00:00Israel's new death penalty for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offences against
00:05Israelis has caused outrage around the globe.
00:08The law passed on Monday makes the death penalty by hanging the default punishment for West
00:13Bank Palestinians convicted of nationalistic killings.
00:17Some Israeli residents reacted with anger at the new legislation.
00:21Well, I think it would encourage Palestinians to do more damage.
00:30I don't think it's something Israel will benefit from.
00:37Thinking that someone that is going to die anyway is going to be afraid that someone will
00:42kill him in the end, won't stop him from doing harm.
00:47I'm, as a Jew, an Israeli, ashamed that we have such a minister in Israel.
00:54And I think the thing that he's bringing up, this death penalty, will only harm us.
01:03I think he's entitled, and the right wing in Israel are entitled to their opinion.
01:07I'm entitled to my opinion.
01:11The new bill makes the death penalty a default punishment for nationalistic killings in military
01:16courts.
01:18These courts try only West Bank Palestinians, and not Israeli citizens.
01:27Personally, I'm opposed to the death penalty in general, including for terrorists, regardless
01:33of the reasons for which it is applied.
01:37The act of deciding, once someone has been captured, and no matter what deeds they may
01:42have committed, that another person should put them to death, I am against that.
01:50It is a matter of principle.
01:55The law breaks with Israeli judicial history.
01:58The last person sentenced to death in the country was Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in
02:031962.
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