Israel Cements its Apartheid: Death Penalty for Palestinian- Not Zionist -Terrorists

Grotesque. Illegal. Inhumane. Degrading, Draconian, Discriminatory.... are some of the qualifiers of Israel's new law adopting the death penalty for Palestinians, whose land it illegally occupies and confiscates, who resist the occupation.

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'This is apartheid’: International politicians, governments condemn terror death penalty law
Mathilda Heller
Tue, March 31, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also responded to the bill on Tuesday, calling its passing "one more step toward apartheid."

Scores of politicians and governments around the world have condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a law mandating the death penalty for terrorists, calling it an act of “apartheid.”

The bill, sponsored by far Right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party, aims to act as a deterrent against terror and serve a measure of justice for victims of terrorism.

The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom released a joint statement, saying that the death penalty “is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect.”

The Spanish government called it a “draconian law,” which is “discriminatory against the Palestinian population.”

“The text also implies the illegal exercise of Israeli jurisdiction in the Occupied Territory belonging to the state of Palestine, which is particularly serious in the case of the application of capital punishment,” Spain’s Foreign Ministry added.

Knesset approves death penalty for terrorists bill, March 30, 2026. (credit: KNESSET)
Europe slams Israel's death penalty for terror bill

Spain reiterates its firm rejection of the death penalty in all cases and circumstances, considering it a cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment that has no proven deterrent effect and causes irreparable harm in the event of a miscarriage of justice.

The Irish government said the right to life was a fundamental human right and called the bill “de facto discriminatory” because it may disproportionately target Palestinians.

The UK’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski said, “This is apartheid,” adding, “It’s morally disgusting – and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.”

These claims of apartheid were echoed by many groups, both governmental and non-governmental (such as pro-Palestinian NGOs.) Amnesty UK claimed “The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide, and occupation that Palestinians continue to suffer,” adding, “Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.”

Extra criticism was directed at Ben-Gvir, who was pictured celebrating the bill’s passage with champagne.

The Irish Sinn Fein party said its “revulsion at this law was compounded by the grotesque sight of Ben-Gvir celebrating with bottles of champagne.”

European Deputy with the France Insoumise Party Manon Aubry called for Europe to suspend the association agreement with Israel on account of Ben-Gvir’s actions, saying “Europe can no longer be complicit.”

Former Labour UK leader Jeremy Corbyn said, “The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.”

A US State Department spokesperson, however, said it respects Israel’s “sovereign right to determine its own laws and penalties for individuals convicted of terrorism.”

“We trust that any such measures will be carried out with a fair trial and respect for all applicable fair trial guarantees and protections,” the spokesperson said.

The United States is the only NATO country that still practices capital punishment.

Expats Flee the Muslim Arab Gulf Trucial States. US Troops Moving In.

It looks like Trump's Iran war is writing the final chapter in the Boom and Bust story of the politically virgin-prostitute Arab Gulf states! The British colonial crooks called them Trucial States i.e. they provided them protection (against who-the-hell-knows) in exchange for their oil. They rose from the desert to replace their beige tents and dark slaves with shimmering high rises and a still dark foreign workforce. You see, Gulf Arabs had never worked, neither before discovering oil beneath the sands, nor afterwards. Unless tending to one's camels and goats is considered work.

Suddenly, Western expats - who otherwise hate their hosts in the Islamic Gulf Arab States, but have kept low profile so as not to jeopardize their lucrative jobs as prostitutes to the Sheikhs - are revealing the true nature of their hosts: Repressive, xenophobic, and deeply Islamic: even non-Islamic schools in the UAE are forced by law to make their non-Muslim schoolchildren chant a Koran-laden, Islam-praising, national anthem!! Yes, my dear MAGA morons: Trump is sending your children to be killed to protect Sharia-embracing Islamists.

