Israel votes for death penalty for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

The military courts have a 99% conviction rate. The accused are not allowed to know what they are charged with, no evidence is presented, they are not allowed legal representation and and definition of a terrorist act leading to execution doesn’t require any deaths to have happened.

racism is so much more
https://theicenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Arab-Resource-with-Source-Sheet-121923.pdf

and the Israeli settlers

Then they should do the same to the scum who are attacking and killing Palestinians in the West Bank. Oh wait, that would be the IDF...

So no problem with executing innocent people, which will happen, as it has here in the UK and in other countries with the death penalty.

The proposed law says "Murdering Israelis and acts that harm the state... so not only murder....

I expect your question, though both pertinent and valid, is rhetorical.

Zionists in the occupied West Bank have always had carte blanche to murder the indigenous Palestinians at will.

And the World has always, and will continue to turn a blind eye.

And I am sorry to say, but this law is a clear apartheid law. There is no other way to see it.

Settler attacks against Palestinians are on the rise with reports of almost daily attacks. In the past month alone they have led to the indiscriminate murder of Palestinians. I can't understand why these acts of terror are treated differently? The stats for convictions against extremist settlers is also shockingly low. In short they can quite literally get away with murder.

Why are settlers who carry acts of terror against Palestinians treated with such leniency?

Yeah that will be the difference between someone who trusts how Israel deals with Palestinians that they consider to be a criminal, and those of us who don’t trust them at all. After watching Israel’s behaviour towards Palestinians for years, particularly the last 2.5, I’m in the “don’t trust” camp. But perhaps you have their word for how this apartheid law is going to be implemented?

Yes it only applies to West Bank residents convicted of deadly terrorist acts.

Not intended to punish kids throwing stones (though that could be highly dangerous).

Actually I did read in the Times of Israel though that the law will not apply retroactively, so a separate bill is being advanced for the perpetrators of the October 7 attacks.

Saudi Arabia are a strong ally of the UK. We collaborate with them on defence, trade, energy etc. They also have major issues with misuse of the death penalty, particularly discriminatory use against Shi'a muslims. In fact it is well known that shias suffer systematic discrimination in Saudi. Interestingly, we don't hear a lot from 'anti-Saudis' that it is an apartheid state or that it is disgusting.

So while I agree that this is a horrible and important issue, I am also interested in how selective it seems to be. It can't be just chance that all the threads on the 'middle east' board just happen to be about Israel, with 90% being anti-Israel.

Massive leap there, well done.
No one throwing stones will be executed.
They are talking about the scum who were involved in Oct 7th and the hundreds of other atrocities committed against the Israelis.

None of us on this thread are defending or applauding the wearing of golden nooses or champagne celebrations though are we?

Though you don't know how we were raised seeing as we are strangers on the internet, nevertheless we have all expressed dislike of the above crass behaviour.

Convicted terrorist? Well being a teenage Palestinian who throws a stone will be enough to get convicted of that I suspect 🙄

So Israel has managed to make sure that ALL convictions are 100% safe? and that no Palestinian executed isn't innocent?

Are you aware that plenty of people, all around the world, have been hung and been jailed for very long periods, only to be found to be innocent, bad enough when its after prison but after an execution.....

Faux outrage? disgusting thing to say about people opposed to the taking of human life, but no surprise from the pro Israeli lobby, they really can do no wrong.

Not any old prisoners though, is it?
They would be convicted terrorist murderers.

I’m not surprised at the faux outrage.

You don’t even need to go googling. Mumsnetters on here have already given examples for you

How anyone can defend or applaud the wearing of golden nooses and champagne celebrations of the ability to legally kill prisoners is beyond me. Be the best you can be. None of us were raised to behave like this.

All Palestinians except for a few with Israeli citizenship

'A few with Israeli citizenship' Far from a few but don't let facts get in the way of your hyperbole! Palestinian, aka Arab Israelis with full citizenship, count for 20% of the population, around 2 million people.

I agree. The 7 October pogrom affected everyone in Israel in some form or another and goes a long way to understand why the bill went through.

How do you therefore explain that there are Arab Israelis elected to the Knesset? Out of 120 MKs there are currently 12 Arab Israelis in the Knesset.
There are approximately 2 million Arab Israeli citizens.

While it is absolutely horrendous it basically means that Israel is suggesting doing what Palestinians are doing to Israelis already. The only reason it resonates so badly is because Israel supposed to be more "enlightened", democratic and West-like. Which they are not anymore - they are becoming very similar to its neighbours.

Shame its a race to the bottom but there are no "good guys" or innocent sides in this conflict.

Concur @Twiglets1 the taking of life is wrong.

If they wanted to introduce the death penalty for those convicted of lethal terrorist attacks it would be somewhat understandable, yes.

Though again I wouldn't agree with it as I don't support the death penalty.