Knesset member urges death for Israeli authors of "Geneva" peace plan

Agence France-Presse ^ | 21 October 2003

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JERUSALEM - A right-wing Knesset member Tuesday accused high-profile Israeli leftists who drafted an unofficial peace plan with the Palestinians of "treason" and demanded they be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

"Those who initiated the Geneva agreement have perpetrated a crime of treason necessitating a death sentence or life imprisonement," Shaul Yahalom, who heads the radical National Religious Party (NRP), wrote in a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, according to a copy obtained by AFP.

The symbolic Geneva peace plan was drawn up last week between Israeli left-wingers, including former justice minister Yossi Beilin, and leading Palestinians such as former information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.

Yahalom charged that the "Israelis behind this initiative have devised an agreement whose goal is, among other things, to deprive Israel of its sovereignty over the (Palestinian territories) and notably Jerusalem."

According to available details, the plan provides for shared sovereignty over disputed areas of the holy city of Jerusalem and gives the Palestinians 97.5 percent of the West Bank.

In exchange, Palestinian refugees would waive their right of return to areas now incorporated in the state of Israel as it was founded in 1948.

It is likely to be "signed" next month in Switzerland, possibly on November 4, the eighth anniversary of the assassination of former peacemaking Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist.

Israel has applied the death penalty only once, against Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. He was hanged in a prison near Tel Aviv in 1962.

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Israel should start applying the death penalty to these terrorists as well as the arab muslim kind PDQ or the arab maps will soon be correct.

Your choice Israel.

[rmlew]

the National Religious Party (Mafdal)is "right-wing" and extreme?
It has been part of almost every coalition government since 1950!
It is a centrist Religious Zionist party. Meimad, which broke from it joined Labor. Meimad represented socialist Zionist Jews who were willing to accomodate teh Arabs.

The Tekumah faction broke with the NRP and joined Moledet to form National Union. Moledet is a Right-wing party calling for transfer.

The bias in the article is Amazing. AFP calls members of Fatah moderate, refuses to label Palestinian terrorists as such, but calls a member of a centrist party, a right-wing extremist.
Damn Tranzis.