The Sheikhs, Emirs, Sultans and such Bronze Age potentates wail and nag, but they don't fight. They have purchased - more likely were made to purchase - trillions of dollars worth of US weapons (It's how the girls pay their pimp). But they don't use them. They take the blows of the Iranians without responding BECAUSE the American and British pimps are supposed to protect their virgin girls in their flowing robes and gigantic cars. 

In nearby Iran, the Iranians refused the extortion protection of the British (and more recently American) pimps, which prompted the latter to mount a coup, arrest the democratically elected Mohamed Mosaddegh, and replace him with the decadent stooge Shah. That was in 1953. Iran, by the way, had been a neutral partner of the western alliance against the Turkish Ottoman and Russian empires. Ever since, the Iranians loathe westerners, and much of the present mutual hostility can be traced back to that violent overturn by the CIA and its British accolytes of a democratically elected government just to steal the Iranian nation's oil. 

The West tried it too in Egypt in 1956 (not for oil, but for control of the Suez Cana) but failed. The US did it also in Chile, killing the democractically elected Salvador Allende (1973), supposedly as part of the US fight against the Quixotic windmill of Communism. 

And now, the imbecile Trump thinks we are still somewhere between late 19th - early 20th century. But as Chief Justice John Roberts just told the Trumpian goons at a SCOTUS hearing on Birthright Citizenship: "It’s a new world. [But] it’s the same Constitution.” 

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Expats flee Dubai over snitches in their WhatsApp groups

Our Foreign Staff

Expats have fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over fears of being reported to police by fellow WhatsApp group members after sharing images of the Iran war, a campaigner said. “People who previously shared content but deleted it later are concerned they may have been reported at the time of sharing it and could thus still be arrested. Some people at risk have left the country.” Ms Stirling explained that in both cases the expats had been approached by police at their homes.

“They were informed that the authorities had been told they had material on their phones,” she added.

Detained in Dubai is supporting several people arrested under the UAE’s cybercrime laws. These include a British air steward in his twenties, who was allegedly detained over a privately shared airport photo and is currently in a single “overcrowded cell” with 60 others.

The London-based air steward for the low-cost airline FlyDubai is said to have taken a photo of the aftermath of an Iranian drone crash near Dubai airport on March 7 and sent it to colleagues, asking whether the area had become safe.

Cybercrime laws in the UAE are among the strictest in the world and any commentary about regional conflict, government policy or security matters could be seen as a criminal offence.

Those found guilty of breaking the Gulf state’s strictest laws on taking pictures of attacks could receive a sentence of 10 years in prison or fines of up to £200,000.

The Telegraph previously revealed how a 60-year-old British tourist was arrested after allegedly filming missiles.

The London-based holidaymaker was later charged along with 20 other people under the Gulf state’s cybercrime laws. This was despite the man deleting the video from his phone immediately when asked and telling police he had no intention of doing anything wrong.

As of Tuesday, the Foreign Office is understood to be assisting six British nationals who have been detained on charges relating to pictures of Iranian attacks.

It is understood some have been released, while others may not have informed the Government of their arrest.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are providing consular assistance to a small number of British nationals detained in the UAE in connection with issues related to images of Iranian attacks, and our Ambassador is engaging with the Emirati authorities about their cases.”

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US moves troops to hotels in Middle East – seemingly in violation of its own rules of war: report
Ariana Baio
Thu, April 2, 2026

The Pentagon may have violated its own rules of war by moving troops from U.S. bases, targeted by Iran, to hotels and other civilian locations in the Middle East region, the New York Times reported.

Since the start of the conflict, initiated by President Donald Trump’s missile strikes, Iranian forces have been targeting U.S. bases throughout the region. Bases, such as the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, have been damaged and at least a dozen service members have been killed.

As a result, troops have been moved to office spaces and hotels throughout the region where they’ve been working remotely, military personnel told the New York Times last month.

If true, this could mean the Defense Department has violated a U.S. Law of War, which says officials must use their best efforts to distinguish military forces from others to mitigate civilian casualties and property damage.

The Independent has asked the Pentagon for comment.

