Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumIsrael Punitively Demolishes Homes of Palestinians suspected in Attacks against Israelis
JERUSALEM, October 6, 2015 (WAFA) Israeli authorities Tuesday demolished in a punitive measure the family homes of three Palestinians and sealed off another with cement in Jerusalem, for their involvement in attacks against Israelis, according to local sources.
The four homes belong to the families of four Palestinians killed by Israel after they were believed to be involved in attacks against Israeli targets.
At midnight, staff from Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem accompanied by a police force condoned off Jabal al-Mukabir neighborhood in Jerusalem before detonating and demolishing the homes of Ghassan and Udai Abu-Jamal, two cousins involved in the attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem in November 2014.
Forces also demolished the house of Mohammad Jaabis, also believed to have been involved in an alleged excavator attack against Israelis in Jerusalem.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=29469
oberliner
(58,724 posts)On the morning of 18 November 2014, two Palestinian men from Jerusalem entered Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue, in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel, and attacked the praying congregants with axes, knives, and a gun. They killed four dual-nationality worshippers, and critically wounded a responding Druze Israeli police officer, who later died of his wounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Jerusalem_synagogue_attack
That's the attack referenced in case people don't recall.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Come to think of it, are they even looking for the terrorists who burned the Dawabsheh family to death?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)There is no rationale for such a policy.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Tell me I'm wrong.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Neither is representative of either movement, in spite of support among the right wing of both communities for such actions.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)As you stated.
As we all know punitive demolitions is a policy designed by the state of Israel.
And with that alone it can be reasoned that since Palestinians who commit egregious "terrorists" crimes, by the "barbaric" <---your words state of Israel, see their homes destroyed whereas Israeli Jews who do the same are not victims of the same "barbaric" act.
And here's the shriveled nugget of your fallacy. A terrorist attack, carried out by individuals, is not the same as a "barbaric"<---your words act carried out by the *State: favouring one group above another: Jews over non-Jews.
Without a doubt the act of punitive demolitions, against Palestinians but not Jews, is clearly a form of bigoted and corrupted right wing "barbaric" <---your words Israeli state ZIONISM: a rigged game.
procon
(15,805 posts)of extrajudicial reprisals? It's a cherry picked charade of democracy that offers justice for some, but metes out government vigilantism to those people they deem unworthy of the same protections under the law. Israel's punitive and discriminatory vengence is no substitute for a just and equal legal system when the victims of these destructive acts of have no recourse for redress let alone an opportunity to argue their rights and innocence before a jury of their peers.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That is pretty normal for an occupation situation such as this one.
procon
(15,805 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Which is why the occupation needs to end and a Palestinian state needs to be established alongside Israel.
Israeli
(4,151 posts)...do you agree that East Jerusalem should be included oberliner ?
Source: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/about/aims/
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)tell us how many Americans are moving their families to Afghanistan, claiming land and setting up shop with blessings and protections of the US government?
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Do you have a better example?
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Razing the homes of suspected terrorists is a form of collective punishment that no civilized state should engage in. It's also apartheid, as Jewish terrorists never get their homes razed. The IDF is the savage here, and we must protect the innocent from them.