Why should Israel destroy attacker's home? Isn't it a collective punishment?

Question

Read this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7490212.stm

What is the idea behind that action from the Israeli authorities?

Answer 1

As this effects only his family it would not in fact be collective punishment that involves a large population.

I agree there is no victory or benefit to this, if it is this way.  Seems to me right after the incident someone was saying he was upset because he had been told his house would be one of many demolished to make room for new construction.

Which is the truth?

Answer 2

I can assure you that they will steal that land once the native Palestinian people's houses are demolished.

I yearn to see the day when the Palestinians will do the same to the Jews. Nothing lasts for ever.

I found this article. It clearly says the attacker was a drug addict and probably acted under the influence. He had a Jewish girlfriend and even fathered a child with her. Terrorist my foot.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_o...

Answer 3

Israel has engaged in military operations, including the demolition of homes, in the Rafah refugee camp, in an effort to curtail Palestinian smuggling operations. Rafah is a city in the Gaza Strip that is divided by the border with Egypt. Palestinians began building tunnels in the area in 1982 to smuggle various items under the Israel-Egypt border fence. Since 1994, when Israel turned the area over to its control, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been responsible for security in the area. While the PA initially worked to stop the construction of tunnels, it now actively supports the smugglers.

To avoid detection of the tunnels, the Palestinians build them in civilian homes. In 2002, the IDF discovered 33 tunnels and, through mid-October 2003, another 36 were found.

The smugglers bring goods such as cigarettes, automobile parts, clothing, drugs, electronics, and foreign currency purchased or stolen in Egypt for resale in the Gaza Strip. Of even greater concern to Israel is the smuggling of terrorists and weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and launchers, rifles, explosives, and ammunition, which often make their way to the West Bank.

Large-scale Israeli operations against the tunnels coincided with intelligence reports that the Palestinians were attempting to smuggle more sophisticated weapons such as Katyusha rockets, which could hit Israeli cities, and Stinger missiles, which could shoot down Israeli civilian and military aircraft. These weapons are being brought in to support the terrorist operations of groups such as Hamas and the PFLP (with the help of Iran), as well as to arm PA security services.

Smuggling operations have intensified in the last three years as Israel has blocked other smuggling routes, and as the Palestinians have escalated their violent campaign against Israel. The reason that the homes of Palestinians are demolished by Israel is that they are used to conceal the tunnels connecting Gaza and Egypt. Many Palestinians in Rafah are impoverished and find involvement in the smuggling operations an opportunity to improve their economic situation because they are paid well to excavate the tunnels, transfer goods, and allow their homes to be used to hide the tunnels. The PA has given Palestinians an even greater incentive to participate in smuggling by offering them alternative housing in the nearby town of Tel-Sultan if Israel demolishes their homes. Some Palestinians have even lied about constructing tunnels in the hope that the IDF will demolish their homes and they can get nicer ones from the PA.

Answer 4

i admire the question and i really think israelis should start thinking abt it with clear heads not meat heads!!

what they'll benefit? absolutely nothing but more, countless endless attacks!

the concept of martyrdom within palestinians is something beyond the jews' immagination and it taunts them in their sleep. therefore, they think that by ending a population the problem would end with it.

they've been working on it for almost a century now .. and they got nothing, at the same time, claiming that they're the most powerful bla bla... and they couldn't gain the smallest of lands. they are a cursed society and will never set to rest for their doings.

Answer 5

It is collective punishment bc his family prob. didnt even know he was gonna do what he did.

Here in the USA this would be a criminal act, not a terrorist attack. but you know every thing the Arabs do is a "Terrorist" attack in Israel.

Answer 6

I have no idea.  Just like I have no idea where the n***s got the idea that to eliminate villages would win them friends in their occupied territories.

In the end, he who destroys brings destruction upon himself.

Answer 7

Yes it is called the Hitler collective punishment school.

Answer 8

It's the way God's chosen people choose to operate ! They have the nerve to then accuse others of terrorism & barbarism !

Answer 9

The claim is that demolishing a terrorist’s house has a deterrent effect on potential terrorists, If they know that their whole family would suffer, they’d think twice about killing Jews.

AND

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ol...

Answer 10

Perhaps the terrorist mind comes from terrorist upbringing!

Yes, it is a collective punishment with the hope that the next attacker will think twice before attacking.  

What I would like to see is all Muslims living in Judah and Samaria and "gaza" who do not recognize Israel or her right to exist to move to Muslim countries.  Every destroyed Muslim home brings us closer to that goal.

This will allow Israel a chance for long lasting peace, and that is how we will benefit from that.

Terrorism must end now.

Sincerely,

Ms. Miche ; })

Answer 11

No, it's not collective punishment, it's consequence for their involvement.

Martyr's families receive money from terrorist organizations.  

A countermeasure to this is for them to suffer consequence.

This doesn't look like a victim of collective punishment to me.. she looks like an accomplice.  She isn't mourning, she's celebrating that her son is a "shaheed!  shaheed!" (arab word for martyr.)  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbP45VON0...

Answer 12

unless you live in the middle east or israel you will never understand the importance of the family home to them. in a lot of cases it has been in the family for generations, with just extensions and renovations etc.

very common amonst arabs, is that when a son or daughter gets married they just live on another floor of the property or build an extension.

so with this in mind, the idea behind the demolishings, is that it will deter any would be killer or suicide bomber ( if he cares about his family) from any kind of terriosist act.

Answer 13

You must be on Ham-a$$'s  payroll seeing that all your ?'s & answers are always anti-semetic/Jewish...

Dawyyat's family are complicit in his  crazed killings of Jews..They call Dawyyat shiad/martyr & 'D' even cried out,Allah Akbar when on his murderous rampage.His family expressed no sorrow for the victims only that D loved the Jews..Yeah,so much he loved them to terrible deaths..

Some Israeli's think by destroying terrorists homes it would lead to deterrance by future terrorists.. I doubt it & think anyone whose treasonous towards Israel should be booted out to their respective countries..

Egypt today closed the Raffa crossing as many violent Gazan's attemted to go thru it..Injuring some Egyptian policemen too..  Why is it ONLY Israel whose condemened for whatever they do?????

Honey,you being Muslim you're aware even if it was collective punishment-which it's not,wouldn't deter Muslims at all! There's good & bad in all countries/religions so don't condemn Israel !!!!!

Answer 14

Israeli's are not all shameless and inhumane. Their human rights organisation Btselem have also pointed out that such collective punishment is beyond civilised behaviour, is brutal and unjust.

Answer 15

CuZ if other attackers see the attacker's family... without home... poor..

maybe they won't be attacker...they will think about their families.

Answer 16

They will actually destroy any house built without a permit as well. No matter who lives in it.

I hear it's more difficult for "internally displaced people" to get permits though.

Answer 17

Are Palestinians the first refugee population in history? Hardly. But they are surely the first refugees who, as a group, have categorically RESISTED RESETTLEMENT, instead living for decades as wards of the international community.   Indeed, in Gaza today, years after Israel renounced any territorial claims, there continue to be refugee camps. Why? Why -- other than to serve as incubators for hatred that produce recruits bent on martyrdom and mayhem -- are there Palestinian refugee camps in Palestinian territory?

http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middlee...

The trust deficit is exacerbated by the fact that after Israel quit the Gaza Strip in 2005, Palestinians, instead of building Singapore there, built Somalia and focused not on how to make microchips, but on how to make rockets to hit Israel.  Thomas Friedman

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/opinio...

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