Israel Advances Death Penalty: ‘Terrorists’ or Just Palestinians?
While RT reports Israel's Knesset is advancing a bill for the death penalty for 'terrorists,' critics, surprisingly, point out it might disproportionately affect Palestinians. One wonders how such a universally applied term like 'terrorist' could ever be unequally enforced. It’s almost as if the Israeli legal system, operating in the West Bank under military rule for Palestinians and civilian law
for settlers, has a history of unequal application. (Shocking, I know). This isn't Israel's first legislative rodeo with 'security.' Netanyahu's rhetoric has consistently conflated Palestinian resistance with 'terrorism' since *at least* the early 2000s—a consistent political line that, coincidentally, solidifies his right-wing base. One might also recall the US media's general silence on the
numerous administrative detentions and extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, which never seem to merit the same outraged headlines as, say, a Hamas rocket that might or might not hit a military target. So, 'death penalty for terrorists?' Or just a more efficient system?