RegendansOpinion
The gallows of occupation: Law as execution in Israel’s apartheid state
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A system that accelerates execution within ninety days, restricts avenues of appeal, and operates through military courts whose independence and impartiality are fundamentally compromised cannot, by any serious legal measure, meet these standards. It is not merely deficient. It is disqualified.
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When viewed in this manner, the law reveals itself as part of a broader system in which legal structures are deployed to maintain domination over a subordinated population.
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The question that now confronts the world is not whether this law can be justified. It cannot. The question is whether the international community is prepared to treat it with the seriousness it demands. To do otherwise is to accept a world in which the machinery of death can be normalised under the guise of legality, and in which the protections of law are reserved for some and denied to others.
In such a world, the line between law and violence disappears.
And when that line is erased, what remains is not order, but domination—enforced, in this case, by the tightening of a noose.
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