Israeli Bill Approving Death Penalty For Terrorists Passes Preliminary Knesset Vote
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[QUOTE]A bill approving the use of the death penalty for terrorists passed in a preliminary vote in the Knesset on Wednesday.
The bill, sponsored by Yisrael Beytenu, has been criticized by the opposition as pushing an agenda of "ultra-nationalism and populism," and was originally voted down when it was first brought to the Knesset in 2015.
Israeli law currently allows military courts to use the death penalty if there is a consensus of all the judges presiding over the trial. This bill would allow a majority of judges to sentence a terrorist to death.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Bibi. This is what Israel needs right now.
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[url]http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Death-penalty-bill-passes-early-Knesset-vote-532745[/url] (more thorough article)
Context:
Recently the ultra Orthodox parties made a big show of threatening to leave the coalition because the government allowed some rail infrastructure work during Saturdays.
To appease them, the government is trying to push through a new law that would give the (currently Ultra Orthodox) minister of internal affairs authority to approve or deny opening businesses like convenience stores on Saturday, a huge blow to the existing status-quo where this authority was in the hand of cities that could have businesses open on Saturday if they so desired.
This is however incredibly disagreeable to the government's other coalition partner Lieberman, whose Russian immigrant party is right wing but very secular. So to appease these guys and hopefully get them to get behind the convenience store law they're pushing through the terrorist execution laws, which is one of the things Lieberman promised his voters.
And all this is in a desperate attempt to keep this barely functioning coalition together long enough to pass all the "don't convict Bibi" laws Netanyahu needs to pass before all his many corruption investigations become trials.
tl;dr nobody cares about terrorists. This is just petty politics.
Please tell me this won’t be used alongside their policy of collective punishment.
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