Israel could be bringing back the death penalty – but only for Palestinians

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-palestinian-death-penalty-9.7019609

by nrhrjrjrjtntbt • 7 months ago

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austin-cheney6• 7 months ago

How is this not apartheid?

coldtea• 7 months ago

Who said it wasn't except the ones doing it?

hkt• 7 months ago

It is

spwa43• 7 months ago

It is not apartheid because the law is not actually making this distinction. The article does three things, and the title ... the title just does not cover the contents:

1) a law is proposed to make it possible to get the death sentence for the worst terrorism offenses. The law does not specify the religion of the terrorist as a factor, though obviously it would predictably affect one group much more than another.

2) a far-right politician with very bad taste in Jewellery claims that no Jew would ever commit terrorism. Incidentally, this politician has been convicted many times by the Israeli legal system. And then he got elected again.

Imho, these two statements do not correctly combine to the sensationalized title of the article.

3) the article points out that this is not the first time a law like this is proposed in Israel, for the same exact reason: the PA uses funds from the UN to pay terrorists and their families, literally per Jew killed. This is why there are claims that the UN pays for terrorists to hunt Jews, because that statement is literally true, just not directly. Palestinians swear in English they'll stop this practice on a regular basis since at least 1995. In arabic they shout on TV they'll never stop doing this. And then they don't stop doing that.

Note: these pay-per-slay payments are referred to by most media, even the BBC, as the "social safety net" of Palestine. Reality: can't work? (try to) kill some Jews, and the Palestinian government will pay your family a living wage based on how much damage you did.

austin-cheney6• 7 months ago

It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (lit. 'boss-ship' or 'boss-hood'), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population.[4] Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

Israeli settlers living in the West Bank fall under a different legal code than the non-Israeli citizens living there. Israelis fall under Israel's civilian legal code while the occupied non-citizens fall under a harsher military occupation system without due process. That system of segregation and separated legal codes is the very nature of apartheid. One class of people has less protections than the other without a means of redress.

That distinction in practical terms is that people in the citizen status are rarely held to account for violent crimes against the people in the non-citizen class while the people in the non-citizen class are severely punished for extremely minor offenses. For example there are cases were IDF soldiers commit first degree homicide on video and yet still receive lighter penalties than minors of the non-citizen class for throwing stones.

By the way, the US used to have a less formalized system of apartheid system as well called separate but equal, but it was eliminated in 1954.

jeremiahlee• 7 months ago

Israeli government officials wearing golden noose lapel pins is…quite the fashion statement.

kgabis• 7 months ago

"are we the baddies?"

Hikikomori• 7 months ago

So death penalty for any Palestinians defending themselves against jewish settlers on the west bank. Kinda already is but now it will be the law.

Israel could be bringing back the death penalty – but only for Palestinians

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