Knesset member urges death for Israeli authors of "Geneva" peace plan

[Classical_Liberal]

Knesset member urges death for Israeli authors of "Geneva" peace plan

JERUSALEM (AFP) Oct 21, 2003
A right-wing Knesset member Tuesday accused high-profile Israeli leftists who drafted an unofficial peace plan with the Palestinians of "treason" and demanded they be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

"Those who initiated the Geneva agreement have perpetrated a crime of treason necessitating a death sentence or life imprisonement," Shaul Yahalom, who heads the radical National Religious Party (NRP), wrote in a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, according to a copy obtained by AFP.

The symbolic Geneva peace plan was drawn up last week between Israeli left-wingers, including former justice minister Yossi Beilin, and leading Palestinians such as former information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.

Yahalom charged that the "Israelis behind this initiative have devised an agreement whose goal is, among other things, to deprive Israel of its sovereignty over the (Palestinian territories) and notably Jerusalem.".....

http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031021134604.196ry8qm.html

[Forkboy]

1. Insanity reigns supreme in the region

[Classical_Liberal]

2. Mitzna has called for this Knesset member to be charged with some

sort of law against incitement that was passed after Rabin was shot.
http://www.ariga.com/2003-10-21.shtml

[tinnypriv]

3. Good find

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=printer_friendly&forum=124&topic_id=23421&mesg_id=23571



First one to find this in the US media wins a big prize. :D

[bluesoul]

4. Surprise surprise

Extreme of the extreme. And this is a member of the Knesset? No wonder..

[Scurrilous]

5. It's this kind of crazy rhetoric..

.. that inspired and emboldened Yigal Amir. Let's hope nothing bad comes of this.