Families of Palestinian bombers clear out of their homes, fearing Israeli house demolitions

Associated Press ^ | 8-6-02 | HADEEL WAHDAN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Dear Mrs. Idris:

Tough shifsky. You will lose your home and never have a "homeland" if you kill innocent Jews in a pathetic attempt to advance your cause. Your leaders consider you and your family fodder. They steal money from western nations and live in luxury while you watch your house tumble under Israeli tanks.

Olde

[redhawk]

Palestinian Labor Minister Ghassan Khatib said the practice violates international law

Interesting that everytime you attempt to hold terrorists and their supporters accountable, it's a violation of some 'Internation Law". Who wrote this law anyway?

[tomahawk]

Time for the Bulldozer (Arik) to fire up the bulldozer and raze the abodes of the terrorist murderers.

[theoriginalgriff]

I agree with you...screw 'em. Do you think any of these poor helpless people give a hoot about the people their relatives are murdering?
Give me a break!

[sinclair]

Maybe they could move to Afghanistan. Lots of empty caves over there I understand.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Go to Jordan. They've got land, a little king and, since the Arabs run things, it might be close to paradise.

[aimhigh]

This is the price for raising your kids to hate Jews.

[Stavka2]

Consider if this doesn't work, instant demolition via 500 kg bombs....with no prior warning, carried out within 72 hours of a bombing.

[Prodigal Son]

The Israelis are knocking down the houses of Palestinian attackers, and the family believes it is on the list of homes that soon will be demolished because 27-year-old Wafa Idris carried out a deadly bombing in Jerusalem in January.

Now, you see, who says Palestinians aren't capable of a little critical thinking when offered the proper incentive? This family is clearly connecting cause with effect here. Now, if they can just pass this little bit of useful knowledge on to their neighbors- we might actually get somewhere. Who knows, in a few decades we might even be able to train them via this Pavlovian effect that it isn't nice to celebrate when mass murder is committed.

[Stentor]

"This is only going to deepen the hatred and consequently widen the cycle of violence," he said.

The most tired of the tired old cliches.

[Sgt_Schultze]

You have an interesting idea there. The Israelis could knock down the house of the bomber's family and the ten neighboring houses that immediately surround it. That might encourage a little neighborhood watch to develop, members of which could turn in the bombers ahead of time.

[Publius6961]

and the family believes it is on the list of homes that soon will be demolished because 27-year-old Wafa Idris carried out a deadly bombing in Jerusalem in January.

Smart move.
And keep the cash from Saddam and the Saudis on your person too, because I think the Israelis will probably want to confiscate that too.

Now just keep moving...
West and way south.

[Publius6961]

Interesting that everytime you attempt to hold terrorists and their supporters accountable, it's a violation of some 'Internation Law". Who wrote this law anyway?

Khatib did.

Notice that they are never specific nor bother to cite Section or Paragraph?

"International Law" has such a pompous (and useless) ring to it coming from the mouth of a Muslim Mass Murderer.

[wretchard]

"Let His blood be upon our heads and upon our children." Matthew 27:25.

Here comes our old friend "collective responsibility". It is unfair, but univerally practiced. All Americans are collectively responsible for the acts of the Great Satan (the group name for America) and are attacked accordingly. The Germans are still paying reparations for the Holocaust. The Japanese were indemnifying Asian countries up until the late 1960s. Non-aboriginal Australians (including the recently arrived Asians) are expected to ante up to the Aborigines. Then there is "slave reparations" in the United States.

Doubtless the students who died in the attack on the Frank Sinatra cafeteria were responsible for something. They are about as guilty as the man waiting for his home to be destroyed. (I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, largely because if I had to be held to account for the acts of my uncles and ex-brother in law, I would surely be guilty of something.)

It is unfair: as unfair Sherman's depradations on his march through Georgia; as unfair as Curtis LeMay's destruction of Japanese cities; as unfair as the boycott against apartheid.

The only thing that would be less fair is letting it all go to waste. These things can be countenanced, if only briefly, if they lead to victory: to the end of slavery, to the end of fascism, to the end of racism. Unfortunately, the liberals don't want to go anywhere but round in circles. "Peace" and "quagmire", two words dear to their heart, have become conflated in their minds.