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To some extent, none of that matters. There is no justification for calling for the extra-judicial killing of anyone, no matter how much you dislike their politics. That's just murder.
You might say that some people should face trial for their behavior, and you might support the death penalty as a punitive measure, and those statements might be valid and permissible.
Saying that anyone should be killed based on their personal beliefs or political views is fucking heinous, no matter the context.
Why should the state have the monopoly on killing? They clearly do a horrible job with it and use it to kill innocent school girls to defend genocide.
Whatβs legal is not whatβs ethical. Legal systems have no basis for justice.
Well, killing soldiers in a war is extrajudicial, and I think there are valid reasons to kill soldiers in a war. I want us to go to war with Israel and blow up their military bases, which would certainly cause the deaths of some soldiers. But soldiers sign up to put their lives on the line for their country, so there's a measure of fairness. Israel's draft complicates that argument a little bit, but not by much.
But I remain opposed to the death penalty. In a war, death is the only way to remove someone from being able to harm others. When we have other options, we should take them. If we manage to get Netanyahu into government custody, we should be keeping him alive so he can face trial for his war crimes. And then he should be put in prison for life.
Unless you believe that the admin's comment was made in the context of suggesting that "Zionists" (unspecified - generally?) should be killed while in combat (specifically), I think all of that is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Given all of the discussion around this incident, it seems clear that the admin was proposing murder, not warfare.