The death penalty returns to Israel – podcast
Senior Middle East correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison on a pair of laws recently passed by the Israeli parliament to bring back the death penalty – seemingly only for Palestinians
Earlier this month, Israel’s far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, celebrated his 50th birthday – with a noose-themed cake, and a message written in icing: ‘Sometimes dreams come true.’
As the Guardian’s senior Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, explains, for decades Israel had an effective moratorium on capital punishment. Yet, in the past two months, it has passed two laws around the death penalty – to be applied seemingly only to Palestinians.
المصدر: The Guardian — World Middleeast
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