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2023-03-02T21:59:42.775Z


We are putting ourselves, consciously, into a cultural scenario where we will embody evil and barbarism - while the convicted terrorist will become a martyr, and his supporters, who will hold protest vigils with candles outside the prisons, will be labeled as seekers of compassionate humanism


It is not certain that the death penalty for terrorists will strengthen deterrence.

It is quite certain that he will put Israel under international pressure, encourage bargaining attacks and introduce Israeli society into a conscientious turmoil that will threaten its values.

What is so burning for certain members of the Knesset to promote the death penalty law for terrorists?

This week it was approved in a preliminary reading.

The spokeswoman objected. Civil society organizations raised their voice. There is some instinct on the right to see in these reactions a kind of proof of the righteousness of the way. If the beauties of the soul stand on their feet, we are probably doing something good.

From the beginning it is not clear how well the public debate about the death penalty can be conducted in a climate of a terrorist wave.

Certainly in a tragic, bloody week, like the past week, overflowing with emotions reminiscent of Mississippi on fire.

Hvara is burning.

lynch'.

And if you're on the anti-death penalty side, you must love terrorists.

A friend of terrorists.

The purpose of the law, according to its drafters, is "to suppress terrorism and create a weighty deterrent".

Convicted terrorists, it says, receive extreme conditions in security prisons, or are released in deals.

The law will deny them this hope, thus reducing the motivation to carry out attacks.

Government meeting, photo: no credit

This is an exaggeration.

Imprisonment in a security prison is not a heartwarming experience, and the chance of being released in a deal is slim.

The Israeli penal system did not protect terrorists even before their conviction.

Detainee rights are denied to them.

Administrative prisons, Shin Bet investigations, prolonged prisons under close supervision. There may be room to tighten conditions, but even now it is a longed-for experience. If you are afraid of deals, you can also prevent them through legislation.

And when, in fact, did risking death stop terrorists in our region?

Terrorism flourished even under targeted countermeasures.

A large part of the attacks are carried out by terrorists who know that the chance of escaping is almost zero, and that the chance of a soldier or security guard "neutralizing" them is quite high.

In fact, potential terrorists are prepared to die at the hands of the security forces by default.

There is a chance that for many of them this is the preferred scenario - certainly over imprisonment.

The first convict

Deterrence, therefore, is not certain to emerge from it.

But one can guess how our political and political reality will be when the first prisoner enters the death row.

One can imagine the legions of journalists around the prison.

the television articles and documentaries about his family, about his lawyers who are fighting for his life against a predatory legal system.

Imagine Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.

Imagine the media festivals every time an appeal is filed or a decision is made that will bring us closer to the execution of the sentence.

We are putting ourselves, consciously, into a cultural scenario in which we will be condemned to embody the evil, the opacity, the barbarism - while the convicted terrorist will become a martyr, and his supporters, who will hold protest vigils with candles outside the prisons, will be labeled as seekers of compassionate humanism.

And now imagine the day when the sentence will be carried out.

The day the first terrorist is executed - after he was caught, convicted, imprisoned, imprisoned and ceased to be a threat.

Compare in your mind the eyes of the world on Israel, which does not execute the murderers of its women, but does execute terrorists - who, naturally, in most cases tend to be Arabs.

Palestinians.

It is likely that the first one will be Arab.

Probably the second one too.

It is therefore clear that it is also impossible to escape the racial distinction.

It is an anti-terrorist law;

But at the same time it is a law whose target population is Palestinian.

Arabic.

Prime Minister Netanyahu at the cabinet meeting, photo: Amos Ben Gershom / Prime Minister

But, as they say, a final sentence must be carried out.

in a shooting?

By injecting poison?

Hanging?

And who will fulfill the task?

A Pandora's box of conscientious Levites will open.

Go find out what will come out of there.

And if after two, three, ten, twenty executions it turns out that deterrence was not actually achieved relatively?

If not populism, then one can at least admit that there is some emotional satisfaction that the very promotion of a death penalty law for terrorists is meant to please.

Revenge, at worst.

An illusion of responding to helplessness, at best.

But in any case we are beyond the level of efficiency;

With this law we are in the biblical dimension: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, the revenge of a little child.

The beauty, in Israeli culture, at least as it wants to see itself, is that in most cases we leave these principles in a sublime book of consciousness;

outside of our physical being.

In real life, Israel the conscientious objector only kills when there is no choice.

In front of a ticking bomb, not in front of the wounded body of Abdel-Fattah al-Sharif.

For killing him, Elor Azaria was sent to prison, his beard was shaved by the Israeli conscience in an ecstasy of righteousness.

Now you want to legalize this violence?

A whirlwind of conscience

According to some estimates, the number of Palestinian deaths in Judea and Samaria in 2022 was the highest in the last two decades.

Many of them are young people.

What does the rampage of terrorism in the last year teach about the deterrent effect of killing?

The golden principle that determines Israel's moral advantage is the limitation of the use of force.

We do not take life when there is no operational need.

Not from convicted murderers, nor from terrorists.

Biting lips, but not killing.

This week, Avigdor Lieberman was interviewed on the radio, and explained that other democratic countries also execute - Japan, the United States.

that we are allowed to take an example from them.

But the truth is that the trend in the world is the opposite: the direction is to reduce the death penalty and fight for its abolition in countries where it is still carried out.

Mochash protests against the legal reform, photo: Reuters

They say about the legal reform that it will change the system of our regime and change the face of Israel.

I think enacting the death penalty for terrorists would do this in a more radical way.

I'm not sure she'll maintain deterrence;

I am almost certain that it will expose Israel to international and political pressures, will set up a new generation of bargaining attacks, will put Israeli society into a whirlwind of conscience and will weaken its moral strength

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Source: israelhayom

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