Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Nicole Johnston and you're listening to 7am.
Chapter 2: What new law has Israel passed regarding the execution of Palestinians?
Israel's passed a new law to execute Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks. It passed through the country's parliament, despite the opposition of both Israeli and international human rights groups, as well as the UK, Germany, France and Italy. Israel's National Doctors' Union has refused to carry out lethal injections, so those convicted will face death by hanging.
The government argues the law will deter future Palestinian attacks, and some right-wing Israeli politicians wore noose-shaped pins in parliament. Today, Israeli journalist Amira Hass from the daily newspaper Haaretz on capital punishment, settler violence and expanding settlements in Palestine. It's Tuesday, April 14.
Chapter 3: How do human rights groups view the new death penalty law in Israel?
This week, Palestinians protested a new Israeli law that expands the death penalty for killings classified as acts of terrorism. Human rights groups say the law is expected to apply exclusively to Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank.
Amira, you've lived in the West Bank for almost 30 years. Could you start by explaining to us what this new death penalty law is? And why are some experts saying it'll be used against Palestinians, but not Israelis who are convicted of similar crimes?
Look, you don't need experts to know that this law only applies to Palestinians. First of all, Israeli Jews who live in the West Bank are under Israeli civil law, not military law. And if they commit a felony or a crime, they are being prosecuted in Israeli civil courts, not military courts. So this is one thing.
The second thing is that in Israel proper, the Israeli civil court is mandated to sentence to death anybody who committed the crime of murder and terror in the intent to deny the existence of Israel, of the state of Israel. And this is kind of a code, a euphemism for saying that this is Only a Palestinian can intend such a thing and not a Jew.
And the government of this state are boasting about the law that they have passed or have accepted, this law of death penalty.
So how would these executions be carried out?
By hanging. Those convicted have to be hanged within 90 days without the possibility of an appeal. The guards of the Israeli prison service are supposed to hang them. They will be there and they will be hooded. Their faces will be covered. They will not be seen by the doctors who will be present or the other officials that will be present. They will not be known or seen.
But if you look at the wording of the text, it talks about those convicted of killing Israelis with the, quote, intent to negate the existence of the state of Israel, meaning it won't apply to extremist Israelis who kill Palestinians like we've been seeing recently in the West Bank, for example.
This law was passed through the Israeli Knesset by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ruling coalition. How are they justifying the law and how much support for it is there in wider Israeli society?
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Chapter 4: What implications does the law have for Palestinians versus Israelis?
And they've also made it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land. Israel's cabinet on Sunday voted in favor of beginning a process of land registration for the first time since 1967. So what's happening there now? All of the same and more than that.
And actually, what is happening since before October 7, but more so after October 7, is the carrying out of the execution of a plan that the Israeli Minister of Finance now, and he is also in the Ministry of Defense, this is Bezalel Smotrich, and in his plan, which he calls the decisive plan,
He gave Palestinians three options after stating that Palestinians will never be allowed to exercise their national rights inside the land between the river and the sea.
When I published the decisive plan, and later another chapter about Gaza, I wrote that we would have to conquer Gaza.
One is to accept this reality of no national rights and that there will actually be second or third or fourth or fifth grade subjects in Israel, greater Israel between the river and the sea. The second option, the one that he prefers, is that they will emigrate outside of the country.
And the third option, if they rejected the two first ones, is that the army and the Israeli security authorities will show them we know how to deal with them.
We will settle Gaza, we will apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, yes, and we will encourage the emigration of the enemy out of here. There is no other solution.
Now, on top of this, about half a year ago, he came out with a map. He showed a map of the West Bank with six enclaves. These six enclaves, if I'm not mistaken, comprise 18% of the land of the West Bank. And that's where Palestinians are supposed to be. And this is the process which is happening now. Palestinians are being chased out of the majority
of the territory of the West Bank into those enclaves, which means he is creating smaller Gaza strips in the West Bank, which are supposed to be densely populated by Palestinians. No land, no agriculture, nothing will be just... Six huge, how could I call it, concentration camps. People will hang me for this.
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