“Extrajudicial killings as policy.” By Cara Marianna

The Israelis are giving themselves the right to execute without trial anyone they regard as “terrorists.” From Cara Marianna at thefloutist.substack.com:

Murder codified in ‘law.’

The moment of surrender. Jenin, 27 November. (Screenshot, social media.)

1 DECEMBER—Video documentation raced like wildfire through the West Bank last Thursday, showing Israel security forces shooting two unarmed Palestinians in the city of Jenin. Muntaser Billah Abdallah, 26, and Yousef Asaasah, 37 were shot at close range after having surrendered and while lying on their stomachs.

The crime, unusually shocking even by Zionist standards, was widely reported in Arab and Western media. Outrage was duly expressed. Lost in the noise and, so far as I can tell, overlooked entirely by all those reporting on it, was a series of recent events leading up to these murders. Taken together, these suggest that extrajudicial murder is now official Israeli policy.

Let us not view these killings in isolation, and certainly not as aberrations. This is what Israeli policy looks like now. The emergence of an explicit policy of summary execution, the imminent codification of this strategy by the Knesset within Israeli law, and the discharge of that policy already under way by Zionist security forces: This is what I address here. And what has not been addressed elsewhere.

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2 responses to ““Extrajudicial killings as policy.” By Cara Marianna

  1. Pingback: “Extrajudicial killings as policy.” By Cara Marianna — Der Friedensstifter

  2. Teevee has Trumpstein cabinet meeting regarding the boat strikes.

    Please the foreigners has went on long enough.

    Reading about comrade Mamdani’s merry comrades with crackpot ideas for NYC, we should’ve kept the faculty lounge in check.

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