Oh, of course Israel does not sentence people in a court of law. Why waste the money on the appeal and drawn out execution process, why take a chance that the person Israel wants to murder could potentially be found not guilty in a court of when...when they can give the appearance of being anti death penalty, and secretly executing people without a trial...all state sponsored of course. You freely admit Israel executes people, end of story.... That they don't give that person the execute "unofficially" a fair trial, is par for the course of a revenge oriented eye for an eye uncivilized society...
Just the `04 elections cost about 4 billion: http://www.opensecrets.org/pressreleases/2004/04spending.asp If Isreal is covering 60%, they're shelling out two and a half billion dollars in `04 alone. Non presidential years will be cheaper, and nonelection years cheaper yet, but that's still a lot of cash. And that doesn't count all the rest of the stuff the parties do. Websites, polls, hookers, cigars, scotch and drugs cost money too. The odd thing about US national politics is, there is so much stinkin money involved that nobody can afford very much. Even rich jews. That's why most corruption happens at the state, county and city levels. Wanna get a federal bill passed? Better have stacks and stacks (and stacks and stacks) of gold bars. Wanna get some city council to pass a new ordinance? You can carry that amount of cash in your pocket.
Yes, they assassinate dangerous terrorists with blood on their hands whom they cannot safely apprehend. Still grieving for Sheikh Yassin?
So, fundamentally speaking, since state sponsored assassination is a death penalty, this was a lie: "PS As I said in that thread Israel has never in its history used death penalty, not even for convicted terrorists with jewish blood on their hands. Why do you keep embarrassing yourself? Please stop confusing Israel with your ilk and the Israeli legal system with your ilk's extra-judicial executions that you in fact approved."
No it is not. Assassination of foreign terrorists on foreign soil is assassination of foreign terrorists on foreign soil, death sentence in a court of law is death sentence in a court of law. These two concepts have nothing in common. I have no doubt they are identical in the world you live in though so we'll have to agree to disagree.
Hmm... kind of like when you say that your past posts and what you said in them shouldn't bear upon the evaluation of your current posts? That if you contradict yourself, it doesn't mean that you are wrong now?
Israel does have a death penalty for either high treason in a time of war or for crimes against humanity. Adolf Eichmann was executed in israel in 1962. He was the only one that Israel trailed and sentenced to death in the entire short Israel history. As for killing terrorists, either while they drive a car to plan a bombing in a pizzeria in one of Israel cities, or walking their donkey packed with "kassam" rockets to attack the Israel city of "Shderot", or when rolling a wheel chair to discuss the next strategic step of it's terrorist organization, Israel is simple protecting it self. You won't expect a soldier standing in the battle field not to shoot at his upcoming enemy.
You're absolutely correct and this has never been in dispute, Israel does have a death penalty on the books but it's resorted to it only once in their entire history when they executed Adolf Eichmann. Thousands of terrorists in Israeli jails with blood on their hands have not been sentenced to death by Israeli courts, the arab knesset member who's claiming that he may face a death penalty is lying and trying to dramatize his situation.
""PS As I said in that thread Israel has never in its history used death penalty, not even for convicted terrorists with jewish blood on their hands. Why do you keep embarrassing yourself? Please stop confusing Israel with your ilk and the Israeli legal system with your ilk's extra-judicial executions that you in fact approved." Oh, never in its history, but now you admit that was a false statement by you. So Israel assassinates, without a trial, without presenting evidence and having that evidence cross examined, without a chance for the person who is to be murdered to state their case...they simply execute, murder, then rationalize it is as "justice." You are a master of rationalization. If assassination is a good thing, then it would be good when Israelis are assassinated...that is how principles work, if it is a good thing, it is also good for others to do the same thing to you.
For the tenth time, there is nothing in common between the assassination of foreign terrorists on foreign soil and death sentences in Israeli courts. The discussion was not about deaths during wars, traffic accidents or assassinations. The discussion was about the Israeli legal system and about the fact that it has never sentenced people to death until you showed up and made a fool of yourself once again by confusing these totally unrelated concepts. Stop trolling, you're so boring.