Responding to Hamas’ tough stance on the Shalit exchange, the government voted to cut jailed terrorists’ privileges to the legal minimum. The number of family visits would be reduced and TVs would removed from their cells.
The Israeli branch of the UN’s Committee Against Torture immediately lambasted the government’s decision. In the loonies’ view, it is not fitting for Israel to descend to Hamas’ level.
This is really a Kafka land. Why were the jailed terrorists allowed such benefits in the first place? Why provide any benefits to Fatah or Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorists? And what kind of a legal minimum are they talking about? Yigal Amir and other Jewish criminals in Israeli jails do not have a shred of the benefits allowed to terrorist inmates, so it’s not about the Israeli legal minimum. If we are treating the terrorists as POWs, their only rights are to basic food and urgent health service—no conjugal visits, phones, or TVs.
The implementation of the government order is problematic because all benefits to jailed terrorists were instituted on the Supreme Court’s orders. And that scum dare to call themselves the Judges of Israel.
Turning Israeli jails into private resorts for terrorists is the other side of the Israeli establishment’s cozy relationship with the PLO.
