We the comrades of Unit
1012, send our condolences to Michal Salomon and her family members. We pray
the Israeli Government will get the death penalty approved.
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Michal Salomon Hillel Maeir/TPS
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Halamish widow infuriated terrorist did not get
death penalty
'I thought this murder shocked the country. Slowly, it dawned on me that
they didn't really mean it.'
Contact Editor
Tzvi Lev, 16/02/18 00:15
Michal
Salomon says she is infuriated that the terrorist who killed her husband, sister,
and father last summer during a family event was not sentenced to death on
Thursday.
"I
think justice would have been done if he got the death penalty but we saw that
there was no majority, so apparently justice was not done,"
Solomon said after the terrorist was sentenced to four life sentences.
Salomon said
she had lobbied several senior government officials in hope of getting the
death penalty to no avail. "Everyone told me - the State of Israel does
not support the death penalty," she recalled.
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“Terrorists are inciting, and want to kick us out of
here. I promise they won’t be successful.” – Benjamin Netanyahu
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://au.pinterest.com/ojarman/benjamin-netanyahu/]
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Salomon said
she remembers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit during
the shiva mourning period and how he promised to support the death penalty for
the terrorist. "The truth is, I really thought it would happen, really had
a thought that this murder would shock the country," Salomon told Channel
2. "Slowly I realized that they didn't really mean it."
Salomon
strongly denounced Israel's decision not to seek the death penalty, contending
that it harmed the country's deterrence and led to more terrorism. "Even after our (family's) murder, which is considered a
very shocking murder, there are already new widows and orphans, and nothing has
changed," charged the widow.
The Salomon
family members Elad (36), his sister Chaya (46), and his father Yosef (70) were
slaughtered by 19-year-old Omar al-Abed as the family ate their Friday night
dinner at Yosef's home in Neve Tzuf last year.
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“It would be better to drown these prisoners in
the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.” - Avigdor
Lieberman
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Immediately
after the murder, a long string of influential politicians promised that one
responsible would be put to death. "The death
penalty for terrorists –- it’s time to implement it in severe cases,"
said Netanyahu. "The death sentence is the only appropriate
punishment for such a despicable act. I call on the judges to demonstrate
courage and hand down a death sentence to this terrorist," added
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.
Widow of
victim in Halamish terror attack asks for death penalty of perpetrator
02/16/2018 4:50:43 AM Written by i24NEWS
02/16/2018 4:50:43 AM Written by i24NEWS
The widow says she hoped Netanyahu actually meant
it when he promised death penalty during a visit in Halamish
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Yosef
Salomon, 70, his daughter Chaya Salomon, 46, seen at a recent family
celebration. They were stabbed to death on July 21, 2017 in Halamish Courtesy
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The widow of a victim of a terror attack carried
out in the Israeli settlement of Halamish last summer criticized the government
for not having delivered on a death penalty law then promised to her by Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu.
"Justice hasn't been done. You cannot really
get justice as you cannot return those who were slain by the terrorist to life.
With death penalty, maybe we could have gone close to justice.
But we saw that, unfortunately, death penalty did
not get a majority (of votes by judges). So justice was not made," she
told Israeli television.
The Palestinian terrorist responsible for the
murder of three members of the Salomon family in the West Bank settlement of
Halamish in July 2017 has been granted four life sentences by a military court
on Wednesday.
Omar al-Abed, 19, was convicted of three counts of
murder which claimed the lives Yosef Salomon, 70 his daughter Chaya, 46 and his
son Elad, 36. The fourth charge was in relation to his attempted murder of
Tova, Yosef’s wife.
He was also ordered to pay the family a sum of NIS
1.8 million in compensation.
Al-Abed from the nearby village of Kaubar, broke
into the family's home in the Jewish settlement of Halamish last summer and
stabbed four members of the family as they as they sat down to a traditional
Sabbath dinner to celebrate the birth of a new grandchild in the family.
"When Prime Minister Netanyahu came to see as
as we were mourning our dears, I actually believed him when he said he was
going to impose the death penalty," the widow said.
"But we soon realized that that murder was not
going to shake Israel like we hoped, (the death penalty) just did not
happen", she told to Israeli television on the day of the trial.
In their verdict, the judges described considering
the death penalty for the defendant, who reportedly smiled as the survivors
spoke recounted the terror attack at the trial.
"We call on the authorities not to order the
release of the terrorist in any future deal," the judges also wrote.
Omar Al-Abed was shot and subdued by a neighbor, an
IDF soldier on weekend leave, who heard the family's screams.
Al-Abed reportedly told investigators that he had
purchased a knife two days before and was waiting to commit a terror attack in
response to the crisis surrounding the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount compound.
"What's my life worth when Al-Aqsa is being
desecrated," the 19 year-old wrote on Facebook hours before carrying out
the attack, in reference to the mosque located in the flashpoint compound.
"All of us are the sons of Palestine and the
sons of al-AQsa," the post read. "You, sons of monkeys and pigs, if
you do not open the gates of Al-Aqsa, I am sure that others will follow me and
will hit you with an iron fist. I am warning you.”
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woman holds up a sign with ‘Too many terrorists in prison’ written on one side
and ‘Kill them all’ written on the other during a rally in Tel Aviv on April
19, 2016 to support Elor Azaria. (Photo: Jack Guez/AFP) [PHOTO SOURCE: http://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/israelis-palestinian-attackers/] |
In January the Israeli parliament gave preliminary
approval to a bill making it easier for "terrorists" to be sentenced
to death.
The bill, approved 52-49, would ease the
requirements military courts must meet to sentence those convicted of
"terrorist" crimes to death was it to be voted through Parliament
until the last step.
Israel has not carried out any executions since
1962, when Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in a trial that
inspired Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality
of Evil".
Previously, only officer Meir Tobianski from the
newly born Israeli army was sentenced to death in Israel, after being accused
of spying for the enemy in 1948.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted in favor of
the legislation, saying it was necessary in extreme cases, but it requires
three more votes in parliament to become law.
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