Israel Hands Out Two Grossly Unequal Forms of Justice for Jewish and Palestinian Victims

‘An Israeli religious extremist who stabbed another Jewish man he believed to be Arab in a failed terror attack was sentenced to 11 years in prison by an Israeli court on Monday. The sentence poses a stark contrast to past verdicts in which Israeli extremists’ attacks on Palestinian civilians have gone virtually unpunished.
Shlomo Haim Pinto, the attacker, told the court that he was “being controlled by an inner voice and that he felt that he was performing a mitzvah,” or good deed, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
Pinto explicitly said his attack was religiously and politically motivated. Haaretz explained the extremist “believed that by attacking an Arab he would weaken ‘Ishmael’s emissary.’ If he weakened the spiritual influence of Ishmael’s nation, he said, ‘there would be greater mercy for the Jewish people and he would advance the redemption,’ according to the court’s ruling.”‘
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