Posted on Fri, Jul. 4, 2008
Olmert proposes demolishing homes of attackers' kin
By Laurie Copans
Associated Press
JERUSALEM - A day after a Palestinian construction worker's deadly rampage in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called for reviving the practice of demolishing the homes of attackers' families, and his chief deputy proposed cutting some Arab neighborhoods off from the rest of the city.
[Brilliant move. Any Palestinian killer would lose not only their life, but the home they lived in - their family would not be able to pass out sweets, fly flags, receive mourners, or for that matter - live as well as they did. It is about time. If Hamas desires palestinian martyrs, they can take care of the families - after all, they are, they claim, a social organization like the Red Cross / Crescent.]
> Israeli Jews expressed anxiety about security, and Palestinians wondered what the violence would mean for their already tenuous position in society.
> A day earlier, a Palestinian drove a huge earth-moving vehicle over cars and into buses, killing three Israelis and leaving a swath of wreckage on a main Jerusalem street before security forces shot him to death.
> The attacker, Hussam Dwayat, 30, of East Jerusalem, had no problem moving around the Jewish part of Jerusalem. After Israel captured the Arab section of the city in the 1967 Six-Day War, it gave residency and Israeli ID cards to the Arabs who lived there, giving them freedom of movement around Israel.
[This should be the headline - After Israel captured the Arab section of the city in the 1967 Six-Day War, it gave residency and Israeli ID cards to the Arabs who lived there, giving them freedom of movement around Israel. It gave to Arabs, residency and ID cards and freedom of movement. Contrast that with the treatment of Jews in Arab countries.]
> The attack brought calls to reconsider at least some of the benefits the 250,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem receive from the Israeli government.
[They should lose all their benefits. let me step back for a moment and say this has nothing to do with zionism - from a Palestinian perspective - I would be entitled to what I have and what palestinians are given is not full fledged protection or freedom. Treatment is more similar to second class citizenship than full freedom. However, I am not arguing the Palestinian side - nearly every major newspaper in the world does that quiet well. From an Israeli perspective - why give anything to people who support, condone, aid, and abet those who blow things up, terrorize, and kill. Take away benefits until the community polices itself. if they never do - you do not get the benefits.]
> "I think we have to be tougher in part of the measures that we take against terrorists, especially terrorists who are part of our internal fabric of life," Olmert told an economic conference at the Red Sea resort of Eilat.
[He THINKS they have to be tougher. THINKS.]
> "If we have to demolish houses, we will demolish houses," he said. "If we have to revoke social rights, we will revoke social rights. It's inconceivable that we are slaughtered, and they will have all the privileges that our society grants our citizens."
> Israel had in 2005 stopped the practice of demolishing the homes of Palestinian attackers after the military determined that it did not work as a deterrent.
[It will not be a deterrent, BUT it acts as punishment. Someone would say - but it doesn't punish the killer, for he is dead, it only punishes innocent families. Bull. Those families are as innocent as Hillary was unaware that Bill was fooling around. Those families may not have pulled the trigger or pushed the button, but they were integral to the development of the killer.]
> Olmert's dovish vice premier, Haim Ramon, proposed cutting off the attackers' home village and others in East Jerusalem, where about 50,000 Arabs live, by rerouting the West Bank separation barrier to put the villages outside Jerusalem's boundaries. It was a rare call by a senior Israeli official to effectively redivide Jerusalem, reflecting concern that preventing attacks by Jerusalem's Palestinians is virtually impossible.
> Yesterday, police forbade Dwayat's family from setting up a mourning tent at his home in the village of Sur Baher.
[Good, now ask the family to leave - pay them enough to move their crap out, then demolish the home, and build a new home for a Jew upon the rubble.]
> In another development, Palestinian extremists fired a rocket at Israel, violating a June 19 truce, the military said. No one was hurt, but Israel's Defense Ministry decided to close Gaza crossings today in response, cutting off vital supplies. The Hamas government in Gaza called the closure a breach of the cease-fire.
[This is the 3rd rocket fired since the truce ... which means, it isn't a truce, its a slow-down. From ten a day to one every seven days. It's a vacation period for them. The Israeli government closed Gaza crossing as a result of the rocket attack ... and Hamas says the closing is a violation of the truce?????? How about the rocket attacks? Aren't they violations? When Israel kills a top Hamas commander, Hamas swears vengeance up and down their beards against Israel, yet when Hamas attacks Israel, Hamas expects Israel to just accept the attacks and not respond. Insanity that is.]
Here is an excellent idea: If Sam decides to martyr himself, his home will be destroyed, and his family will be made homeless. In the place of every home torn down, Israel will construct a home for an Israeli somewhere else. Whatever remains of the martyr will be buried in pig skin in a large unmarked grave, upon which the Israelis will dump the ashes from all cremated dogs.
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