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Billo_Really,
As noted in my post, there is a judicial review process. If people feel that their homes were unlawfully razed, they have legal recourse. In fact, even some Palestinians recognize that the terrorists are responsible for Israel's having to take measures in self-defense. For example, on July 17, 2006, The Washington Post reported:
Mariam el-Selgawi, a neighbor who fled her home with her eight children and elderly in-laws, said she knows why the Israelis are back.
"Because of the rockets, everyone is launching rockets" from the agricultural areas inside the Gaza Strip over the border at Israeli towns, she said. "Days before, there was a group trying to shoot a rocket, and they were hit by a missile from a drone, and all of them died.
"All the time I get in fights with them when they come. They know it will bring Israel back to the area," she complained of the Palestinians firing the projectiles. "The last time I said: 'The Israelis are going to come and kill us.
Aren't you afraid you're going to make us orphans?' And one of them said: 'We will launch the rockets from your house. You deserve it,' " and they fired it from outside her fence, she said.
Her father-in-law, Ali el-Selgawi, 76, sat forlornly on the linoleum schoolroom floor that is the family's latest bed, sipping juice and shaking his head. "You can't talk to them, or they just hit you," he said.
In any case, I ran through a sample of recent news stories concerning the practice. No story provided any evidence that Israel was destroying homes or other instrastructure that was not being used by Palestinian terrorists. A quick sample of stories follows:
"Israeli troops, backed by tanks and armored bulldozers, also pushed inside the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, a staging area for the rocket attacks."
Source: The Washington Post, September 27, 2007.
"Soldiers in dozens of vehicles and two bulldozers surrounded a branch of the Palestinian military intelligence agency during the 2:45 a.m. assault and met little resistance, Israeli and Palestinian spokesmen said... An Israeli military spokeswoman said the raid, a four-hour joint operation by the army and Israel's domestic intelligence service, was aimed at wanted Palestinian militants who had taken refuge in the compound. She said 18 militants were arrested."
Source: Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2007.
"The incursion targeted orchards used by militants for launching rockets over the border, the Israeli army said. Within hours of the tanks' withdrawal, the military wing of Islamic Jihad launched several rockets that landed near the southern Israeli town of Sderot and wounded two children, an Israeli army spokesman said."
Source: Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2006.
"Israeli bulldozers demolished several homes that the army said were being used as cover by those firing rockets and mortars."
Source: The New York Times, December 18, 2004.
As noted in my post, there is a judicial review process. If people feel that their homes were unlawfully razed, they have legal recourse. In fact, even some Palestinians recognize that the terrorists are responsible for Israel's having to take measures in self-defense. For example, on July 17, 2006, The Washington Post reported:
Mariam el-Selgawi, a neighbor who fled her home with her eight children and elderly in-laws, said she knows why the Israelis are back.
"Because of the rockets, everyone is launching rockets" from the agricultural areas inside the Gaza Strip over the border at Israeli towns, she said. "Days before, there was a group trying to shoot a rocket, and they were hit by a missile from a drone, and all of them died.
"All the time I get in fights with them when they come. They know it will bring Israel back to the area," she complained of the Palestinians firing the projectiles. "The last time I said: 'The Israelis are going to come and kill us.
Aren't you afraid you're going to make us orphans?' And one of them said: 'We will launch the rockets from your house. You deserve it,' " and they fired it from outside her fence, she said.
Her father-in-law, Ali el-Selgawi, 76, sat forlornly on the linoleum schoolroom floor that is the family's latest bed, sipping juice and shaking his head. "You can't talk to them, or they just hit you," he said.
In any case, I ran through a sample of recent news stories concerning the practice. No story provided any evidence that Israel was destroying homes or other instrastructure that was not being used by Palestinian terrorists. A quick sample of stories follows:
"Israeli troops, backed by tanks and armored bulldozers, also pushed inside the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, a staging area for the rocket attacks."
Source: The Washington Post, September 27, 2007.
"Soldiers in dozens of vehicles and two bulldozers surrounded a branch of the Palestinian military intelligence agency during the 2:45 a.m. assault and met little resistance, Israeli and Palestinian spokesmen said... An Israeli military spokeswoman said the raid, a four-hour joint operation by the army and Israel's domestic intelligence service, was aimed at wanted Palestinian militants who had taken refuge in the compound. She said 18 militants were arrested."
Source: Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2007.
"The incursion targeted orchards used by militants for launching rockets over the border, the Israeli army said. Within hours of the tanks' withdrawal, the military wing of Islamic Jihad launched several rockets that landed near the southern Israeli town of Sderot and wounded two children, an Israeli army spokesman said."
Source: Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2006.
"Israeli bulldozers demolished several homes that the army said were being used as cover by those firing rockets and mortars."
Source: The New York Times, December 18, 2004.
Vader...quit the name calling, immediately, or I see a thread ban in your future, at the very least. Dougie, please do not respond in kind.
