Posted on 01/15/2014 10:59:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Likud Beytenu MKs prepared for the possibility that Israeli citizens will be included in the next prisoner release, submitting bills to deny terrorists National Insurance Institute allowances.
"This bill is meant to stop the absurd situation in which a person enjoys benefits from the country he harmed," MK David Rotem (Likud Beytenu) said Wednesday.
Rotem and coalition chairman Yariv Levin (Likud Beytenu) proposed almost identical bills taking away NII pensions and unemployment payments from terrorists freed in a prisoner release deal.
The bills would not allow terrorists to receive funds from the NII during the duration of their original sentence, which, in many cases, is for life.
Terrorists can receive NII allowances like any other citizen or permanent resident, but they don't receive handicap compensation if they are injured while committing an act of terror, Welfare Minister Meir Cohen explained in response to a parliamentary question from MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi).
"I too think that whoever took part in terrorism against the State of Israel does not deserve any government support, including guaranteed income," Cohen said in the plenum, adding that he will support a bill changing the policy.
"First we free murdering terrorists for no reason, then the courts defend citizens of foreign countries instead of citizens of the State of Israel and its character, and the icing on the cake is that we give unemployment payments to released terrorists. What's next?" Shaked wondered.
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It’s absurd that they are even having this discussion.
Would that his Obama’s Senate and Prez pensions?
...oh....this just applies to Israel....?
...but...it’s a great model!
LIBs are insane whereever they roam.
It’s absurd that they are even freeing them from prison. They should have been apprehended, blindfolded, and then shot, per the Geneva Convention.
a few bullets would avoid the need for any of this debate
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