Israel destroys home of Netanya bomber

Reuters via Netscape ^ | 2002.05.11

[N00dleN0gg1n]

Israel destroys home of Netanya bomber

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel Friday blew up a six-apartment building that was home to a Palestinian suicide bomber whose killing of 29 people in an Israeli hotel was followed by an Israeli offensive in the West Bank.

"Israeli reservists and special engineering corps forces destroyed the home of Abdel-Basset Odeh, a Hamas activist, who carried out the murderous attack in Netanya's Park Hotel on March 27 on Passover eve," the army said in a statement.

Witnesses said the army ordered some 70 family members and other relatives of the suicide bomber to evacuate the four-storey building before they rigged it with explosives and blew it up.

The force of the explosion totally or partially destroyed eight other apartments in two adjacent buildings and shattered windows of scores of other houses. About 100 people were left homeless, residents said.

Palestinians and human rights groups say destroying houses of Palestinians involved in attacks on Israelis amounts to a collective punishment. Israel routinely undertook such house demolitions before it signed interim peace deals with the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993.

Two days after the Netanya bombing, Israel launched its biggest offensive in the West Bank since capturing the area in the 1967 Middle East war, declaring it would uproot militants behind a wave of attacks against Israelis.

Israel has since withdrawn to positions around Palestinian cities and towns, and soldiers have been launching surprise raids to make arrests, including an operation in Hebron on Friday in which two Hamas militants were detained.

[N00dleN0gg1n]

Israel routinely undertook such house demolitions before it signed interim peace deals with the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993.

Sounds like they've totally given up on Oslo. And rightly so.

What was the value of that house? Was it enough to offset the $25,000 from Saddam and the $1000 from the Saudis and however much a bomber's family gets from Syria?

This has got to piss off the neighbors, too. People talking about how they want their kids to be suicide bombers may start to become unpopular.

All in all, sounds like a good policy.

[hexpoppy]

It might even make family members think twice before encouraging one of the kids to become a suicide bomber..

[farmfriend]

bttt

[claptrap]

Israel will win this war she will incur heavy losses but she will win and decisively, you may ask yourself ( how does claptrap know this? ) claptrap is plugged into the all seeing eye, the record of the future, the word of the eternal. You are saying to yourself ( another foil hatter ) but I say to you the double minded broad is your path and many are those who keep company with you. The day of the Deciever is at hand he shall rule over you for three and one half years.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Thanks for those words of wisdom, claptrap. You are as aptly named as I am.

[MissAmericanPie]

Palestinians and human rights groups say destroying houses of Palestinians involved in attacks on Israelis amounts to a collective punishment"

So?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

the double minded broad is your path

What happens when the doubled minded broad meets the single minded guy?

[weikel]

It depends.

[CarolAnn]

"So?"

Really! Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? I think it's an excellent idea....

[Toddsterpatriot]

Palestinians and human rights groups say destroying houses of Palestinians involved in attacks on Israelis amounts to a collective punishment.

Yes, and about time.

[monkeyshine]

LOL

[powderhorn]

Instead of getting rich at the minimal cost of selling thier children into martydom, now the parents of suicide bombers have to consider that they may end up in worse poverty than they started out with. And now the neighbors are upset, too. Bummer.

[Lion's Cub]

Instead of getting rich at the minimal cost of selling thier children into martydom, now the parents of suicide bombers have to consider that they may end up in worse poverty than they started out with. And now the neighbors are upset, too. Bummer.

Naw.

While I support the policy on general principles (at least it inconveniences them for a bit), the truth is that you and I get to pay for brand new housing for them. It's our tax dollars that go over there to "rebuild" the place.

OTOH, judging by what we've seen of these people, demolishing their residences on a regular basis probably cuts down on the health risk in the area...

[bert]

>>>> a collective punishment<<<<

This is a great phrase to describe the process. Collectively the extended family is guilty and deserves collective punishment.

[N00dleN0gg1n]

I've always wondered why the "human rights groups" don't mind when the Palestinians use murder/suicide bombings as a form of "collective punishment" against the Jewish people.

[MissAmericanPie]

Funny how that works, huh?