'Palestinians' call for death penalty for broker of seven buildings sold to Jews in 'east' Jerusalem
One night in the summer of 1964, we came home and found a delegation of neighbors on the doorstep of our Natick, Massachusetts home. I was a little kid at the time, but I heard afterward what had happened. Our family was moving to Newton - another Boston suburb which is closer in - and my parents had sold our house to a black family. The neighbors were furious and wanted to buy the house to keep the neighborhood lily white. Yes, in Blue Massachusetts. My father z"l (of blessed memory) told them where to get off.
I think of that story every time I hear a story like this one.
Under police guard, Jewish families moved into seven buildings in the 'east' Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan - right outside the Old City - on Tuesday, as the former owners of the building and the broker who sold them fled, and a 'Palestinian Authority' official called for the
death penalty for the broker.
In the latest case, all of the homes were purchased legally by Elad via
intermediaries, usually Palestinian brokers who buy the properties from
local families at inflated prices.
At one house, Khaled Karaeen,
62 and a father of six, sat with his head in his hands in the courtyard
of his home, edgily flicking worry beads, unable to believe what had
happened.
Relatives said one of Karaeen's sons had sold a
dwelling inside the grounds of the family home to a Palestinian broker
about a year ago for 1.2 million shekels ($300,000), around twice as
much as the property was probably worth.
Karaeen refused to
speak to visitors on Tuesday, with family members saying he was too
ashamed by what his son had done. Karaeen's brother said he had spoken
by phone to the son, who had fled to the north of Israel.
In the past, Palestinians found to have sold their homes to settler organizations have been killed.
The
broker had then sold the apartment to Elad, which then rented it out to
the Jewish residents, who moved in during the early hours of Tuesday
morning with the help of Israeli police.
The Jewish family, which
declined to be interviewed, had barricaded themselves inside, blocking a
yellow door that opens onto Karaeen's courtyard. Karaeen sat three
meters (10 feet) away.
I was going to make a sarcastic remark about how giving the 'Palestinians' a 'state' would make them more willing to live among Jews. Alas, even that remark is out of place.
"They want to make a joke of us," said Fadi Maragha, a local
representative of the Palestinian political party Fatah, who said he had
come to offer support to the family.
"They think they can drive
us out. But we are the landowners. We were here and we will be here
until we have all of Palestine without any Jewish people in it," he
said.
Asked what would happen to the son and the broker to whom
he had sold the property, Maragha said he felt they should die, but he
did not expect that to happen.
"We know who the broker is. He's
living in a town south of Jerusalem," he said. "But he's rich and he's
protected, including by the Israelis."
Funny. I once owned a home in New Jersey and I sold it 23 years ago. Does that mean I'm not the landowner there anymore? Or would the 'Palestinians' still consider me the landowner? Hmmm.
Labels: Arab land sales to Jews, death penalty, death threats, East Jerusalem, Silwan
Israel needs a death penalty for terrorists
Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett really thinks he accomplished something this morning. Bennett managed to push a bill through the cabinet - not the full government or the Knesset - which would allow the courts to sentence really heinous murderers to
life in prison without parole. When (and if) such a sentence is pronounced, it would take away from the President the power to pardon those murderers (presumably terrorists), which is a necessary prerequisite for the disgusting exhibition of released 'Palestinian' murderers on our television screens and radio waves.
The law, which received the cabinet's recommendation by a vote of 15 –
6, would allow courts to stipulate in sentencing a clause saying that
the president will not – as is the case today – have the powers to
commute the sentences.
The cabinet also agreed that the Defense
Minister will be directed to apply this law to the military courts in
Judea and Samaria as well.
...
Economy Minister Naftali
Bennett said the bill "puts an end to the 'get out of jail free' card
for murderers, which exists only in Israel.
"If Israel can't stand
by basic morality, which dictates that murderers should die in prison,
then from now on there won't be a choice," the Bayit Yehudi leader
added. "If this law existed earlier, then maybe many murderers would
have understood that it doesn't pay to kill Jews."
Bennett also called the legislation a "Zionist response" to the Hamas-Fatah unity government.
The
bill does not ban the president from pardoning and releasing terrorist
prisoners who have already been sentenced to life in prison.
Maybe if the law had existed before it might have helped. Maybe. But in the meantime, there are still thousands of 'Palestinian' murderers in jail who can 'legally' be released as part of a 'gesture.' And there is no guarantee that any judge will use this label to prevent the terrorists' release down the road. How many judges have been willing to label crimes by Knesset members whose name is not Aryeh Deri or Ehud Olmert 'crimes of moral turpitude' to prevent them from running for office again for the next ten years (yes, that one is on the books too).
