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In 2003, Limor Son Har-Melech was 7 months pregnant and driving home with her husband, Shalom, an ambulance driver, when Islamic terrorists attacked them. The car rolled over, killing her husband and injuring Limor. Seriously injured, the 24-year-old mother survived. So did her newborn daughter. Limor, still carrying the scars of the attack, married again, had children and decided to run for public office in Israel to protect others from what she had suffered.
Last year, MK Limor, a member of the Knesset, was stunned to learn that her husband’s killer was being freed as part of the disastrous deal trading 2,000 Islamic terrorists for hostages.
“This morning I woke up to the news that the terrorist who murdered my husband was released in a deal – no one told us about it,” she said.
So she sponsored a new bill, the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’. The bill calls for the “death penalty” for anyone “who intentionally caused the death of a person in an act of terrorism”.
The bill was supported by family members of the victims of Islamic terrorist attacks in Israel.
Deborah Gonen, the mother of Danny Gonen, a young man murdered in a terrorist attack, who founded the ‘Choosing Life Forum’ to stop terrorist funding, endorsed the bill, saying, “We, the bereaved families, demand the death penalty so that there will be no more victims like my son Danny.”
Haim Smadar, a Jewish refugee from the Muslim world working as a security guard, and a father of deaf children, died stopping an Islamic terrorist from blowing up in a supermarket, telling him, “You are not coming in here. You and I will blow up here.”
“I call on all Knesset members to vote for this bill, as it saves lives, stopping those who are coming to kill us again and again,” his son said.
Eliyahu Libman, who lost his brother in a terrorist attack, and who lost his son, a security officer who was saving lives at the Nova festival, on Oct 7, declared that “a terrorist “doesn’t deserve to live after he took the lives of others. And I say this from my personal experience.”
“The killers of my brother were freed in the Shalit deal (during which over 1,000 Islamic terrorists were released in exchange for one hostage). They killed my son and all the others. The terrorists want to kill and go on killing. When they are executed, it saves many lives.”
When an Islamic terrorist burst into the Solomon home on the Sabbath, the family were celebrating the birth of their grandson. The terrorist stabbed to death the 70-year-old grandfather, Michal Solomon managed to hustle her three children, including two infants, into a room and held the door against the attacker. Her husband was murdered.
Dan Landau, Michal’s father, endorsed the bill saying, “Enough with terrorists who get vacations, enough with terrorists who receive good conditions in prison. It’s time they pay the full price for the blood they spilled.”
The parents of Rita Gusak, 21, murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova musical festival on Oct 7, spoke out in favor of the bill.” The terrorist standing before us doesn’t even try to hide it — he proudly publishes it and documents it.”
“I am in favor of the death penalty law for terrorists, because they murdered my father,” the son of Meir Lixenberg, a murdered father of 5, said.
Many other family members also spoke out in favor of a death penalty for terrorists.
However, once the bill was signed, it was immediately condemned by European governments and a social media campaign based on lies was quickly whipped up, claiming that the bill was racist because it would execute Arab Muslims rather than Jews. All of that is completely false.
The bill only applies to non-citizen terrorists who live under military jurisdiction. It doesn’t apply to Israeli citizens, Jews or Arabs, or whatever their religion may be. The legal basis for this is much the same as the Article III military tribunals that were used in Gitmo after 9/11.
Media and social media accounts chose to completely ignore MK Limor Son Har-Melech, whose bill it was, because her story was too sympathetic, in favor of retweeting a brief clip from a Hamas-linked account, featuring Itamar Ben Gvir, a leader of her party, celebrating the bill.
There was no mention that the bill had come from a survivor of terrorism, that it had been championed by family members of terror victims, or that it was made necessary by disastrous hostage deals like the Shalit deal and the Hamas hostage deal which freed thousands of Islamic terrorists to kill again and which incentivized future attacks and future hostage taking.
The European Union claimed that the bill was “deeply concerning” because “the death penalty is a violation of the right to life”. The terrorists facing the death penalty violated the right to life of others and will do so again if they are set loose. As the EU would indeed like to see happen.
The UK, French, Australian and German governments claimed that the bill was “discriminatory” and would undermine “Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles”, contending that “the death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect.” If their countries had the death penalty, their crime rate wouldn’t be out of control.
The UK has resorted to banning kitchen knives rather than cracking down on criminals.
France last executed a Muslim pimp by guillotine in 1977 for running a sex grooming gang and kidnapping, torturing and strangling a French woman to death. Imagine if France were willing to do that today. And would thousands of girls have been raped in the UK if the Pakistani Muslim sex grooming gangs knew that they faced not a cushy few years in prison, but death?
European foreign ministers have had little to say about Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Brunei and Mauritania’s Islamic death penalties for gay people. They don’t mind when Muslim countries kill gay people in the name of Islam, only when Christians and Jews stand up to Islamic terrorism.
The ‘Palestinian Authority’ has a law on the books calling for the death penalty for their own people who sell land to Jews. And there are of course no objections to that racist decree.
Israel has lived through generations of Islamic terror and genocide. Only now, after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, did it pass a death penalty bill. The law will almost certainly be blocked by Israel’s leftist supreme court and terror victims will be denied justice. Islamic terrorists will get fake life sentences that only last until the terrorists take a hostage.
