More meddling in Israel’s business: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed “concern” over “Israel’s judicial reform and its plan to impose a death penalty for terrorism.” No other country endures — or would put up with — the kind of meddling from the international community that Israel endures on a regular basis. Israel could behave in a similar way and justifiably criticize, for instance, the suicidal immigration policies of globalist countries, as these policies directly affect Jews. Jihadists have found an easy way to infiltrate Western countries. Take, for example, in France: In 2020, a report noted that the World Zionist Organization (WZO) was “working on a plan to bring hundreds of thousands of French Jews to Israel.” The population of Jews in France is roughly 453,000. WZO Vice-Chair Yaakov Hagoel stated that “anti-Semitism is increasing and France is surrendering to jihad….The worsening economic situation, and the growth of radical Islam are creating a one-time opportunity to break down bureaucratic barriers and bring the Jews of France to Israel.”
Even Angela Merkel admitted that year that anti-Semitism was coming to Germany from “refugees or people of Arab origin.”
There is also a genocide of Christians going on in Nigeria. Where are justice-driven meddlers when you need them?
Annalena Baerbock also expressed “concern over the settler vigilante attack against the Palestinian town of Huwara.” But how much has Baerbock and her ilk criticized the Palestinian pay-for-slay program, that rewards jihadists for murdering Jews?
According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
The Palestinian Authority’s legislation and allocations of monthly salaries and benefits rewarding imprisoned and released terrorists, and the families of “Martyrs,” amount to $300 million annually. This financial reward clearly demonstrates the PA’s institutional commitment to sponsoring terror against Israel.
Biden “‘expects’ Israel to prosecute settlers involved in Huwara rampage.” Yet this is the head of an administration that has left the Southern border wide open and left over 800 Americans behind in Afghanistan, along with untold billions of dollars in sophisticated military equipment. Biden doesn’t know his way off a stage. But his failures are not enough to prevent him from pontificating to Israel.
Those who oppose the reforms assert that “Netanyahu’s nationalist allies want to weaken the Supreme Court to establish more settlements on land the Palestinians seek for a state.”
The obsession with Palestinians is a result of a successful propaganda campaign. Biden’s ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, recently declared: “I spend 60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people” instead of looking out for American interests.
In January, Newsweek referenced the “cries” of Israel’s critics over judicial reform as “alarmist, hyperbolic, and simply lacking in historical context,” and stated that Israel’s judicial reform “will strengthen its democracy.”
Israel’s critics, including Annalena Baerbock and Joe Biden, likely won’t discuss what the Israeli reforms are all about; instead, they routinely parrot talking points from Palestinian activists. Chances are that they and other Israel bashers know very little about the reforms.
“German FM worried by Huwara, Israeli judicial reform and death penalty,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2023:
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed her concern over the settler vigilante attack against the Palestinian town of Huwara as well as over Israel’s judicial reform and its plan to impose a death penalty for terrorism.
“Our sympathy…goes out to the victims of the revenge actions, the retaliatory actions in the city of Huwara Houses and cars were set alight, innocent families were left in a state of shock and fear,” Baerbock said, during a joint press conference in Berlin Tuesday with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen.
She sharply condemned the two Palestinian terror attacks in the West Bank on Sunday and Monday that claimed three Israeli lives, but she also spoke out against the retaliatory attack against Huwara on Sunday night, during which a Palestinian man was killed.
“Such acts of retaliation and revenge have further aggravated the already tense situation and the responsible people have to be brought to justice. There has to be a chance an opportunity for justice to be done,” Baerbock said.
She also raised the issue of Israel’s pending judicial overhaul, a reform process that Western allies worry could weaken Israeli democracy.
“I do not want to hide the fact that we here abroad do have concerns regarding some legislative projects in Israel. Amongst the values that we shared are the principles of the rule of law, such as an independent judiciary,” she said.
Baerbock expresses opposition to terrorist death penalty bill
She added to this the pending legislation that would allow Israel a country that has used the death penalty once in its history, and that was against Adolf Eichmann, to impose capital punishment on terrorists in some cases.“We oppose the death penalty from the depth of our beliefs and we raise that issue everywhere we go in the United States and Japan, just as much as in Saudi Arabia and Iran,” she said.
Many countries are ending that cruel practice which does not sufficiently act as a deterrent, she said.
Even school children learn that Israel does not support the death penalty even in cases of terror, she said…..
somehistory says
God gave the Law…”a life for life, soul for soul,” and the Bible says that a man ‘who takes a life, forfeits his own,’
“New King James Version Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man. ”
when someone decides to be a terrorist, that one must answer for any blood he sheds, and if there is only one victim or if there are multiple victims, the blood shed must be answered by his own blood being shed.
Pinkdragon99711 says
I am in complete agreement with the shedding of blood for the terrorist. Terrorists should pay for their crimes against humanity, and I think lobbing off their heads is fair for the many lives they have taken. However, I personally think they should spend a lot of time in a prison first, that is, in the general population. That way the baby rapists can get what they deserve.
somehistory says
Ok by me. In the U.S., they get plenty of time in prison before they face the final meal and what comes after. If the prison doesn’t have room on the official death row…lot of stuff happens in prisons that is not, shall we say, according to strict law.
