Israel’s New Death Penalty Law may Backfire…
Israel has passed a new law to impose the death penalty and conduct public trials for Palestinian combatants involved in the Hamas-led military attacks in October 2023. Ninety three out of 120 Knesset members voted in favour; the remaining 27 (many of them Palestinian citizens of Israel) were absent.
The majority legislation would see the establishment of a special court within the military "justice" system to try the 300 Palestinian fighters captured by the IDF that day (within "Israeli territory") and held in detention since.
Under the legislation, the tribunal will be able to charge the Palestinian combatants with various crimes, including "genocide." This is, of course, absurd considering the fact that it is actually the Israeli PM who is a fugitive, being subject to an ICC international arrest warrant for genocide.
Those convicted of "genocide" charges would be liable for the death penalty.
The truth of the matter, of course, is that the Hamas-led operation was a textbook military operation aiming at Israeli military forces and Israeli border settlements that had a clear Israeli military instrumental role. These kibbutzim and towns are called in Israel "Yeshuvey Sfar," meaning border settlements. They are there for a military and Israeli nationalist purpose. Their objective is to make the Jewish occupation of Palestine a fact on the ground. These settlements are homes for the military, they are a front for the military, they are human shields for the military, their residents are armed, and they are there also to mount psychological warfare on the Arabs, presenting a spectacle of Jewish prosperity and superiority. They have plenty of water, new cars, and freedom to travel. Everything the Gazans lack, they have plenty of.
Needless to mention, every death of a human being, let alone a civilian, is a tragic, regrettable event. However, it is the Israeli government that has been responsible for these border settlement projects since the early 1950s. As such, it is the Israeli government that is first to be blamed for the death of Israeli civilians on 7 October, not Hamas, and certainly not the Hamas combatants, who at no point aimed at civilian deaths, and plenty of evidence and testimony suggests that. It is, of course, the IDF that is responsible for most Israeli civilian deaths on 7 October, by deploying the Hannibal Directive.
Another issue that tormented Israelis in the aftermath of 7 October is the tragic events at the Nova Party. The Israelis referred to the tragic event as "music lovers were murdered for their love of music”. This is, of course, a typical Israeli self-deception exercise. The right questions to be asked regarding the Nova Party are: Whose idea was it to have a sex & drugs rave party next to a concentration camp’s fence? What was the purpose of such a party, and why there? Wasn't it part of Israeli psychological warfare against a starved population that had been, at that point, subject to a twenty-year brutal military siege? If so, weren't the innocent partygoers actually instrumental in the Israeli brutal war machine?
If the SS had set a rave party next to Auschwitz’s fence (they, of course, didn't), and a bunch of Jewish inmates had broken out of the camp, attacked the party, and left some partygoers dead, wouldn't the Jewish inmates be held as eternal Jewish heroes of all time? Wouldn't British and American historians regard the SS party as a "legitimate military target"?
The Israeli new law doesn't take anyone by surprise. We are dealing with a psychotic nation with verified genocidal credentials. The new law is just another example of Hebraic desperation to satisfy a tribal, revengeful nature. The trial and the attempt to kill the combatants will most likely backfire on the Jewish state and its ruler, as it will unveil in court what the Israeli government and Netanyahu have worked tirelessly to hide.
