JEWISH TERRORIST GETS 4 LIFE SENTENCES

Jewish terrorist gets 4 life sentences (JPost)
A man from the settlement of Shvut Rachel neat Shiloh who shot and killed four Palestinian civilians in the area in an attempt to scuttle Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year was sentenced Wednesday to four consecutive life terms in prison plus an additional 12 years in jail by the Jerusalem District Court.

Asher Weisgan, 38, who had subsequently called for the assassination of former prime minister Ariel Sharon, was convicted in the same court earlier this month on four counts of murder.

"The basic prohibition of 'Thou shall not murder,' which is part of the Ten Commandments... reflects the minimum of legal norms of all of humanity," the three-judge panel headed by Judge Moshe Ravid wrote in their unanimous ruling, calling the murders a "moral failure" that were the result of Weisgan's "warped thinking."

The court also ordered Weisgan to pay NIS 228,000 to each of the families of the four victims, and another NIS 100,000 to the man he wounded, in an unusual court-ordered monetary penalty for a murder case.

A driver who transported Palestinian laborers, Weisgan grabbed a gun from a security guard at the end of the work day last August, and then opened fire at the workers in his car at close range, killing three instantly and mortally wounding a fourth, who died later at a Jerusalem hospital.

The four-page charge sheet called the shooting rampage near Shiloh "cold-blooded and premeditated" murder.

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY'S RESPONSE TO A SIMILAR ACT OF TERROR BY A PALESTINIAN AGAINST ISRAELIS. WOULD THERE BE A TRIAL? A CONDEMNATION OF MURDER? PUNISHMENT? NO. THERE WOULD BE A CELEBRATION FOR THE "HERO."