Walter Sieruk says
Yes, the those jihadist who are murderers of be they of Hezbollah ,Hamas Islamic Jihad, ISIS and forth should be put to death .
So regarding the subject of Capital Punishment and those people who go outside a protest against the death penalty and holding up signs show the words printed on them “Thou shall not kill”, those four words which are the sixth commandment , Exodus 20:13. are taken form the AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION translation of the Bible of the Ten Commandments . By and large the A.K.J.V.is a good translation yet not a perfect one. For Jewish and Christian scholars who understand the original Hebrew which the Old Testament , some call it the “Older Testament “, of the Bible which was first written in Hebrew, the point the those scholars will inform all who are willing to listen that the word was “Murder”” and not “Kill” in the original Hebrew of which the First Old Testament was written.
There is a vast different between those two words “Killing “and “murder “, for example a dictionary definition of the word “Murder” is “the unlawful and malicious act of killing another person.” In contrast “Killing is defined as “To put to death or to slay”
So the anti-capital punishment people who quote Exodus 20:13 in the A.K.J. V. might also look up that same specific verse in the NEW KING JAMES VERSION and see how it’s put right by reading “ You shall not murder” For in the very next chapter in Exodus 21:12 it reads “He who strikes man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.”
Further, in the New Testament the Bible reader in Roman 13:1-4 that not only are governmental law enforcement forces are ordained by God to hold back and stop the criminal and wicked activities by evil and dangerous men. This also this may extent to the criminal courts which h included punishment for the evil doer. If the Bible student examines more closely the specific verse number four he or she will discover that the scripture even refers to the government executor as type of minister of God to punish such men.
Those vicious dangerous and murderous jihadists , in the light of the Bible, should be put to death.
In conclusion, the people who use their constitutional right to speak out against capital punishment do and should have the right of freedom of speech and expression to let other know how they feel on the subject of capital punishment. Nevertheless, they either don’t know or do know but couldn’t care less that they are misusing the Bible in quoting Exodus 20:13 out of context.
Some of the anti –capital punishment people feel might feel real righteous and pious by quoting that single verse out of the whole Bible , still in spite of the “pious emotions” some of them might have ,they are still misusing the Bible.
In addition to all this, the Bible in is written “Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.” Leviticus 24:17 [N.K.J.V.]
Jon Sobieski says
Annalena Baerbock is a lying progressive. Her ‘facts’ about the death penalty are not true. Sure in schools indoctrination of criticizing the death penalty will probably get you the results your desire. As with any ‘facts’, it all depends on what you ask, where you ask, who you ask and when you ask. As the old saying goes, the statistical analyst asked his employer, “So what do you want the statistics to say?”
Rob (Robin) Blair Harris says
Hapless Germany and its selective amnesia.
Didn’t want German tanks to be used by Ukraine, because of the echo of WW2, yet now criticises Israel for law changes that include capital punishment. Where was that concern for legal process in WW2?
Linde B. says
Let us not forget that Germany has millions of good people who stand with Israel even
if Germany’s politicians just give lip service to Jewish people and to Israel.
Brigitte from Germany says
Thank you.
Yes I stand my whole life long for Israel.
I`m a big supporter of it.
I spend every year money to them too.
And more important;
I pray for Israel and there people. And for peace.
Every day.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Does Germany also condemn Israeli Leftists who tried to mob a salon in Tel Aviv where Sarah Netanyahu was getting her hair done? Israel does have its own Nazis, but they’re not who Western anti-Semites think they are
Yohanan says
On her home Canada, Christine Douglass-Williams is an informative expert. But on Israel, much less so. Not surprising given the closed Horowitz-Spencer standpoint. From my place in West Jerusalem, having moved to Israel more than 40 years ago, I would like to briefly note:
1. The item’s source, the Jerusalem Post newspaper and news site, has gone through many owners and has long fallen in circulation and in balance. For more Israeli perspectives, better to explore a news aggregator, e.g. in google news first set the country edition to Israel(English). See the English and translated editions of two strong major Hebrew newspapers at ynet -com (Yidiot) and the haAretz -com site (not their -co-il Hebrew sites). Haaretz is partly behind paywall.
2. Yes our judicial system requires fixes and reforms, but not this so called “judicial overhaul” which shreds the last separation of powers, checks and balances, and gives authoritarian, corrupting, dictatorial power to a simple 61-majority of 120-member Knesset.
3. As for capital punishment for terrorists – which Itamar Ben-Gvir the populist, militant Kahanist new minister of police calls for – many Israeli security figures say such execution would be counterproductive in major ways.
4. Countries interact overtly and covertly. Many Israelis welcome the advice and intervention of friendly countries, especially those on whose aid or trade we depend such as USA and Germany. This major political crisis, this major slide away from democracy, comes on Israel’s flawed electoral system and sharp divisions between non-religious, traditional, national (maximal territory) religious, and small but fast growing ultraorthodox Jewish populations and Arabs (reported 21+% within pre-1967 green lines) and growiongly impossible long military control of Arab population of West Bank.
Namer says
Terrorists should never be allowed to live long enough to take another innocents life.
Sam says
A country that put innocents to death only a few years ago shouldn’t be preaching to the children of its victims as if they abide to some higher moral code.