Sent: 21 December 2022 23:41
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Despite US Opposition, UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty
I can't help mentioning that Israel was one of the first countries in the world to abolish the death penalty , of course, after duly hanging Adolf Eichmann on May 31, 1962, for his crimes against humanity.
If the death penalty was still in place in Israel, then Israel - which is not a theocracy - would have probably joined the ranks of some of their neighbours in that volatile neighbourhood, especially if the death penalty was to be meted out for what the Israeli Ministry of Justice refers to as wanton acts of terrorism - to the point where the world would have most probably protested - mass demonstrations in Tehran, Istanbul, Cairo, Khartoum, Stockholm, London, New York and Paris - as would be variously reported herein, bearing in mind that one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist - because - of course, the world, especially the antiSemitic and the so-called anti-Zionist world is always keen to hold Israel to a much higher standard than anybody else, even though the world got the expression "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" from the Hebrew Bible. With regard to the Palestinian issue, these days, Islamic militancy would be based on Quranic verses which have not been abrogated or fallen into desuetude, such as Surah Al-Baqarah , Ayat 191 and Surah Al-Baqarah Ayat 44Correction : I Roy : Straight To The Heart
On Wednesday, 21 December 2022 at 14:43:00 UTC+1 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
Despite US Opposition, UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty
How dare the UN!
Sleepy Joe B has to wake up and smell the coffee. Gone are the days of "when Caesar says "do this'' it is performed".
Like "Captain Cook did a poop behind the kitchen door
the cat came up and licked it up and said, " I want some more"
Like telling Putin to please lose the military operation in Ukraine.
Like stopping the bombing of Saigon in Vietnam.
Like telling the Ruskies to get the hell out of Afghanistan.
Like the latest decalogue
Like telling Trump's angry Republican patriots storming the capitol to calm down or the Justice Department will pass the capital punishment law on all of them - for insurrection and treason, worse than losing an alleged stolen election, taking into consideration the fact that there is no greater crime than being accused of stealing an election, since it's written in God's holy Constitution, "Thou shalt not steal".
Like taking a poke at Pope Paul .
Like the case of Assata Shakur.
Like the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
And If it's the death penalty that you're against, universally, I guess we could rope in the case of Eli Cohen.
More Bad news: Executions Around the World
Danny Glover, anti-death penalty advocate numero uno was asked what he would like to do to Osama Bin Laden if Osama was apprehended and brought to face justice at a US Court of Justice
The only good news: Already, the death penalty in Africa has been on the decline.
I Roy: Straight to the Heart
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