The "Ben Gvir" Guillotine: When Revenge Becomes Law and Legitimizes Killing

Today, the deep transformations in the legislative and political structure within the Israeli state of imbalance are clearly manifested, precisely illustrating how revenge transitions from mere incitement discourse in marches and electoral rallies to an institutionalized legal tool.

After the enactment of the law to execute Palestinian prisoners, we will soon hear from those who enacted it in the Israeli government about preparing lists and specifying names, and perhaps even about a celebration date as well. This is how those who drafted this legislation think: turning prisoners into mere names on death lists led by Itamar Ben Gvir and a group of fascists in the Knesset.

We are confronted with a scene that reveals the mentality behind this path; when prisoners are reduced to numbers on death lists, it becomes clear that the legislator is premeditating their victims, seeking to transform political revenge into binding legal texts. This approach represents a clear institutionalization of killing and a beautification of crime; the occupation is no longer satisfied with the field execution it historically practiced in the darkness of military operations, but is now seeking a legal "celebration" that grants the killer full immunity before his extremist audience.

The death penalty contradicts the sanctity of life and human dignity, and human rights organizations consider it a cruel punishment that violates the Convention Against Torture. While the world is moving towards abolishing or suspending it, recognizing its harm and role in fueling cycles of violence, Israel opts for moral and legal collapse by adopting a punishment that has been rejected by most modern societies, removing the last masks of "democracy" it has long tried to market.

Contrary to the deterrence claims promoted by the Israeli legislator, this punishment does not prevent operations, but rather opens the door to a serious escalation that could lead to collective executions of Palestinian prisoners.
The historical truth states that the occupying state has been effectively practicing executions for decades through various means outside the framework of law; through thousands of assassinations, sniper shootings, and random gunfire at civilians and detainees. The novelty today is not the act of "killing" itself, but the attempt to legitimize it legally.

The greatest danger of this law lies in its retroactive effect, which constitutes a legal precedent and a blatant violation of established principles that require the immediate application of penal laws only.

This clause opens the door to issuing collective death sentences against hundreds of prisoners, especially those who were arrested since October 7, 2023; making the law a ready guillotine prepared to eliminate resistance elements in response to political revenge tendencies.

This legislation institutionalizes blatant racial discrimination; it applies solely to Palestinians and will not include any Israeli who kills a Palestinian. This apartheid separation confirms that the law does not target crime but rather identity and ethnicity, violating the principle of equality based on internationally prohibited racial classifications.
Moreover, the application of Israeli domestic law on the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip constitutes a clear violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention; the Knesset has no authority under the Hague Convention to legislate for populations under occupation.

What we see today is the leadership of Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his allies from the fascist right steering a path that turns prisons into arenas for settling political scores. This law is the final nail in the coffin of what is termed the Israeli judicial system, fully transforming it into an executive arm of the ideology of ethnic cleansing and cold-blooded murder.