This is ironic, since Israel had arbitrarily ordered the man's home demolished in 2005, as part of Israel's program of annexation and displacement.
"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."
The Zionists never miss an opportunity to pursue its agenda of annexing Palestinian land. Since this wasn't connected to any Palestinian militancy, this would simply be more Collective Punishment for the criminal actions of an individual, already killed for his crime.
"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."
The Zionists never miss an opportunity to pursue its agenda of annexing Palestinian land. Since this wasn't connected to any Palestinian militancy, this would simply be more Collective Punishment for the criminal actions of an individual, already killed for his crime.
After Jerusalem attack, Olmert calls for revival of home demolitions
Published: Thursday, July 3, 2008 | 5:02 PM ET
Canadian Press: Laurie Copans , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM - A day after a Palestinian construction worker's deadly rampage in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday called for reviving the practice of demolishing the homes of attackers' families, and his chief deputy proposed cutting some Arab neighbourhoods off from the rest of the city.
(This would be a furtherance of the 'Divide & Rule' tactics already being used by Israel.)
Israeli Jews expressed anxiety about security, and Palestinians wondered what the violence will 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 war, it gave residency and Israeli ID cards to the Arabs who lived there, giving them freedom of movement around Israel.
(Even though this is occupied Palestinian territory.)
The attack brought calls to reconsider at least some of the benefits the 250,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem receive from the Israeli government.
"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. "If we have to demolish houses, we will demolish houses. 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."
(They hardly enjoy equal rights, and Palestinians are killed in far greater numbers than Israelis. And this was not an act associated with the Palestinian resistance to Zionism's war.)
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.
Deputy Prime Minister 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 (Apartheid Wall) 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.
(The only way to ensure this is to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, negotiate the terms of a Palestinian state, and end Zionism's drive to annex all of Palestine.)
Four months ago, a Palestinian from a neighbouring village shot and killed eight young students at a rabbinical school in Jerusalem.
(A school which preached the Extremist for of Zionism, as a response to an Israeli attack which killed dozens of Palestinian civilians.)
On Thursday, police forbade Dwayat's family from setting up a mourning tent at his home in the village of Sur Baher.
A group of men sitting under a eucalyptus tree said some of Dwayat's relatives had been questioned by police. Dwayat's widow, Jamileh, sat on a sofa, wearing a long black dress and head scarf, biting her fingernails and greeting well-wishers with dark, sad eyes. Her two children had been sent to a cousin's house.
"He was a martyr," said one female visitor as she kissed Jamileh Dwayat on the cheeks in reference to the honorary title given to Muslims killed in attacks on Israelis. The attacker's father, Taysir, had earlier forced mourners to stop shouting "martyr" at the home, insisting to Israeli reporters that his son was under the influence of drugs during the rampage, was not motivated by hate, and that the family supported coexistence.
Police said the attacker apparently acted alone. He had a criminal record, police said, and had been ordered to demolish his home in 2005 because it was built illegally.
Residents of Sur Baher expressed concern about their jobs.
"I have always worked in Israel and I have great relations with my boss," said a man who would give only his first name, Moussa, for fear his Jewish employer at a west Jerusalem hotel would disapprove.
Meron Benvenisti, deputy mayor of Jerusalem from 1967 to 1979, said the vast majority of Palestinians in the city value the benefits linked to Jerusalem residency.
"The majority cherish their status. They would not try this (such an attack)," he said. "There is no way you can generalize, but the majority of east Jerusalemites would like the status quo to continue."
Many Jews in Jerusalem said all Arab residents of the city should be kept out of the Jewish side.
(That's called APARTHEID.)
Boaz Ariel, 43, a Jewish teacher at a theatre school, said he was steering clear of construction vehicles.
"It's not nice to say, but Israel is soft after these attacks," Ariel said as a bulldozer with sand passed next to him at a construction site for a light railway, the location of Wednesday's attack. "We shouldn't let them work here as long as there are attacks. ... We have to throw them out."
