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2018-12-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

As one Palestinian family’s history shows, home demolitions won’t stop attacks

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 home demolitions won’t stop attacks

It will if they're in it

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-16 07:06|| 2018-12-16 07:06|| Front Page Top

Bill Sherman might disagree.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-16 07:09|| 2018-12-16 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 ...compare Charleston before the war to Charleston after Billy got done with it. Same could be said of some Japanese cities by the end of 1945. The Japanese had to relearn the lesson of not bombarding a federal military installation. Seemed to have worked in Germany too as both are among the least militaristic countries in the world today (vs their pre-WWII cultures). Although the Chinese seem intent on changing that in the Pacific.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-16 08:17|| 2018-12-16 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 It means they arent doing enough of it to make a dent in the money. And maybe chain the offender in the house before explosive demolition.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-16 13:33|| 2018-12-16 13:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Although some seem to believe destroying assailants’ homes is a comprehensive solution

Nice straw man, scarecrow! I doubt anyone actually believes that. A comprehensive solution would be repeated carpet bombing until the miscreants grow tired of their ways.

While we're at it, let's give the "collective punishment" meme a kick in the groin. The idea of knocking down a family home as punishment for the crimes of an individual seems strange to us in the West because we regard the individual as the basic element of society. Not so in clan-based societies. There, honor killings make sense because the woman has reduced the clan's reputation. Marrying a cousin makes sense because it keeps wealth inside the clan and doesn't drag the group into someone else's feuds. It is a different way of looking at the world. If it doesn't affect the clan, it doesn't really matter.

Posted by SteveS 2018-12-16 17:14|| 2018-12-16 17:14|| Front Page Top

#6 "some" or "critics say" mean absolutely NO real journalism is involved. It's bias reflected in a "report" that fulfills an agenda

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-16 17:26|| 2018-12-16 17:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Why stop with their house? Destroy the neighborhood and the people in it. Dead people don't commit terrorism. Though they do vote democrat and Hezbollah.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-12-16 17:46|| 2018-12-16 17:46|| Front Page Top

#8 It's only a matter of scale.

Posted by KBK 2018-12-16 18:29|| 2018-12-16 18:29|| Front Page Top

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