Posted on 03/31/2026 4:51:36 PM PDT by ebb tide
On Monday, Israel’s Knesset approved legislation requiring the death penalty for Palestinians found guilty of fatalities due to “terrorist” attacks. The measure was championed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Jewish Power party, who marked the occasion by celebrating with champagne.
The new “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” specifically targets Palestinians calling for capital punishment in cases where a “terrorist” is convicted of deliberately killing a person “with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.”
The discriminatory wording of the new law establishes a distinction ensuring it would apply essentially only to Palestinians while simultaneously exempting Jewish terrorists, including in the West Bank, from any such consequences.
Two years ago, Ben Gvir, who has responsibility for the Israeli prison system, called for executing Palestinians to make more room in the prisons. After Monday’s vote, Ben Gvir proclaimed, “The State of Israel is changing the rules of the game today: whoever murders Jews will not continue to breathe and enjoy conditions in prison. This is a day of justice for the victims and a day of deterrence for our enemies.”
The bill, which makes death by hanging the default sentence, passed with support from 62 Knesset members, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Forty-eight lawmakers opposed it, and one chose to abstain.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem strongly condemned the new law, noting that such trials of Palestinians in the West Bank will be conducted in military courts where evidence is questionable and conviction rates very high.
“The penalty – execution by hanging – must be carried out within 90 days of sentencing, with no possibility of pardon,” the organization explained. “The death penalty will be determined in military courts where only Palestinians are tried.”
“These courts have an approximately 96% conviction rate, based largely on ‘confessions’ extracted under duress and torture during interrogations,” the rights group added.
Additionally, the “death penalty will be the default sentence, and judges will be able to commute it to life imprisonment only in special circumstances,” the B’Tselem statement continued. And “once the sentence has been handed down, there will be no possibility of a pardon or any reduction of the sentence.”
Human Rights Watch deputy Middle East director Adam Coogle observed, “Israeli officials argue that imposing the death penalty is about security, but in reality, it entrenches discrimination and a two-tiered system of justice, both hallmarks of apartheid.”
The Palestinian Authority (PA) also denounced the new law with the Palestinian presidency saying it “amounts to a war crime against the Palestinian people and comes within the broader context of escalating Israeli policies and measures across the occupied Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.”
The PA statement went on to pledge the new law “will not break the will of the Palestinian people or undermine their steadfastness” or will it “deter them from continuing their legitimate struggle for freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
And the overwhelming majority of the member states of the United Nations, along with the Catholic Church, support this aspiration.
A full 157 of 193 (81.3%) member states of the United Nations formally recognize the State of Palestine, and around 185 nations (95.8%) call for this two-state solution.
In addition, consistently affirming and echoing this overwhelming consensus is the Catholic Church, including the unanimous and constant voices of her bishops in the Middle East, those from around the world, with confirmations from the Vatican as well.
In fact, last June, the Holy See commemorated the 10th anniversary of its formal recognition of the State of Palestine in 2015 after welcoming UN recognition of the state “with favor” in 2012.
While Israel’s new “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” exacts a radical double standard of justice within their own state and occupied territories, Jewish settler terrorism in the West Bank continues to march on with impunity.
Last week, the Guardian reported that “since 2020 Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, at least a quarter of whom were children … No one has been charged over any of these deaths.”
In addressing the new discriminatory law, Catholic humanitarian and Vulnerable People Project founder Jason Jones tweeted, “The Knesset has approved the death penalty — to be applied only to Palestinians. Let that sink in. A legal system where one people faces execution and another does not.”
“Israel makes the Jim Crow South look like a human rights utopia. Where are the bishops in the United States?” he asked. “Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality. It is complicity.”
“Israel makes the Jim Crow South look like a human rights utopia. Where are the bishops in the United States?” he asked. “Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality. It is complicity.”
“escalating Jewish terrorism”?? Did Pucker Saracen write this effin drivel?
Well golly, that's good enough for me.
an you are a effin retard. Go crawl back up Fuentes’ cornhole.
A: Don’t be a jihadi terrorist murderer.
No problem.
Who the eff are you to decide what they're doing is wrong?
Who gives a flyin eff what Pedo US Bishops have to say about anything these days?
Israel has issues, as nobody is infallible. Who are you to proclaim they are wrong with this decision (and many other decisions as I've noted in your previous postings)?
Screw you, comrade!
So are the dead Jews the terrorist killed “Vulnerable People” too, or only the living murderer?
Best thing to do with them.
Well since there is no such thing in modern times a Palestinian race. What is the concern?
Palestine was a Roman invention of an area they conquered and ruled. There is no such thing outside an imagined
heritage for a distinctly different people.
That is like saying Americans and Europeans
are separate peoples. We are separate
only in Political terms.
Now if the distinction is you can Hang Moslem criminals
but not any others, that may be a point to argue.
Personally I’d have no problem repudiating Allah.
I’m a Christian and my great grandfather
was a polish Jew carpenter
in the Imperial Russian army.
Did Jason Jones raise a stink about the Jews murdered after being taken hostage in Gaza?
And the overwhelming majority of the member states of the United Nations, along with the Catholic Church, support this aspiration.
A full 157 of 193 (81.3%) member states of the United Nations formally recognize the State of Palestine, and around 185 nations (95.8%) call for this two-state solution. That’s OK, until they want to decapitate me because I don’t believe the way they do.
Without benefit of trial or defense?
Or is he pro-convicted murderer and anti-innocent civilian?
Jason Jones is a liar:
Q: Is Israel’s new Death Penalty for Terrorist law specific as to the religion of the terrorist, or might a Christian Arab, or Buddhist Chinese be liable for the death penalty too?
Grok:
“No, Israel’s new “Death Penalty for Terrorists” law (officially the Penal Law (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), passed by the Knesset on March 30, 2026) is not specific to the religion of the terrorist. The text of the law makes no reference whatsoever to religion, ethnicity, or any faith-based criterion. It is framed entirely around the nature of the offense (intentionally causing death as part of an “act of terrorism”) and the defendant’s legal status under Israeli jurisdiction (citizenship/residency and which court system applies).  ”
Therefore, the lead sentence is a bald faced lie:
Israel approves death penalty law for Palestinians only
Therefore, the lead sentence is a bald faced lie:
Israel approves death penalty law for Palestinians only
This only works if the guilty are left hanging so that buzzards and vultures can eat
If palestinian muslims choose to commit or refrain from terrorism against Israel’s existence, they will be treated the same as any other religion or ethnic group.
That they are inordinately commanded by their insane religion to murder innocents is the fault of mad mo, no Israel.
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