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Knesset Approves 'Anti-Terror Law'
The law stiffens punishment for terror and replaces some of the British-era emergency orders with modern versions.
by Gil Ronen
Published: 03/08/11, 10:22 PM
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The Knesset approved in the first reading Wednesday a government-sponsored law that would organize and reframe the legal means for fighting terrorist organizations.
Some parts of the law will replace some of the British-era emergency orders of 1945, which are no longer deemed necessary. It is intended to give modern tools for the prevention of the existence and operation of terror organizations, for disrupting the organizational and financing infrastructures that maintain them, for catching perpetrators and bringing them to justice.
The law would provide a mechanism for declaring a group a terror organization, including the possibility of declaring an institution, a faction or branch operated by terror group members as a terror organization. This will be possible even if some of the organization's activity is legal.
The law also specifies new categories of terror offenses including the management of a terror organization, recruitment and membership in a terror organization, manifestation of identification with a terror organization, incitement to terror, assisting terror and non-prevention of terror.
Punishment for a terror act as defined by law will be doubled and the duration of what Israeli law considers a "life sentence" for terror will be extended.
The law widens the police's authority in preventing terror and closing down venuesthat serve terror organizations in their activities.
28 MKs voted in favor and 11 against. The bill goes to the Law, Constitution and Justice Committee for preparation for its final readings.
Note:
There would be far less confusion in the United States and less politically correct terminology in the Media, if our own Homeland Security adopted new "Anti-Terror" laws! When someone at a military base screams out "Allah Akbar!" while shooting and killing American troops, America would recognize this attack as an Islamist terrorist behind the gun that murdered our young men and women serving our country. Secondly, America would not allow organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood to continue tying up our court systems with frivolous law suits and most certainly, would not allow these same organizations to promote and build mosques i.e. training grounds for Islamic terrorists. As one person said, "Islam will eventually take over the West without firing one bullet" (unless America wakes up!). At the moment, the European countries are waking up to Islam tactics faster than the United States.
