Where's all the apologies from those posters with a hate on the Jewish state who claimed there would be no justice.

I'm not surprised they staying away from this thread completely .

They haven't figured out how to trash Israel for whatever. Or they'll ignore it. If nothing else, they're pathetically predictable.

Deserves every second of that sentence. Life plus 20 - not sure how that works but sounds awesome.

However, the Israeli government usually insists on razing the homes of terrorists, but not in this case. Can someone explain the rationale behind razing the homes of Palestinian terrorists but not Jewish ones?

There wont be any parades for this criminal, there wont be streets named after him, there wont be candy given out to the children in honor of him and there wont be payments to his family from the government to thank them for raising a martyr. No surprise that doesn't raise questions from you.

But life plus 20 years is an awfully long time. I come from a part of the world (an unspecified Scandinavian country) where the average sentence served for murder is less than ten years, and a guy like Anders Breivik gets sentenced to 21 years after killing 77 people.

I must honestly say that I don't understand what good such a long sentence will do.

I wouldn't want murderers out in just 10 years living anywhere near me or my family.

What does your country do with sexual predators, rapists?

A prison sentence is supposed to decrease recidivism, not the opposite. Just because we dislike some people doesn't mean they can stay on the narrow path if given the chance.

Scandinavian countries are really safe compared to the US. There's free and excellent healthcare too.

But the main point of a prison sentence is to protect society and punish the criminal.

Recidivism rates are so high for some offenders though, that rehabilitation efforts are pointless unless they are minors and often even then they are too far gone to be rehabilitated.

I speak from experience, I have spent years working directly with juvenile offenders.

has proven he can't live among civilized people and should be locked up, locked up. His crime was horrific. The sentence Breivik got was a crime itself.

BUT ....