Without a legal system prepared to supply a veneer of decency, Israel couldn’t do what it inflicts on Palestinians.

The Israeli Knesset council disqualified a bill on Sunday that called for redefining Israel as a state for all its citizens, rejecting the argument that it must recognise the rights of its Arab minority citizens as equal to its Jewish majority.

Hamas commanders and Palestinians who launch incendiary kites against Israel from the Gaza Strip should be dealt with using targeted killings, said Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Tuesday, as fires continued to spread in the south as a result of the burning projectiles.

A representative of the state told the High Court of Justice Sunday that the law allowing the expropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settlements “reflects the taking of governmental responsibility,” even as he admitted that it was “imperfect, someone is hurt” by it.

In contrast to the Palestinians suspected of killing Israelis, the Israeli who killed Najjar is protected from exposure to the cameras and an in-depth breakdown of his family history, including his relatives’ participation in routine attacks on Palestinians as part of their military service or their political affiliation.

“If Israel pushes through the so-called ‘Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria Law,’ it could send the country’s leaders to the dock in the International Criminal Court,” writes Mordechai Kremnitzer.

Some of the articles of the law still pose a threat to freedom of opinion and expression.