If opponents of the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’ had a legitimate argument to make, they wouldn’t have to lie about the bill, distort it, hide who it came from and who supports it. But the Left wants to pretend that it’s humane and decent even as it unleashes terrorists who stab, rape and kill their victims while running them through a revolving door system that rewards terrorism.
Limor Son Har-Melech refused to give up when the car rolled over and she lost her husband. Her courageous fight to hold Islamic terrorists accountable should be an example to us all.
We sure could use a ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill’ in this country. Because the terrorists will simply kill again the moment after they released from prison. And the judges who release this vermin should be made accessories after the fact.
What? Too harsh for the Boasbergs and the rest of the Obama/Biden appointees. Too effing bad.
I would not want to base ANY decisions or feelings on the “uproar” from the EU weenies! They will be reaping what they have sown many times over the carnage in Israel. I’m 1000% IN FAVOR of the DEATH PENALTY for ANY TERRORIST! Society needs to realize that there are people who should NOT be in Our Society! Once you’ve shown the propensity for violent crimes that result in the loss of INNOCENT LIVES you should FORFEIT YOUR existence! It really should be that simple! Maybe not punishing murderers or rapists or kidnappers to the ultimate has contributed to the lack of respect for human life! I do hope the New Law results in curtailing the terrorist murders in Israel. But, given the insanity of their “religious attackers”, it might even encourage MORE! Hope Not!
Public hangings or other execution techniques appropriate for convicted terrorists…to hell with the EU, publish the home addresses of supreme court judges so angry citizens can pay a visit…
Imposition of the Death Penalty apparently had no deterrent effect in the UK when in force prior to Sydney Silverman’s intervention
Good logic. Stopping the vicious circle where terrorists are released in prisoner swaps.
What do people not understand about islam? It’s all too easy; black and white. Matter of fact, the term “terrorist” is actually IMPLIED when you hear the word “islam”. Why is that so hard for EU and UK, and even American politicians, to understand?? Oh wait – it’s the $$ that blinds them from the truth – as always.
The hard part is going to be extricating every one of those stinking vermin from our countries and sending them back to where their “religion” originated, but it must be done…
However, while we’re waiting for that to happen, the INTELLIGENT thing to do is to also adopt this same law; instant death penalty – no due process (oh puhleeze! We’re talking about “individuals” who DO NOT respect the rule of law, let alone law enforcement. Why be stupid and give them the same “fairness” that we apply to actual citizens?
But, I digress; that goes into a whole “nother ball of wax. We have to protect our own, and islamics are NOT our own; not in Europe, not in UK, not in America, and certainly not in Israel…
The law is simple; break it, and you pay.
“Once the bill was signed, it was immediately condemned by European governments.”
For 2 thousand years before Zionism and before creation of Israel, Arabs and all of these people had been obsessed with Jews. They had been lying about Jews, persecuting, murdering, robbing and expelling Jews while screaming “Go back to where you came from.”
Jews returned. Now they are calling Jews “illegal settlers” and are screaming “Go back to Poland!”
Face it. Israel is constantly violating one of the most important human rights. It was a right that humans cherished and enjoyed for millennia. It was the right to attack and murder Jews with impunity.
Israel was created to violate this right. The Israeli Defense Force is denying this right every day by its mere existence. That makes many humans very angry.
P.S. This comment had been banned by The Jerusalem Post.
I thought it already passed into law.
Just like here in the States, I’m so sick of the leftards and the deep state blocking the will of the people every chance they get. They’re not even pretending to do their jobs, i.e., working for us, any more. We need things to move forward without two steps back. Vote the freakiln’ Dims. and RINOs OUT of office. They really need to go.
The Dim. Party needs to be designated as the terror group that it is, dissolved or reformed, and its corrupt members arrested and tried for treason. Any country run by globalists needs to do the same. It’s time to drain all the swamps.
It really should be death by stoning rather than hanging. Every victim of Islamic terror should be allowed to cast a stone. Think of the cathartic effect of ending the life of one of these monsters.
It doesn’t matter that ” the death penalty” might not be a deterrent to perpetrators, what matters is the ” the death penalty” is just retribution for the victims of terrorism. Fundamentally, that is ALL that matters.
Here in the UK, the anti-death penalty crowd know they are hypocrites, the most graphic example being a remark made in 2010. On the advent of the Conservative-Social Democrat alliance government, Kenneth Clarke, one of the Tory big beasts who betrayed Margaret Thatcher, was appointed Secretary of State for Justice. This appointment coincided with the delivery of a report on the state of the prisons by the Probation Service that had been commissioned by the previous Blair government. The report recommended that far more prisoners must be released to stem the overcrowding of the prison system, and that amongst them should be included serial murderers. The new Justice Secretary didn’t simply accept the report in toto, he even commented that the general public was just going to have to live with the fact that more people were going to be murdered.
The Torah got it right. A tooth for a tooth and and eye for an eye. Meaning a punishment must fit the crime. In case of a terrorist killing innocent people death penalty is justifiable punishment. Israel and every civilize nation should have done it long ago.