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Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right allies.

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The law makes the death penalty -- by hanging -- the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted for nationalistic killings. https://to.pbs.org/4rXhkpf

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Mar 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM

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"Israel abolished the death penalty for murder in 1954. The only person executed in Israel after a civilian trial was Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, in 1962.

Military courts in the West Bank can already sentence Palestinian convicts to death but have not done so.

The measure was promoted by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister who wore noose-shaped lapel pins in the run-up to the vote.

"This is a day of justice for the murdered, a day of deterrence for enemies," Ben-Gvir said in parliament. "Whoever chooses terror chooses death."

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Israeli Rwingers in Knesset Celebrate the New Law:

www.youtube.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-30 06:28 PM | Reply

JFC.

Of course hanging is the best way to execute these Muslims.

Muslims don't eat pork.

This is ethnic cleaning two or three at a time that will provide fresh untainted organs unharmed by bullets or poison gas for harvest. .

The younger the Palestinians, the better.

Source: www.theguardian.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 06:50 PM | Reply

"deliberately or through indifference, from a motive of racism or hostility against a population, and with the aim of harming the State of Israel and the national revival of the Jewish people in its homeland " shall be sentenced to death,"

A good lawyer, not moder8 or Etal, could make the case this would also apply to Israeli's harming the State of Israel, by attacking "palestinians".

Of course hanging is the best way to execute these Muslims.

Goes without saying.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-30 07:11 PM | Reply

Israeli Rwingers in Knesset Celebrate the New Law
~ CorkyFromOcala

Why wouldn't everyone celebrate it?

The idea is to get rid of terrorism, they don't want the terrorist getting out and committing more terrorism, like they do in the US.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-30 07:12 PM | Reply

Well, they could have just gone all Chinese and starved them to death.

Even their own people, by the millions. Perhaps you should just stfu every time you get the urge to show your brilliance, eh?

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-30 07:34 PM | Reply

The idea is to get rid of terrorism, they don't want the terrorist getting out and committing more terrorism, like they do in the US.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut

Odd. I remember Trump pardoning J6ers and releasing 5,000 Taliban in Afghanistan.

Take Israel's balls out of your mouth.

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-03-30 07:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Just a reminder about justice:

In 1960, the Israeli Mossad abducted Argentina resident Adolf Eichmann for crimes this German citizen perpetrated in Poland and then was tried, convicted, and executed in Israel, a country that did not exist during the commission of those crimes against humanity, the Holocaust.

This falls under "universal jurisdiction" which NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani can implement when he orders the NYPD to arrest ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. The Queens or Manhattan DA would seek a bench warrant based on the INTERPOL Red Notice for Netanyahu.

Once the warrant is issued, the NYPD ESU will then arrest Netanyahu. Once detained, the ICC will be notified and the NYPD and ICC will arrange the defendant's extradition to the Hague.

Lastly, a few years ago a young Irish peacekeeper in UNIFIL got separated from his convoy at night and ended up in a Lebanese village. Thinking the vehicle was Israeli, the village residents began pelting it with rocks and stones. An individual then opened fire on the vehicle, killing the poor guy.

When Lebanese Hezbollah found out what happened, within two weeks they found the man responsible for killing Private Sean Rooney and handed the suspect over to Lebanese Army G2 for prosecution on the charge of murder.


#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 08:02 PM | Reply

They should take a page from Islam. Behead or stone them.

#8 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 08:11 PM | Reply

How Israel is allowed to participate in the Olympics, FIFA, and Eurovision, while Russia and Belarus are not, staggers the imagination.

The hypocrites are finally being exposed, but this is too little, too late.


#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 08:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

- Behead

At least you got what 1Nut didn't; that the method of death, the cruelty and the theatre, is the point.

Perhaps you also know that in the Story, it's the Fallen Church in the End Times that beheads those who don't take the Mark of Mr Beast, er, I mean, Beast.

So, Trumpers.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-30 08:18 PM | Reply

static.timesofisrael.com

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 08:21 PM | Reply

We need to divest ourselves from this vile regime

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-30 08:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Bomb Israel Today,in Solidarity with Iran.

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-30 08:53 PM | Reply

They should take a page from Islam. Behead or stone them.
#8 | Posted by rf4b

Thus showing the world how they're better than the people who behead and stone their enemies!

Were you this bloodthirsty when you were 21? Or did something happen when you got old?

Genuinely curious what happens to old white men.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 09:26 PM | Reply

#12

We need the radical Jews to balance out the Islamic nutcases over there.

#15 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 09:33 PM | Reply

#14

We get sarcastic, snoofy. Surprised you missed it.

#16 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 09:35 PM | Reply

You vehemently support the death penalty, so that's why it's not correct to call it sarcasm.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 09:37 PM | Reply

We need the radical Jews to balance out the Islamic nutcases over there.
#15 | Posted by rf4b

LOL.
You don't understand the chicken and egg scenario here.
Jews came first, by about 3500 years.

You're one of those people who thinks your "jokes" doesn't tell us your agenda.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 09:40 PM | Reply

#17

Prove it, liar.

#19 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 09:47 PM | Reply

#18

And what agenda would that be?

#20 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 09:49 PM | Reply

And what agenda would that be?
#20 | Posted by rf4b

Oh, you mean don't have one?
You can't put into words what you want to achieve through lashing out?

I see you thought this through as much as Trump.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 09:51 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#17
Prove it, liar.
#19 | Posted by rf4b

Your own words can do that for us.
Do you support the death penalty?
Yes, no, of you're a ----- who won't answer.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 09:52 PM | Reply

#21

I come here mainly for the comedy. You're funny when you're being a drama queen.

#23 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 10:10 PM | Reply

#22

No

#24 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-03-30 10:10 PM | Reply

Why in the world wouldn't you support the death penalty?

You can't be serious.

A MAGA Republican who doesn't support the Death Penalty is like a Democrat woman without a penis.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 10:18 PM | Reply

I come here mainly for the comedy.
#23 | Posted by rf4b

Being a clown, I guess you always get what you want.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 10:19 PM | Reply

What do you expect in an ethnonationalist set-up where the claim to the places taken and lives destroyed is based on the "Word of God"?
Seriously?

#27 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-03-31 05:17 AM | Reply

It's the end of the world as know it ...

And I feel fine.

Lenny Bruce is not afraid. But then again he's dead so..

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-31 11:06 AM | Reply

What is Iranian punishment for being gay?

#29 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-03-31 11:51 AM | Reply


What is Iranian punishment for being gay?
#29 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

There are no gays in Iran, its a human biological oddity.

#30 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-31 11:59 AM | Reply

Re 30

You cannot admit to being gay in Iran.

Big difference.

#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-31 12:03 PM | Reply

Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit".
www.youtube.com

#32 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-31 12:03 PM | Reply

Do you support the death penalty?

What civilized country wouldn't? Its much better than kin justice which is where the US is headed.

Given the broad spectrum of behaviors, a very small minority of them can't be tolerated. Breaking the social contract and killing another human being without provocation would be one of the reasons.

In the US I see Black men and women hitting asians (sometimes dying) without provocation and getting no significant jail time.

Is this a 1st world country? or 3rd? Having no consequences just increases the uncivilized behavior.

I get it you aren't Asian so perhaps it doesn't affect you. But, I would imagine you can have empathy and see it does affect my Asian community.

#33 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-31 12:06 PM | Reply

You cannot admit to being gay in Iran.

Not what the their President said....
youtu.be

You're going to need to prove your assertion.

#34 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-31 12:08 PM | Reply

"Not what the their President said...."

And you actually believe him?

lol

#35 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-31 12:15 PM | Reply

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