Compare and Contrast
Palestinian justice:
A suspected Palestinian collaborator was executed Sunday evening in Kafr Rima near Ramallah on the West Bank. The suspected collaborator... was shot and killed by members of Yasser Arafat linked Fatah Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades.
Also Palestinian justice:
US officials have criticized the Palestinian Authority for failing to prevent the escape on Wednesday night of three Palestinians who were being held in a Gaza City prison on suspicion of involvement in the attack on a US diplomatic convoy last October...
Palestinian journalists in Gaza City said they believed the "attack" on the prison was coordinated with senior PA security officials. "I don't think this was a raid," said one journalist, noting that the prison was heavily guarded and it didn't seem logical that a few gunmen would be able to overcome all the policemen there. "Someone in the PA wanted the suspects freed."
Usually this is the place in a "compare and contrast" piece where I make some snarky comment like "killing is OK, unless you're killing ____". But in the Palestinian legal system, it seems that killing is pretty much always OK.
A suspected Palestinian collaborator was executed Sunday evening in Kafr Rima near Ramallah on the West Bank. The suspected collaborator... was shot and killed by members of Yasser Arafat linked Fatah Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades.
Also Palestinian justice:
US officials have criticized the Palestinian Authority for failing to prevent the escape on Wednesday night of three Palestinians who were being held in a Gaza City prison on suspicion of involvement in the attack on a US diplomatic convoy last October...
Palestinian journalists in Gaza City said they believed the "attack" on the prison was coordinated with senior PA security officials. "I don't think this was a raid," said one journalist, noting that the prison was heavily guarded and it didn't seem logical that a few gunmen would be able to overcome all the policemen there. "Someone in the PA wanted the suspects freed."
Usually this is the place in a "compare and contrast" piece where I make some snarky comment like "killing is OK, unless you're killing ____". But in the Palestinian legal system, it seems that killing is pretty much always OK.