But one Jewish contractor said his company would go under if he couldn't employ Arabs from east Jerusalem. Foreign workers from China and Thailand are too expensive, he said. He gave only his first name, Dror, because he said his company bans employees from talking politics.
(And I'm sure they're not too happy dicsussing the practice of underpaying Arab labourers ...)
If Israel prevents Arabs from entering the Jewish side of Jerusalem, "at restaurants the dishes will all be dirty, and at hotels all the sheets won't be changed, and all construction work will stop because there won't be any workers," he said. "They keep our economy stable. We can never separate."
In another development, Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel, violating a June 19 truce, the military said. No one was hurt, but Israel's Defence Ministry decided to close Gaza crossings Friday in response, cutting off vital supplies. The Hamas government in Gaza called the closure a breach of the ceasefire.
© The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/080703/w070371A.html
Olmert wants Palestinian attacker's home destroyed: official
Agencies
Published: July 03, 2008, 14:43
Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants the house of the Palestinian attacker who killed three Israelis in a bulldozer rampage on Wednesday should be destroyed, an Israeli government official said on Thursday.
Olmert told defence and justice chiefs he was "very worried" over Wednesday's attack and the fatal shootings of eight seminary students in March had been perpetrated by Palestinians from Arab East Jerusalem.
(The two are entirely unrelated, but Israel knows it can link the two events for the foreign press' consumption.)
He called for a punishment that would prevent all further attacks, the official said.
(The only way to prevent violence is eliminate the policies which provoke and ensure violence.)
"We must use a punishment that would deter. We have to act with a tough hand, to negate social rights, to immediately destroy the homes of every terrorist from Jerusalem," Olmert said, according to the official.
Israel halted demolishing homes of Palestinians who were involved in attacks against Israel in response to human rights groups’ petitions.
(And reports from its own officials which revealed the policy doesn't work as a deterrent, and actually has the opposite effect.)
But, defence and legal officials discussed the issue on Thursday.
Some 20 people live in the bulldozer driver's family home, relatives said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10225728.html
Israeli Settler-Extremists Fire Mortars into W. Bank Village
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/402398.html
Palestinians Catch Settler-Extremist Attack On Film
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400996.html
In Bid to Provoke Gaza War, Settler-Extremists Fake Kidnapping
https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/9236/index.php
10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=811&CategoryId=1
Published: Thursday, July 3, 2008 | 5:02 PM ET
Canadian Press: Laurie Copans , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM - A day after a Palestinian construction worker's deadly rampage in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday called for reviving the practice of demolishing the homes of attackers' families, and his chief deputy proposed cutting some Arab neighbourhoods off from the rest of the city.
(This would be a furtherance of the 'Divide & Rule' tactics already being used by Israel.)
Israeli Jews expressed anxiety about security, and Palestinians wondered what the violence will 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 war, it gave residency and Israeli ID cards to the Arabs who lived there, giving them freedom of movement around Israel.
(Even though this is occupied Palestinian territory.)
The attack brought calls to reconsider at least some of the benefits the 250,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem receive from the Israeli government.
"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. "If we have to demolish houses, we will demolish houses. 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."
(They hardly enjoy equal rights, and Palestinians are killed in far greater numbers than Israelis. And this was not an act associated with the Palestinian resistance to Zionism's war.)
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.
Deputy Prime Minister 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 (Apartheid Wall) 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.
(The only way to ensure this is to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, negotiate the terms of a Palestinian state, and end Zionism's drive to annex all of Palestine.)
Four months ago, a Palestinian from a neighbouring village shot and killed eight young students at a rabbinical school in Jerusalem.
(A school which preached the Extremist for of Zionism, as a response to an Israeli attack which killed dozens of Palestinian civilians.)
On Thursday, police forbade Dwayat's family from setting up a mourning tent at his home in the village of Sur Baher.
A group of men sitting under a eucalyptus tree said some of Dwayat's relatives had been questioned by police. Dwayat's widow, Jamileh, sat on a sofa, wearing a long black dress and head scarf, biting her fingernails and greeting well-wishers with dark, sad eyes. Her two children had been sent to a cousin's house.
