Jerusalem – Right-wing politicians, including Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and others lined up Sunday to call for the death penalty for 19-year-old Omar al-Abed, the Palestinian terrorist who slaughtered 70-year-old Yosef Solomon and two of his adult children, 46-year-old Chaya and 36-year-old Elad on Friday night in Neve Tzuf.
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Katz and Bennett said that no new legislation would be needed to execute al-Abed. They said the terrorist could be put to death under the framework of existing IDF regulations that provide for putting terrorists to death.
“I call on military prosecutors to demand the death penalty,” Katz said. “We need to exercise that option.”
“The possibility of the death penalty exists in military courts. There is no need for legislation, only a request,” added Bennett.
Since the abolition of the death penalty in 1954, capital punishment has remained on the statutes for war crimes, treason, genocide and crimes against humanity, but the only person to be executed in Israel since then was Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, who was hanged in 1962.
Other right-wing representatives said the events of the past week – the July 14 murder of two Israeli policemen at Lion’s Gate on July 14 and the subsequent placement of metal detectors at entrances to the Temple Mount, followed by a campaign led by Muslim religious leaders in Israel and by MKs from the Joint List party – provide Israel with an opportunity to fundamentally change the rules of engagement.
“[We must fight] terrorists, without worrying about the High Court of Justice or the B’tselem (human rights group), until we have achieved absolute victory. In order to fight terror like this you single it out and fight it until you win. You don’t talk and you don’t negotiate. You beat the as hard as you can until they simply lose the will to fight,” said MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home)
“Any other reaction is nothing more than cowardly surrender to terrorism. I call on the prime minister not to consider surrendering by removing the metal detectors. Rather, he should send the army and all other wings of the security forces with an iron fist to smash the rioters in Jerusalem, the terrorists and their supporters, as well as the people in Judea and Samaria who sent them from,” Smotrich said.
Amen brother!
Well that Maamzer got the death penalty
please my they be successful. long overdue. i say big big consequences to families of terrorists then maybe they’ll be more hesitant
Terrible tragedy!!! Who can contain a 20 yr old bloodthirsty Muslim?? Unfortunately nobody! Hang him stone him, and? These people wont come back. Get the H out of the Temple Mount and for that matter all these settlmns so we dont feed into these animals. Stop the detectors! How many lives have to get lost? U think anothr crazed Muslim wont be tempted?? Israel is asking for it. Its too bad when ur dealing w monsters at ur side. U cant install new typa things to enfringe them. Theyre gonna bite it off. The question is with how many dead??
ALL terrorist convicted of murder automatic death penalty within 30 days of conviction. No pussy footing around., He should have been killed on the spot, saves, times, saves expense; and lets the terrorist know they have a death penalty on their head, first time and you are gone
You bet! Jewish blood is not cheap!
Let him languish in solitary confinement in the worst prison Israel has to offer for the rest of his miserable life with no contact with the outside world, no visits no news, no anything until he goes stark raving mad and commits suicide. A fitting end. Executing him will only serve to make him a martyr to the other arab garbage. destroy the homes of all his relatives, mother father, brothers sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents none to be spared, if they have cars do the same. leave them homeless and penniless. That will send a powerful & meaningful message to the others.
Israel will execute a murdering terrorist??
Not in our lifetimes
The pathetically weak, tolerant, Israeli govt who cares more what France and Brazil think than they do of jewish lives don’t even think on those terms
It’s time to realize the failure of the Israeli army and it’s security forces in protecting jewish lives
#7 is a joke if he thinks he can suffer in a Zionist jail. The Zionists particularly bibi care more about norwaysopinion thank Jewish lives
The savages aren’t afraid to die. What might serve as a deterrent though, would be threatening to wrap their bodies in pigksin…. But Israel would never do that because it’s not politically correct and the anti Semitic world would be in an uproar.