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HRW: Punitive Israeli House Demolitions A 'War Crime'
[Ynet] Human Rights Watch... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... accuses Israel of 'deliberately and unlawfully punishing people not accused of any wrongdoing', says policy 'amounts to collective punishment'. Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of 'deliberately and unlawfully punishing people not accused of any wrongdoing', says policy 'amounts to collective punishment'.
All assets directly or indirectly tied to terrorists, including their homes and any other structure where they planned their crimes, and all remittances to them, should be seized and transferred to their victims, to do with what they will. If Israel hands over the homes of the synagogue butchers to the 24 orphans of Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Rabbi Kalman Levine, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky and Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, not only will justice be served. The children's inheritance of the homes of their fathers' killers will send a clear and demoralizing message to other would-be killers. Not only will their atrocities fail to remove the Jews from Israel. Every terrorist will contribute to the Zionist project by donating his home to the Jewish settlement enterprise. Just as Israel has repeatedly buckled under US pressure to release snuffies from jail, so it has bowed to US pressure to continue to fund the PA by transferring the tax revenues it collects on goods imported to the PA. Assuming that the government is too weak to stand up to the Americans, at a minimum it can see that the money is properly used. To that end, the Knesset should pass a law permitting Israeli terror victims to sue the PA for actual and punitive damages in Israel courts. The sums awarded to the victims should be taken from the tax revenues Israel collects for the PA. The law should apply retroactively to all victims of Paleostinian terror carried out since the establishment of the PA in May 1994. Not only should the law permit Israeli terror victims to sue the PA. It should dictate actions the Justice Ministry must take to assist them in bringing suit. Israel should also revoke citizenship and residency rights not only from snuffies themselves, but from those who enjoy citizenship and residency rights by dint of their relationship with the terrorists. Wives who received Israeli residency or citizenship rights though marriage to snuffies should have their rights revoked, as should the children of the terrorists. Today Israel is powerless to influence the hearts of our Arab neighbors. But we can influence their minds. We can deter them from attacking us. The actions set forth above: asset seizure, revenue seizure and citizenship/residency abrogation for snuffies and their dependents are steps that Israel can take today, despite the hostile international climate. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-23 |
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