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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Confused
04.07.2008 22:51
"(Even though this is occupied Palestinian territory.)"
Are you saying Palestinians should or shouldn't be given freedom of movement around Israel?
Also wondering why the latest rocket fired from Gaza mentioned above passes without bracketed comment JT? - or profuse references in your other posts?
confused
As Predicted: Israel to Raze Criminals' Homes
05.07.2008 18:36
By Haaretz Service
Barak's order was mainly based on Thursday's announcement by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz stating that razing homes of terrorists is permissable by law.
Mazuz informed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Barak that rulings made by the High Court of Justice over the years clarify there is no constitutional barrier to demolishing the home of a terrorist, although there are legal obstacles in both the local and international arenas that must be considered.
However, Mazuz warned Friday that the order could still raise legal difficulties in the international law arena as well as in Israel's law considerations.
A security source on Friday added that Barak's decision is not likely to be implemented immediately, but rather marks only the first stage in a process leading up to the actual demolition.
An alternative option that had been voiced in recent days was to seal off the home of the East Jerusalem terrorist, so as to avoid causing damage to two other families who also live in the same building.
In response to Barak's order, human rights group B'Tselem called on Mazuz "not to sacrifice justice and morality on the altar of revenge." The group said that security experts had in the past concluded that the demolition of houses does not deter potential terrorists from carrying out attacks. B'Tselem maintains that these demolitions actually serve to fuel terror rather than eradicate it.
Mazuz arrived at his ruling on Thursday that the demolition was permissable after in-depth discussions, held at his office and at the State Prosecution office over the question of whether Israel is permitted under the law to demolish the home of the East Jerusalem terrorists.
Prior to the discussions, the Shin Bet security service and the Military Advocate General submitted to Mazuz their legal opinion on the matter. Barak and Olmert also submitted their views, both backing the demolition of the terrorists' homes.
Mazuz added that "the individual examination of the circumstances of each incident must be carried out by the Shin Bet and the army in coordination with the Justice Ministry, as is customary."
Earlier Thursday, Olmert reiterated his call to demolish the East Jerusalem home of Wednesday's terror attack perpetrator.
"This is an attack which came from within Israel, into Israel. It creates a string of scenarios we never thought we would have to deal with in the past. We have invested thousands in the construction of a security fence. While it has been very effective, it turns out that a fence cannot give us the answer to the problem of terror which comes from our side," he said.
Speaking from the Ceasaria business forum in the southern port city of Eilat, Olmert also said the social benefits of the terrorist's family should be taken away in light of the attack.
"I think we need to be tougher in some of the means we use against perpetrators of terror," Olmert told the conference. "If we have to destroy houses, then we must do so, and if we have to stop their social benefits, then we must do so. There cannot be a case where they massacre us and at the same time they get all the privileges that our society provides," he said.
Ramon: Cut off parts of East Jerusalem from capital
Vice Premier Haim Ramon (Kadima) told Army Radio on Thursday morning that Israel should treat the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Jabel Mukaber and Zur Baher as Palestinian villages, and revoke the permanent residency status of their residents.
Wednesday's attacker came from Zur Baher, and Jabel Mukaber was the home of the Mercaz Harav terrorist. In the aftermath of both attacks, Ramon called for the two neighborhoods to be entirely cut off from Jerusalem.
"One of the main reasons that the attack was carried out yesterday with such ease was because there are Palestinian villages that for some reason are called Jerusalem - Jabel Mukaber and Zur Baher. They need to be treated as we treat Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin and Nablus," Ramon told Army Radio.
"These are Palestinian villages that were never part of Jerusalem, they were annexed to the city in 1967. No Israeli has ever been there, and doesn't go near there," Ramon added, continuing, "If the separation fence was west of the two villages, which we all call Jerusalem, it would have been a lot harder to carry out these kinds of attacks. It's forbidden for [residents of the neighborhoods] to have Israeli identification cards. How many more Israelis will have to pay with their lives until this is carried out?"
Ramon also told Army Radio that he felt, as opposed to the prime minister and his fellow ministers, that demolishing the home of the terrorist's family would not prevent the next terror attack. However, he said that the house should be demolished anyway, if the law allows it.
"I doubt that demolishing the house will achieve what it aims to achieve, though if possible, the house must be razed. The laws must be made to fit the policy and we mustn't give up," Ramon said. "What we are permitted to do, we must do as soon as possible."
On Wednesday, following the attack, Olmert and Barak called for terrorists' homes to be razed, and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski echoed this sentiment.
Collective Punishment is a War Crime