Ben Gvir got his hanging law, but Israel has made itself harder to defend and dragged every ally still pretending otherwise deeper into the disgrace. Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir has got his hanging law through the Knesset, Benjamin Netanyahu voted for it himself, what a way to prove both of them are in fact still alive and the first thing this has done is make Israel so much harder to defend in every capital still pretending there is some decent democratic core concerning this blatantly apartheid state, a hanging law after all that only applies to Palestinians. Any politician or media pundit denying that now is either wilfully stupid or bought and paid for. A majority of 62 Knesset members has backed a law that sets the death penalty as the default in military courts – which are the only courts Palestinians are tried through - for Palestinians conv ...