At 07:46 5-12-01 +0200, Ilana Halupovich wrote: ><<Before somebody else would add this - suicide bombers' families, most >probably, *would* lose their homes. It's Israeli policy to blow or to seal >such homes whenever possible.>>
>Jeoren wrote ><<You have a brother in the Israeli military, right? Assume he kills a >Palestinian. How would you feel if the Palestinian Authority would blow up >*your* house in retaliation for what your brother did?>> >My brother is reservist, like most Israeli men ages 21-50. He is too old for >fighting unit - he is in rescue unit now. I rather he kills Palestinian, >than Palestinian kills him (funny me). You did not answer the question. Assume that your brother is still in a fighting unit (or think back to the time when he was). He kills a Palestinian, and the Palestinian Authority decides to destroy *your* home in retaliation. How would you feel about that? ><<How are they compensated? Does Israel provide them with a new house they >can move into immediately after their first house is destroyed? Or do they >receive some money to build a new house, and have to live in a tent in a >refugee camp till the construction is finished? Or perhaps, does Israel >evict an Israeli settler family and give the house to the Palestinian family >whose home was destroyed? Nah, probably not...>> >Excuse me, we have our signals crossed here. Israel is not compensating >families of murderers. You literally said "Suicide bombers' families, most probably, *would* lose their homes. It's Israeli policy to blow or to seal such homes whenever possible. (People *are* given about an hour to take their possessions out), but they would be well compensated". There is only one possible interpretation of that remark, and that is that Israel compensates families of suicide bombers when their homes are destroyed by Israel. >Saddam Hussein does. At the other hand, I think I >mentioned this before - if the terrorist was Israeli citizen he is "victim >of terrorism", How can an Israeli citizen who commits terrorism be a "victim of terrorism"? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l Tom's Photo Gallery: http://www.tom.vanbaardwijk.com