Iranian forces have damaged US airbases throughout the Gulf region, which has led some troops to be relocated to other civilian areas, according to a recent report (SOCIAL MEDIA via REUTERS)

Iran has launched a retaliatory missile strike campaign against the U.S. since America and Israel began their attack in late February. Iran has targeted U.S. military bases in addition to U.S. embassies and recently warned it would attack U.S. businesses throughout the Gulf region.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had already asked people to report locations where troops are located, which U.S. officials said would not intimidate them from ceasing attacks.

The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a travel advisory this week, warning American citizens that “gathering” areas could be potential targets.

Mitigating civilian casualties is a main pillar of the U.S. rules of war as well as the Geneva Conventions. Forces are not to target civilians unnecessarily and are asked to do what they can to ensure civilians are kept out of harm's way.

Section II of the U.S. Law of War states that parties in conflict should “physically separate, as feasible, their military objectives from civilian population and other protected persons and objects.”

However, the manual also says it may not always be feasible to do so in cases where forces are “housed in populated areas to take advantage of existing facilities.”

The US has launched thousands of strikes on Iran, hitting military, industrial and civilian site since the attack began in late February (AFP via Getty Images)

More than 300 American service members have been injured since the beginning of the attacks, and at least 13 service members have been killed. Roughly 20 U.S. aircraft, including a critical American spy plane, have been damaged.

Trump is expected to deliver an address to the nation on April 1 after publicly vacillating between increased military threats to Iran and claims of diplomatic progress in reaching an agreement to end the war, which has spiked domestic gas prices and roiled global energy markets with Iran’s effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global oil supplies.

Trump initially said American naval vessels would escort ships through the passage but has since repeatedly demanded European allies to contribute naval support for an operation to reopen the strait to maritime traffic.

The administration is also reportedly weighing a potentially risky ground operation to seize uranium from deep inside Iran, what would mark a major escalation of a conflict that has entered a second month.

This week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the U.S. will “operate within the confines of the law” when questioned about the president’s threats to destroy Iran’s electricity plants and desalination plants, civilian infrastructure that could amount to war crimes under international law if targeted.

Trump is Declared Insane by His Own People.

While drunkard, womanizing, violent, 'saved-by-Jesus' creep, the Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth prays Jesus to kill his enemies on his behalf (per the distorted Sermon on the Mount), his cuckoo boss Donald Dumb is TACOing on Iran: He doesn't give a damn about anything else other than stealing oil from other countries, making money before it is too late (deadline is November 2026), and renaming every friggin' shack after his disgusting name. He's one of those temple merchants Jesus would have kicked in the ass ...

Luckily for the rest of us, Trump is inexorably taking the easy chair down the slide to the insane asylum that he is building for himself in downtown Miami. To me, the word "library" next to the name "Trump" is a giant oxymoron.

But we learned in childhood to share and be nice to others. So, to the man who will descend in the history books as the Most Supreme Moron of the United States of America, and to his 22% remaining diehard illiterate MAGA morons from the swampy boonies of America, I say:

I don't want to play in your yard
I won't climb your apple tree
I don't want to play in your yard
If you can't be good to me.
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Trump’s former White House lawyer says he is ‘clearly insane’ and questions the president’s mental fitness
Josh Marcus
Thu, April 2, 2026


Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb believes President Trump is mentally unstable based on his behavior during the ongoing Iran war, White House renovation project, and social media outbursts.

 “The cabinet will not invoke the 25th Amendment for a man who is clearly insane,” Ty Cobb, who served as a senior attorney during the first Trump term, told former CNN anchor Jim Acosta in an interview released Tuesday.

The 25th Amendment allows the vice president and cabinet to remove a president whom they decide is unfit for office.

Cobb argued that the ongoing war with Iran, his ballroom project and the president’s late-night social media tirades are evidence of a declining mental state.

“Trump historically and continuously has been guided exclusively by his narcissism. His whims, desires, impulses, have been on full display‚” Cobb said on the Jim Acosta Show. “We’re going to see more and more crazy stuff.”

