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Easy to see why this pushed Teitel off the front pages.

Middle says:
We don’t give Palestinian terrorists’ families the same benefit of the doubt
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Because there usually is no doubt. It’s usually a family – if not communal affair, not cloaked in secrecy.

Which leads directly to the need for deterrence – because of the Arab adulation of terrorists. Despite attempted spin by left-wing media, such lionizing of the terrorist is never in evidence when an Israeli loon takes things into his own hands.

Here’s an article that covers both the legal aspects and history of these house demolitions. It appears the law existed under British mandatory rule.

Does anybody know what the actual policies are surrounding tearing down Arab terrorists’ homes? Did it arise as a response to Saddam Hussein’s payments to suicide bombers’ families? Or did it come from somewhere else?

See, I think if we were to be completley equitable, we would say equal punishment for equal crime and the issue would become simple. You engage in terror, your family loses their homes.

We can play the lawyer’s game of “distinguishing” one case from the other ad nauseum. Some of the distinctions are already mentioned: family involvement, for example. Also consider that his terrorism was not designed to destory the state, but to destory societal aspects he disapproved of; Jewish terror is not widespread or a phenomenon that needs to be deterred like Palestinian terror; and so on. The fact remains, however, he is a terrorist. Israel should deal with all terrorists in the same way.

Why doesn’t this guy qualify as a ‘real’ psychopath?

This guy’s arrest was timed to give the Israeli press something to run for “Rabin memorial” week.

Unfortunately for them, a more gruesome – and successful! – Russian immigrant murderer was nabbed that same week… stealing headlines and reminding us what a real psychopath looks like.

Now they’re trying to revive this story, but it’s pretty cut-and-dried… they arrested a neighbor of his, trying to flog the “right-wing underground” angle like they did when Rabin was killed – but no such thing exists, the neighbor had done nothing and known nothing, this is a lone loony.

Middle writes:
if Israelis learned that terrorism means their families lose their homes, then the likelihood of another Jewish terrorist will become much, much smaller.
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Well, no.
Even this nutter was careful not to let anyone in his family in on what he was doing. He already knew the law would come down hard if he were ever caught.

… and the last time I checked – Israel already turned 10,000 settlers out of their homes, for no reason at all. Which kinda guts any deterrent factor… Maybe left-liberals should consider that the next them they throw due process under the bus in the name of shiny Progress…

By the way, the Arabs have found means of getting money to the family of terrorists. It was a form of payment to the terrorist and it was also a form of insurance – “if you sacrifice your life to murder Jews, we’ll take care of your family, even if they lose their home.” The same might happen here, where sympathy for the Jewish family might get them some support. That’s not the point. If he’s guilty, this man’s home should be destroyed.

I think it would send a powerful message to the world that Israel sees all terrorists as the scum they are and punishes them equally.

On the other hand, how would much of the Israeli public respond to Jews being evicted from their homes for the actions of a family member? What I’m getting at, is would they somehow see this dirtbag’s family as deserving some sort of different treatment? I really don’t know the answer.

I don’t know whether the same laws apply here since usually the terrorists and their families are not Israeli citizens, and his family are Israeli citizens, but what he allegedly did is murder of civilians for ideological reasons and that’s terrorism. His home should be sealed or destroyed just as in the case of Palestinian terrorists.

Will the Israeli authorities demolish his home or his family’s home?