Lead, Netanyahu, lead

The Times of Israel ^ | 4/16/2014 | David Horovitz

[Former Fetus]

hen Frazier Glenn Cross is convicted of murder for gunning down physician William Corporon, his 14-year-old grandson Reat Griffin, and occupational therapist Terry LaManno, at the Jewish community facilities of Kansas City on Sunday, he will, at the very least, be jailed for life with no possibility of parole. The capital murder charge with which he has been indicted also carries the possibility of the death penalty.

When the gunman who opened fire indiscriminately on Israeli vehicles outside Hebron on Passover eve a day later, killing Baruch Mizrahi, is tracked down and arrested [...]he will face a very different set of consequences.

If experience is any guide, the Israeli judge will impose a similarly severe sentence to his or her American counterpart in the Kansas City hate crime case. The West Bank murderer will be told that he has destroyed an innocent family and will be condemned for the cold-blooded viciousness of his crime. He will then be sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars — both because that is the price society requires him to pay for his act of appalling evil, and because that is where he needs to be so that the rest of us are safe from his demonstrably murderous inclinations and capabilities.

Except that this ostensible mighty gravity of the Israeli justice system is a chimera. For all the formal severity of trial, verdict and sentence, the Hebron killer — who, again if experience is any guide, will treat the court with machoistic contempt, asserting that Israel has no authority over him — will have every reason to feel bold and uncaring. As we know, and as he knows, he need have no concern about spending the rest of his life in jail, or anything like the rest of his life.

[Former Fetus]

True, Netanyahu should go go back to the policy of not negotiating with terrorists. But freezing settlement building, and going back to the 1967 lines are just as big mistakes as releasing terrorists!

[SJackson]

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