Here's betting that the only murderers to whom this law will ever be applied are Jews (if they can find a retroactive exemption they'll apply it to Yigal Amir - not that I expect him to be released anyway).
Tsur also emphasized that the bill does not only apply to terrorists or murder motivated by nationalism.
"All
murder is detestable and there are extraordinary cases…in which we
should prevent the murderers from being able to receive a pardon, which
is unjust," he explained. "The bill strengthens judges' authority by
creating an additional level of punishment between life in prison and
death sentences, which do not exist in Israel. This will increase
deterrence and a sense of personal security for all citizens."
Even Amir 'Comrade' Peretz can see right through this one.
"The bill only applies to future murders and not those who are in
prison now. Therefore, it will not bring deterrence. Rather, it will
damage Israel's image and diplomatic standing, because the government
is afraid to govern and is giving the responsibility to someone else
[the courts]," Peretz stated.
Well, yeah, but Peretz is the guy who wants to negotiate Marwan Barghouti's release.
Terror victims head Meir Indor got it right.
Almagor Terror Victims Organization director Lt.-Col. (res.) Meir
Indor pointed out that the "the bill as it currently reads does not
include thousands of murderers that were already sentenced...and could
be released in future negotiations and gestures.
"In order to
solve the problem, hundreds of bereaved families with Almagor demand to
have the bill apply to terrorists who are already in prison, including
those who are on the list for the fourth round [of prisoner releases
in the last round of negotiations]," he said.
But Naftali Bennett is
full of pride about this bill. Here's what he wrote on Facebook.
"This moment, the government approved the law against releasing
terrorists," Bennett wrote. "Today, we end the 'murder deal' - a deal
which exists only in Israel. Under the new law, [terrorists convicted
of] serious acts of murder could see the judge give them a life sentence
without the possibility of parole."
If only.... There's only one answer for terrorists. There's only one thing that's permanent, forever. The death penalty. That's what terrorists deserve and that's the only thing that has half a chance of deterring them.
Labels: Amir Peretz, death penalty, Marwan Barghouti, Naftali Bennett, Palestinian terrorism, Palestinian terrorists, terror victims
Will they be the next ones released?
Young cousins
Hakim and
Amjad Awad have just started serving five consecutive life sentences apiece for the
cold blooded murder of Udi and Ruti Fogel and three of their children HY"D (May God Avenge their blood) in the Samarian village of Itamar this past March. They are not part of the terrorists for Gilad trade, but the way these things go, they could be part of the next deal, God forbid. Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) would like to make sure that doesn't happen. He wants the Awad cousins to be
put to death now.
The Samaria Military Court convicted 18-year-old Hakim Awad for the murder of the five members of the Fogel family – three children aged between 3 months and 11 years, and their parents, Ehud and Ruth.
Ajmad Awad, the other man who has been charged with the killings in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, pleaded guilty at the beginning of October to five counts of murder.
“I don’t regret what I did, and would do it again,” Awad told reporters in May.
“I’m proud of what I did and I’ll accept any punishment I get, even death, because I did it all for Palestine.”
Israel has only carried out the death penalty in the case of one prisoner, Adolf Eichman.
The best way to make sure there are no more kidnappings is to kill the terrorists,
not the hostages.
Labels: Amjad Awad, death penalty, Fogel family massacre, Hakim Awad, Itamar
Selling land to Jews is punishable by death
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
Here's a story about a 'Palestinian' who was murdered because he was accused of selling a house to Jews. Yes, selling land to Jews here is punishable by death. What are the odds of your hearing that from the Western mainstream media?
Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: Arab land sales to Jews, death penalty
70-year old 'Palestinian' jailed for selling land to Israel... in 1981!
A Nablus court sentenced a 70-year old 'Palestinian' man (not the one pictured) to ten years in jail on Tuesday for selling land to Israelis...
in 1981.
He violated the Article 114 of the [Jordanian] Penal Code of 1960 number 16, which prohibits selling land to "the enemy," with "the enemy" specifically defined elsewhere as "any man or judicial body [corporation] of Israeli citizenship living in Israel or acting on its behalf."
After Jordan's peace treaty with Israel, this law was revised, but the Palestinian Arabs still use the 1960 Penal Code - even though they have a draft law to replace it with a similar law mandating the death penalty for anyone selling land to "the occupier."
But just give them a 'state' and they'll get rid of all those laws like that one.
Labels: Arab land sales to Jews, death penalty, Palestinian