Former Trump administration attorney Ty Cobb argues that President Trump is ‘clearly insane,’ based on the ongoing Iran war, the destructive renovation of the White House and the president’s frequent social media rants (Getty Images / CNN)
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Cobb also took issue with Trump’s destruction of the White House East Wing to build a new ballroom, and he praised a court for halting the renovation project this week pending congressional approval.

Cobb called the ballroom effort an “ego-driven insane exercise, destroying one of the most beautiful sites and historical sites in our country just out of hubris.” The white-collar attorney was brought into the first Trump administration White House for a brief stint as the president navigated special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential Russian election meddling.

He has since become a prominent critic of Donald Trump. Last year, Cobb told The Independent that President Trump would govern dangerously, based on personal narcissism and little else.

“Trump is 100 percent ruled by his narcissistic impulses,” Cobb said. “Any slight gets an immediate reaction, any criticism creates an enemy and purpose for vengeance, any opportunity to enhance his power or popularity gets an immediate idiotic statement, like, ‘I'm going to take over Gaza.’ … Trump doesn't have a plan. He’s sort of enjoying the ride. The reality is there are no speed bumps. There are no guardrails.”

He has also slammed Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as “creepy” and argued Attorney General Pam Bondi should be disbarred for the prosecution of Trump critic James Comey, the former FBI director.

Critics have long claimed that Trump is mentally unfit for office, allegations that also dogged his predecessor, Joe Biden, who was replaced on the 2024 presidential ticket after an incoherent debate performance.

One out of million pieces of evidence of Trump's insanity is his dealings with judges he himself appointed:
Trump blows off [Justice ] John Roberts’ concerns, ups the ante in offensive against judges
Steve Benen
Wed, April 1, 2026 

As March got underway, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” ran a segment on federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration, only to face a wave of threats from the president’s followers. Retired federal Judge John Jones, a George W. Bush appointee, told the program, “If we’re not careful, we’re going to get a judge killed. It’s just that stark.”

He was hardly the only one with these concerns. In mid-March, Politico reported on a trio of federal judges who “offered a blistering assessment of the Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary, with one comparing them to the behavior of authoritarian regimes.” The jurists added that the president’s condemnations of jurists are responsible for fueling threats to their safety.

Two days later, after a federal judge threw out a baseless criminal case against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Trump called Judge James Boasberg, the chief federal judge for the District of Columbia, “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge.” 

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts soon after warned that personal condemnations of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”

The president is aware of the concerns. He just doesn’t seem to care. 

“The judges are really hurting this country,” Trump said last week at his White House Cabinet meeting. “Justice Roberts doesn’t like when I say it, but the judges are really hurting this country. And frankly, the justices, the Supreme Court has really hurt our country, too.”

A day earlier, he suggested, in reference to the court’s ruling on tariffs, that Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch “sicken” him “because they are bad for our country.”

The president kept the offensive going on Tuesday at a White House event, when he suggested justices who rule in ways he doesn’t like are guilty of either “stupidity” or being “disloyal.”

A day earlier, Trump published an item to his social media platform that concluded, “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!” 

He’s not just whining. The president last week also called on Congress to approve a crime bill that “cracks down on rogue judges.”

“We got rogue judges that are criminals,” Trump said. “They are criminals, what they do to our country. The decisions that they hand down and hurt our country.”

It might seem like ancient history, but in the run-up to Election Day 2024, Trump invested a fair amount of time in condemning those who criticize judges — as if his own rhetorical record didn’t exist. Such criticisms, the Republican said in August, are “probably illegal.” Two weeks later, he went a little further, adding that judicial criticism should be “illegal.”

If that wasn’t quite enough, Trump — who’d spent years publicly chastising judges — went so far as to declare, “These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges.”

 Soon after, Trump won the election, and — wouldn’t you know it — he seems to have decided condemnations of judges and justices aren’t so bad after all.

 This article was originally published on ms.now