Israel – The Lod District Court endorsed a plea bargain sentencing two men to an unprecedentedly harsh 30 months in prison for a price tag attack involving arson of Palestinian cars motivated by racism in November 2013.
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The sentence against the two, Yehuda Lansberg and Yehuda Savir of the Gilad Farm outpost, also included a 12 month suspended sentence which kicks in if they commit a similar offense in the next three years and compensatory damages of NIS 15,000 each.
Until recently, those committing price tag attacks were often not even arrested or indicted.
In those cases where they were indicted the sentences were exceedingly lenient.
In one glaring example, in June 2013, a group of right-wing activists who had set up a “war room” to effectively spy on IDF movements in the West Bank to prevent and frustrate IDF actions to demolish or curtail illegal Jewish-built structures was sentenced to mere community service.
But the court and the prosecution, comparatively, threw the book at the two, with Judge Devora Attar stating that “without a plea bargain the punishment would have been far more severe” in order to send an “unambiguous message” and to “deter” future price tag attacks.
The indictment had stated that the two, along with a third man, Binyamin Richter, had set afire multiple Palestinian cars in Farata village.
The case was also unusual as it was part of a new line of cases where price tag attackers have been treated as being part of an illegal organization which the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) can question and hold for more extended periods than police.
The prosecution said that it would continue fighting an uncompromising battle against racism-based crimes.
It added, “the court adopted the factors weighed by the prosecution according to which it should deter and deal harshly with crimes of this kind by imposing extended prison sentences,” while also recognizing that the defendants confessed and expressed regret early on as well as testified against one of their partners, presumably Richter.
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30 months is not nearly long enough for these kind of terrorist attacks by yidden against Palestinians. Such attacks provoke retaliation and put the security forces and other Israelis at great risk and do nothing to deter further violence. Only harsh prison sentences against these fanatical settlers will stop the violence.
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Your naïveté is charming.
These punks are the reason there is violence against Israel? Perhaps you might opens history book and review the vast history of Palestinian terror they extends back 100 years.
This sentence is rather extreme, but as the expression goes, if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.