eisner was predator, Andreas the prey.
"When a country behaves as if it is a nature preserve where the species living in it feel they are in danger of extinction," its policies go off the rails.
Tourists visiting actual nature preserves know restrictions they must observe. Israel calls itself civilized. In fact, it's a "dangerous preserve and responsible nations should have issued a travel warning for this country long ago, or at least published a detailed guide of what is permitted or forbidden to do here."
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