Olmert: Israel will try 'Jericho Six'

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 15 March 2006 | HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF

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Mar. 15, 2006 3:08 | Updated Mar. 15, 2006 18:01
Olmert: Israel will try 'Jericho Six'
By HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that the six Palestinians arrested by the IDF in its Tuesday raid on a Jericho prison will be charged and tried by Israel.

Five of the prisoners, including Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestinian head Ahmed Sa'adat, were found guilty in a Palestinian court of the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, and the sixth, Fuad Shubaki, was found guilty of smuggling weapons into the territories via the Karine A.

Rejecting allegations that the raid was politically motivated, Olmert said the timing of the raid "was determined largely by the decision of the US government and the British government to pull out their inspectors from the jail in Jericho."

The Shin Bet continued to interrogate the six inmates throughout the day on Wednesday.

A Shin Bet source told Israel Radio that the men were arrested according to regulations and without any relation to the agreement under which they were serving time in the Jericho Prison.

Vice Premier Shimon Peres applauded the IDF mission, emphasizing that the Palestinians had violated an international agreement in both their maintenance of security and calls to release the prisoners. He said that since the crime was committed on Israeli soil, Israel had jurisdiction over the prisoners.

Foreign Minister and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said Wednesday morning that the decision on where and how to try the six would be taken based on the results of their interrogation.

Attorney General Menahem Mazuz was examining whether the six could in fact be tried in Israel. Legal experts have said that because the inmates were already tried in a Palestinian court, it was possible that the most Israel could do was detain them until the end of their PA-court-dictated sentences.

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[sheik yerbouty]

Terrorists should be shot..

[anotherview]

Israel does not have the death penalty except for genocide. Besides, a life of hard labor is more punishment than merely shooting them.

[Alouette]

Besides, a life of hard labor is more punishment than merely shooting them.

What kind of hard labor? They have to empty their own wastebaskets?

[Paul_Denton]

I agree.

[anotherview]

The Knesset should amend the law so that they can be forced to do hard labor.

[Mark17]

The Knesset should amend the law so that they can be forced to do hard labor.

The only way I can think of, is to refuse to feed them if they don't. Make sense?

[anotherview]

I can think of other things but that one is good.

[Mark17]

I can think of other things but that one is good.

LOL, I could too, but this is a public forum :-)

Regards.

[sheik yerbouty]

Their cohorts use their incarceration as a pretext for more mayhem. If the terrorists are planted in the ground like onions, their supporters would not have violent outbursts to free them. It can be argued that the stated intent of terrorists, particularly Hamas terrorists, is in fact, to commit genocide. Their intent is in their charter. That being said, the government in Israel should repent of its past error regarding the use of the death penalty.

[Alouette]

The Knesset should amend the law so that they can be forced to do hard labor.

Oh, so what you meant to say way, "a life of 'Club Gitmo' luxury at Israeli taxpayer expense until they are released in the next 'goodwill' prisoner exchange for nothing is more punishment than merely shooting them."

Yeah, more punishment for the Israelis.

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[tet68]

Israel should just part them out, I'm sure there are a lot
of suffering Israelis who need organs.

Let the muslims deal with being UNDEAD!

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[goldstategop]

Menachem Mazuz is another Leftist Attorney General. Let's hope his office doesn't go soft on Rehavam Zeevi's murderers.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[goldstategop]

They should be given the death penalty and hanged like Eichmann was. Either you take murder seriously or its just a stroll in the park kind of thing. I really wish Israel stepped to the plate, world opinion be damned.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[goldstategop]

Yeah and with that kind of mindset, Jewish blood in Israel IS really cheap.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[anotherview]

I will remind you that under Israel's system of government the Knesset can overrule the High Court. Mazuz does not have the final say.