Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, has called for the execution of Palestinian prisoners to ease overcrowding in the country’s jails.
Writing on social media, he welcomed a decision by the Israeli army to build 936 additional prison places for “security prisoners”. “The additional construction will allow the prison service to take in more terrorists, and will bring a partial solution to the prison crisis that exists in the Shabak,” he said, referring to the Israeli Prison Service.
“The death penalty for terrorists is the right solution to the incarceration problem, until then - glad that the government approved the proposal I brought.”
During a visit by members of the Public Defender’s Office, squalid conditions were noted, including “intolerable overcrowding”, with less than three square metres of space per person, poor sanitary conditions, pest issues, inadequate ventilation, and a lack of basic necessities for the incarcerated.
I wonder if they will concentrate all of the prisoners in one spot before they implement Ben’s solution
With so many prisoners it’s gotta be hard to process all of those death penalties. I wonder if there is a fast and efficient way to apply the death penalty. Maybe they can do it in groups
They could look into repurposing farming equipment and supplies given all the shortages they’re experiencing
He just wants a bit more Living Space.
Israel is going to build camps to concentrate their prisoners.
Nazionists, nazionists everywhere
Western Rulers: Listen, just cause they are building camps and moving Palestinians into them in large quantities just highlights the danger that the poor Israelis are in!
Israel: Starts ordering suspiciously larges quantities of a certain pesticide
Western Rulers: Obviously they are just trying to treat their fields, absolutely nothing wrong here. Nothing to see here, No Criticisms, we Veto the right to criticize or cover this further!
Soon they’ll start sending them to the showers. We’ve seen this before. Fascists never change
Reminder that even West Bank children who couldn’t possibly have any link to Hamas get thrown in jail, by incarcerators able to do whatever the fuck they want because, as they’re jailing people outside of their jurisdiction, and the Palestinian Authority has no means to stop it, they don’t have to answer to anyone.
Just thought you would appreciate the context.
How do they define security prisoners in this context? Is this Gitmo or Aushwitz? Both are war crimes.
Also, you would think these Israeli leaders would be more careful about using the word solution in the context of murdering the fuck out of your political prisoners.
Since Palestinians have no human or civil rights under Israeli Occupation, they can be detained and convicted with no to little evidence. Subject only to military courts they have no fair trial and it’s quite normal to coerce (false) confessions. This includes children.
Military Courts - B’TSelem
Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests - Amnesty International
After spending the morning reading about the history of Zionism and direct quotes from a bunch of those dudes, honestly, your comment sounds like everything is going exactly to plan.
'In 1938, Ben Gurion described the conflict with the Arabs as “in its essence a political one… politically we are the aggressors and they [the Arabs] defend themselves.” Israeli historian Benny Morris affirms Ben Gurion’s description, saying: “Ben-Gurion, of course, was right” and goes on to describe Zionism as “a colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement” whose “ideology and practice were necessarily and elementally expansionist.” Morris describes the Zionist goal of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as necessarily displacing and dispossessing the Arab population. The practical issue of establishing a Jewish state in a majority non-Jewish and Arab region was a fundamental issue for the Zionist movement. Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky described the notion of “transfer” (the Zionist euphemism for ethnic cleansing of the Arab Palestinian population) as a “brutal expulsion” which could resolve this challenge. The idea of transfer was not unique to Revisionist Zionism, in fact, as explained by Morris, “the idea of transferring the Arabs out… was seen as the chief means of assuring the stability of the ‘Jewishness’ of the proposed Jewish State”.
According to Morris, the idea of ethnically cleansing the land of Palestine was to play a large role in Zionist ideology from the inception of the movement. He explains that “transfer” was “inevitable and inbuilt into Zionism” and that a land which was primarily Arab could not be transformed into a Jewish state without displacing the Arab population. Further, the stability of the Jewish state could not be ensured given the Arab population’s fear of displacement. He explains that this would be the primary source of conflict between the Zionist movement and the Arab population.’
Mind you, that’s Wikipedia, but none the less.
Yeah, Transfer has been part of Zionism since 1882. Books by New Historians definitely go into much more detail and sources than any news article.
The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 - Nur Masalha
A History of Modern Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories - Ilan Pappe
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences - Avi Shlaim
The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development - Sara Roy
If they’re talking about murdering their charges, Auschwitz seems like the close comparison.
Never thought I’d see the ‘cycle of abuse’ play out with the fucking Holocaust, jfc
Hurt people hurt peopleGenocided people genocide people.Learning from other peoples’ mistakes/crimes against humanity has never been our strong suit.
The U.S. needs to cut ties with Israel and back away from them. They are not allies. They have been using the U.S. for decades due to our gullible myth-obsessed politicians being heavily lobbied by them. If money were removed from politics, the relationship would dissolve almost immediately.
We get absolutely nothing of value from our relationship with Israel. There is no special strategic advantage as we have bases, NATO countries and allies nearby as well as multiple carrier groups in the Med. Our commerce with them is not special in any way. So, why give them billions a year and stand by their side as they commit genocide and start fights with their neighbors?
We should have no business there except, perhaps, to protect innocent people from genocide.
Good luck running for political office while telling constituents you won’t be supporting Israel.
That’s just how bad things have gotten. We’re not even allowed to fight for what we believe in in a ‘democracy.’
I think many voters’ positions have evolved on Israel now that the world is watching them commit genocide. Voters will now be able to choose which side of genocide they are on.
Obviously conservatives (including neoliberals) will be pro-genocide. But we need to start running candidates that appeal to non-conservative and progressive voters.
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i think we should execute him
This ass hat is a complete troll. He’s like Israel’s Lauren Boebert. Both need to go.
Contrary to Boebert Ben Gvir is a convicted terrorist. In fact he has been indicted 53 times and convicted 7 times.
The real problem: Ben Gvir is a critical part of the coalition that keeps Netanyahu in power, meaning his has significant influence over israel law.
Ben Gvir has faced criminal charges of hate speech against Arabs and was known to have a portrait in his living room of Israeli-American mass murderer and Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron, in the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.
Wow what a piece of shit.
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I could live with this.
“I’m going for a banging fascist ethnostate!”
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So he’s trying to be Himmler.
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The difference is Bobo is a powerless rep that will lose her seat and can’t stay in coalition with anyone while this guy is a minister who if I recall correctly has the portfolio of overseeing all the police in Israel.
It’s a mistake to discount cabinet ministers.
Imagine if Boebert was the director of national security. This guy isn’t just a troll, he is in one of the most powerful political positions in Israel. He has called for the extermination of Palestine and his views are not fringe within Israeli politics.
This ass hat is a complete troll.
Very real chance he gets what he wants. Boebert’s a bomb-flinging dick-sucking freak, but she’s more a part of the theatrical wing of the Republican Party. The MTGs and Ben Sasses are much closer to the center of the party and hold exactly the same views.
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The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
- Joseph Goebbels
What a dick.
Geez they’re literally talking like nazis, no? Aren’t they actually doing things like the nazis did too? This is all like a sick horrific joke. The jews are now like the nazis were. How oxymoronic can you get.
I’m sure I’m late to the party but… clearing throat.
I did Nazi that coming.
Israel (the govt) is acting gross.
