Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted on Sunday to advance a bill that would allow courts to impose capital punishment for certain terrorist offenses.
Under the proposed law, the death penalty could be applied when the victim is killed because of a “racist motive or hatred for a certain public” and with “the purpose of harming the State of Israel and the rebirth of the Jewish people in its homeland.”
The move comes on the same day that a terrorist claimed the lives of two Jewish civilians in Samaria.
“We have now passed the Death Penalty for Terrorists Law in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation together with the Minister @itamarbengvir,” Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu tweeted.
“We will continue to act by all means, through defense, operational activity and legislation, to deter the terrorists and maintain Israel’s security. Our answer to terrorism is to hit terrorism hard and deepen our roots in our country,” he added.
“On this difficult day when two Jews were murdered in a shocking terrorist attack, there is nothing more symbolic than the passing of a death penalty law for terrorists. Terrorism is vanquished on offense and not on defense and we will fight with all the tools at our disposal,” he said.
On Sunday, two brothers, Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 20, were gunned down while driving through the Arab village of Huwara on Route 60. The terrorist reportedly approached their car and fired at them with a handgun from point-blank range. JNS
We all know that the only “terrorists” the anti-Israel pro-Arab radical leftist self-appointed judges would allow to kill would be the “settlers”. According to these judges, Israel may only shoot at the ankle of terrorists.
Terrorists are willing to die in the first place, so how exactly will this help curb terror?
“There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.” ~ Golda Meir
No more prisoner swaps nor exchanges
About time!
Today terrorists get free room and board with their friends, free medical care, color tv and many other benefits while their family gets a nice pension from the PA.
Today terrorism pays!!
The death penalty should have been applied long ago.
It would have saved many Jewish lives.
But they feel nechama that if they are caught they can go to jail. Don’t give them that.