Got a big Al Aqsa fish in Ramallah today, one who was hiding behind Arafat’s skirts for years.
A senior commander of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades who is responsible for the deaths of several Israelis was arrested in a joint IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Services) operation in Ramallah on Monday.
Officials said that Khaled Shawish, head of the Tanzim in Ramallah, was behind the shooting attack that killed Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane, son of Rabbi Meir Kahane, and his wife Talia in December 2002.
Shawish was also responsible for dozens of other attacks, including suicide bombings in Jerusalem as well as other shooting attacks on roads in the area, that left a total of five Israelis dead and dozens wounded.
Officials said that Shawish, 26, has been wanted by the IDF since 2000 and has spent most of his time in hiding near the Mukata. In 2001, Shawish was wounded during clashes with the IDF.
And because there is no death penalty in Israel except for Nazis, this man will be used as a bargaining chip for a prisoner release at some future date. Oh, well. At least he can’t plan any more terrorist attacks.
Just lock him up and forget where they put him. That way they can’t release him even if they want to.
Alternatively, use the method that Bais Din (or the kings) used when a person merited the death penalty but they did not have two ey witnesses who had warned him before he committed the crime.
For example, give him meat tainted with Mad Cow disease for supper.
That would be a dishonorable thing to do in this day and age. If Israelis, in their unwisdom, do not want to execute vicious murdereres and war criminals, on their own heads be it.
I notice this restraint wins them no points with the hypercritical Euros, who are so down on the US for executing vicious murderers after due process of law and appeals (sometimes endless appeals). Yet they fawn over the PA, where suspects are given a drumhead trial in a kangaroo court with no due process, no rules of evidence, no defense counsel and no appeal, then dragged out into the street and shot, gangland style, as punishment. Ah, that must be evidence of the superior moral sense and sophistication of the Euros over we redneck yahoos in America.