February 18, 2005
ALL THE THINGS SHARON WOULD NEVER DO...:
Israel Ends Razing of Homes Tied to Bombers (Laura King, February 18, 2005, LA Times)
Israel announced Thursday that it was halting a practice particularly hated by Palestinians and repeatedly denounced by human rights groups: the demolition of the family homes of suicide bombers and other attackers.Posted by Orrin Judd at February 18, 2005 7:42 AMThe step was the latest on a growing list of goodwill gestures by Israel and the Palestinians meant to lay the groundwork for a return to full-scale peace negotiations under the Palestinian Authority's pragmatic new leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
The demolition of bombers' homes had struck a strong symbolic chord with Palestinians, who viewed the practice as an unjust form of collective punishment for attacks that have killed hundreds of Israelis in 4 1/2 years of fighting.
When you are confronted with an implacable enemy, it is pretty stupid to engage in tactics which that enemy doesn't 'particularly hate.' The reality is that the home demolitions worked, even though it would have been more better had the families of the terrorists been locked inside while they were ongoing.
Abbas seems smart enough to realize that he will get nowhere by terror tactics. His apparent success in stopping the terror demonstrates that all of Arafat's howling, and that of his enablers in the MSM, Europe, the US State Department and other cesspools, that he couldn't stop the terror because of those nasty Israelis, turned out to be so much garbage.
Posted by: Bart at February 18, 2005 8:46 AM