Merged Gaza just launched an unprovoked attack on Israel

[laughing dog]

Technically, unless Hezbollah missed a deadline for weapon turnover or overtly refused to turnover weapons, their intention was not a ceasefire violation at that time. It was bad faith bargaining.

That Jihad guy made it clear they never had the slightest intention of honoring their obligations under the ceasefire deal. And the NPR article is not calling them out for it.

Okay, but that is not a ceasefire violation.

Unfortunately, firing weapons during a ceasefire is a violation.

Not if the other side does not follow their obligations.

. Do you know Hezbollah was not following their obligations at the time Israel opened fire?

And note that this new escalation of hostilities started when Hezbollah started shooting rockets into Israel on behalf of their masters in Tehran. But I guess you view that as fine too?

Wrong again.

Once again, reality debunks your claim.

No it does not. You really have a distorted view of what reality is. No matter what Hezbollah does, you and your fellow leftists always see Israel as the bad guy.

I didn’t say Isreal was the bad guy. And I wrote that Hezbollah negotiated in bad faith if they never intended to honor their promises.

 

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Voices: Israel’s chilling new death penalty is as racist as it is abhorrent

The Netanyahu regime has passed legislation imposing the death penalty on a mandatory basis on Palestinians who commit lethal attacks on Israelis. The death sentence must be carried out within 90 days, by hanging. Whatever one’s views on the death penalty or on Israel, there is something new and chilling about a law that imposes the death penalty only on members of one group and only for killing members of another group.

Israel was, until recently, one of seven countries to have abolished the death penalty for “ordinary crimes”, including murder. But no more. Note that the converse does not hold. If a Jewish Israeli murders a Palestinian, no matter the circumstances, he cannot be executed.
The law imposes the death penalty on persons convicted of fatal terrorist attacks who reside in specifically defined locations defined in the statute as “The Area”. The Area is “Judea and Samaria”, the Israeli locution for the West Bank. In military courts, the death penalty is the “default”; only Palestinians are tried. The law does not require that the prosecution even ask for the death penalty.

The court must impose it if the accused terrorist is tried in a military court, where most such trials occur, although there is the possibility of a life sentence in the event of undefined “special circumstances”. In civilian courts, both Israelis and Palestinians can be tried for terrorist acts, but the law applies only to those who “intentionally cause the death of a person with the aim of denying the existence of the State of Israel” – a definition intended to exclude Jewish terrorists. If there were any ambiguity, the penalty does not apply to Israeli citizens or residents who live in “The Area”, effectively excluding all settlers. In the words of The Times of Israel, the law “effectively enshrines capital punishment for Palestinians alone”.

It is hard to know where to begin with the outrageousness as well as the stupidity of such blatantly hateful and xenophobic legislation. Will this deter Palestinian attacks? Hardly; it will create martyrs. Will this promote the image of Israel as a country governed by the semblance of the rule of law? Will it create support for Israel as a democratic island in an authoritarian desert? Will it create sympathy for Israel or for Jews more generally?