Israel To Step Up Demolition Of Palestinian Homes

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel said Monday it has sent notices to the families of several Palestinians in the West Bank implicated in attacks against Israelis to vacate their homes ahead of their impending demolitions.

The development indicated that Israel is intensifying its much maligned policy of punitive destructions of homes of suspected attackers.

The assaults the attackers are accused of involved deadly intent against civilians — ramming vehicles into commuters at Jerusalem light rail platforms, for example — rather than just throwing stones or Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.

The Israeli military said that in recent weeks, an unspecified number of notices warning of impending house demolitions have been issued to Palestinian families in the West Bank, whose relatives had carried out the attacks.

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[iandhr]

1. Not only is this wrong.

It is moronic and counterproductive. Israel stopped doing this because it provided terrorists an amazing recruitment tool.

[davidpdx]

3. True

Hate breeds hate and the neverending cycle continues.

[Old Nick]

2. Germany, 1938

With Netanyahu's thugs instead of Hitler's brownshirts.

[jtuck004]

4. And our support. n/t

[leftynyc]

9. Seriously?

I don't support bulldozing homes but can you really compare throwing millions of people into ovens with knocking down the house of those who butchered 4 people in a temple today? It's comments like that that make it impossible to take someone like you seriously. It's pathetic and the reason nobody in power takes this site seriously at all.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. This is a hideous and disgusting collective punishment policy.

I hope Israel chokes on it.

[MFM008]

6. Its only a matter of time

before another explosive war. The innocent die, the guilty are elected.

[mitchtv]

7. collective punishment

For Shame

[backwoodsbob]

10. murdering people in a religous building

for shame

[Cal Carpenter]

18. So punishing their relatives and destroying the homes and property of their relatives

is appropriate?

[Bragi]

8. This is why I no longer support Israel

In my younger days I was a fulsome supporter of Israel. Now that Israelis no longer act in any way like a people with any interest in peace, or in humane behavior, or in justice, I no longer find it possible to support them.

I do, however, support the idea of a massive and generous refugee resettlement program for any and all Israelis (Jewish or Palestinian) who wish to leave. I think the numbers of refugees will swell as it becomes increasingly evident to anyone with eyes that Israel has become a militarized but failed state, with no viable long-term future.

[EX500rider]

12. "Israel has become a militarized but failed state, with no viable long-term future."

Failed state? By what measurement?

The economy of Israel is a market economy. As of 2013, Israel ranks 19th among 187 nations on the UN's Human Development Index, which places it in the category of "Very Highly Developed".

GDP $286.840 billion (PPP 2014)
$305. 707 billion (nominal 2014)
GDP growth
3.3% (2013 est.; 107th)
GDP per capita
$35,833 (PPP; 2014 est.)
$38,004 (nominal; 2014 est.)
Unemployment 5.8% (2014; est. 56th)
Exports $62.5 billion FOB (2011 est)

Main industries
high-technology products (including aviation, communications, telecommunications equipment, computer hardware and software, computer-aided design and manufacturing, medical electronics, fiber optics), pharmaceuticals, potash and phosphates, metals products, chemical products, plastics, diamond cutting, petroleum refining, textiles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel

[Bragi]

13. Failed in this way

Is real has had more than 60 years to make peace with its neighbours and has failed entirely to achieve this goal, a goal which their right wing majority and right wing government itself no longer believes in. That's a failed state, failed despite the billions in economic aid provided by US and international donors

[EX500rider]

14. They've made peace with all the neighboring countries who wanted peace..

Egypt, Jordan, etc..

[Comrade Grumpy]

17. They haven't made peace with the people they are occupying.

The people whose land they stole.

The people whose homes they destroy.

The people they oppress and humiliate on a daily basis.

[Odin2005]

11. The genocidal apartheid state of Israel, folks!

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Israel, rogue state.

https://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule103

[dembotoz]

16. perhaps stand your ground has some merit after all

if that happened to me i think i would have vengeance



in fact
pretty damn sure i would

[Bragi]

19. If your motivation is vengeance

Then the Likud has you covered.

[dembotoz]

20. round and round we go

he who drives THe bulldozer commits an act of war just as much as the "terrorist"