"He was a martyr," said one female visitor as she kissed Jamileh Dwayat on the cheeks in reference to the honorary title given to Muslims killed in attacks on Israelis. The attacker's father, Taysir, had earlier forced mourners to stop shouting "martyr" at the home, insisting to Israeli reporters that his son was under the influence of drugs during the rampage, was not motivated by hate, and that the family supported coexistence.
Police said the attacker apparently acted alone. He had a criminal record, police said, and had been ordered to demolish his home in 2005 because it was built illegally.
Residents of Sur Baher expressed concern about their jobs.
"I have always worked in Israel and I have great relations with my boss," said a man who would give only his first name, Moussa, for fear his Jewish employer at a west Jerusalem hotel would disapprove.
Meron Benvenisti, deputy mayor of Jerusalem from 1967 to 1979, said the vast majority of Palestinians in the city value the benefits linked to Jerusalem residency.
"The majority cherish their status. They would not try this (such an attack)," he said. "There is no way you can generalize, but the majority of east Jerusalemites would like the status quo to continue."
Many Jews in Jerusalem said all Arab residents of the city should be kept out of the Jewish side.
(That's called APARTHEID.)
Boaz Ariel, 43, a Jewish teacher at a theatre school, said he was steering clear of construction vehicles.
"It's not nice to say, but Israel is soft after these attacks," Ariel said as a bulldozer with sand passed next to him at a construction site for a light railway, the location of Wednesday's attack. "We shouldn't let them work here as long as there are attacks. ... We have to throw them out."
But one Jewish contractor said his company would go under if he couldn't employ Arabs from east Jerusalem. Foreign workers from China and Thailand are too expensive, he said. He gave only his first name, Dror, because he said his company bans employees from talking politics.
(And I'm sure they're not too happy dicsussing the practice of underpaying Arab labourers ...)
If Israel prevents Arabs from entering the Jewish side of Jerusalem, "at restaurants the dishes will all be dirty, and at hotels all the sheets won't be changed, and all construction work will stop because there won't be any workers," he said. "They keep our economy stable. We can never separate."
In another development, Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel, violating a June 19 truce, the military said. No one was hurt, but Israel's Defence Ministry decided to close Gaza crossings Friday in response, cutting off vital supplies. The Hamas government in Gaza called the closure a breach of the ceasefire.
© The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/080703/w070371A.html Olmert wants Palestinian attacker's home destroyed: official
Agencies
Published: July 03, 2008, 14:43
Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants the house of the Palestinian attacker who killed three Israelis in a bulldozer rampage on Wednesday should be destroyed, an Israeli government official said on Thursday.
Olmert told defence and justice chiefs he was "very worried" over Wednesday's attack and the fatal shootings of eight seminary students in March had been perpetrated by Palestinians from Arab East Jerusalem.
(The two are entirely unrelated, but Israel knows it can link the two events for the foreign press' consumption.)
He called for a punishment that would prevent all further attacks, the official said.
(The only way to prevent violence is eliminate the policies which provoke and ensure violence.)
"We must use a punishment that would deter. We have to act with a tough hand, to negate social rights, to immediately destroy the homes of every terrorist from Jerusalem," Olmert said, according to the official.
Israel halted demolishing homes of Palestinians who were involved in attacks against Israel in response to human rights groups’ petitions.
(And reports from its own officials which revealed the policy doesn't work as a deterrent, and actually has the opposite effect.)
But, defence and legal officials discussed the issue on Thursday.
Some 20 people live in the bulldozer driver's family home, relatives said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10225728.html Israeli Settler-Extremists Fire Mortars into W. Bank Village
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/402398.html Palestinians Catch Settler-Extremist Attack On Film
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400996.html In Bid to Provoke Gaza War, Settler-Extremists Fake Kidnapping
https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/9236/index.php 10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=811&CategoryId=1
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