And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him any thing, lying in wait, so that he died;or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meeteth him (Numbers 35:20-21)
Israeli Knesset member Ayelet Shaked, of the right-wing Bayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party, called for the implementation of the death penalty on Monday, according to Arutz 7. She said the measure was necessary to ensure that terrorist murderers are “never released.”
At a protest at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv against the release of 26 terrorists that the government did indeed set free late last night, Shaked said that the only way to guarantee that the government did not use terrorists who killed Israelis and Jews as “negotiation cards,” as was currently happening, was to kill the terrorists.
The full list of prisoners that were released was made public on the Israel Prisons Service website on Sunday night, which revealed that 17 terrorists who were convicted of murdering Israelis, including three who axed to death senior citizens.
“The State of Israel does not know how to keep terrorists in prison,” Shaked said. “Unfortunately we have no choice but to ensure that murderers, like those who killed the Fogel family, who killed a three month old and his parents, are never released.”
The only way to do that was to eliminate the terrorists, she declared.
Shaked was referring to the massacre in June 2011 of five members of the Fogel family of Itamar: father Ehud (Udi) Fogel, mother Ruth Fogel, and three of their six children – Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, the youngest, a three-month-old infant. The Fogel family’s murderers are still in prison, but Shaked said she would not be surprised if they were released in a future negotiation deal or Israeli “gesture” to the PA.
“The only way to solve this is with a death penalty,” she said, pointing out that “The law is already on the books, as the IDF has the right to execute terrorists. We just need to make sure the law is implemented in extreme circumstances.”
