The Wages of Restraint and Moderation
There is one little detail about the atrocity that took place this week in Tel Aviv that is being overlooked. A few nights ago a Palestinian suicide bomber named Abdullah Badran, operating as an agent of the “Islamic Jihad” based in Syria, carried out a terrorist atrocity in Tel Aviv at Syria’s orders. He blew himself up and murdered five Israelis, one a woman about to get married, and wounded about 50 others.
What is being overlooked is that one reason for this atrocity was that Israel’s government had just mindlessly decided that houses of Palestinian suicide bombers will no longer be demolished. Until recently, Israel made a practice out of demolishing homes of terrorists as a deterrent. But Israel was taking public relations flack for it. The ISM pro-terrorists were turning each demolition into a media circus. Israel’s own leftists were screaming that destroying the house of a terrorist was a far worse crime than mass-murdering Jewish children, as the Islamofascists do. And the Israeli army was exhausted and tired of being a political pounding post.
So just a few days before this latest atrocity, the policy was altered. No more demolitions. Not even if the house belonged to a mass murderer. Not even if the house was illegally constructed in the first place. Deterrence was just not worth the price of a little bad press.
The result has been five new Jewish graves.
The family of Abdullah Badran are having pot roast this evening at home.
4 Comments:
Where's the connection please?
Israel is being attacked by different enemies. Instead of sticking up for itself Israel is now paying the price for placing its security in the hands of those who could care less -- public opinion.
Where's the connection? When the bomber knows his family will not face repurcussions for his actions he is more likely to act. What you fail to do is remove yourself from a logical world and enter the illogical mind of an arab suicide bomber: kill jews and end up with 70 virgins.
I liked the old policy of demolition . The family should also be deported .
The policy made sense and was effective. The homicide bombers were being offered financial incentives as motivation. THe motivation was removed with the policy.
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