In photos: Israeli soldiers destroy kidnapping suspects’ family homes in retribution attack

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/soliders-kidnapping-retribution.html

Israeli Defense Forces raided the homes of Amar Abu Aisha and Marwan Qawasmeh in the city of Hebron on Monday evening, June 30th into the morning of July 1st. At approximately 12:00 am, soldiers set up explosives in both homes, detonating them after the families were evacuated. Israeli intelligence has accused both men of allegedly kidnapping the settler teens. The whereabouts of both men are unknown.

Amar Abu Aisha’s father was arrested four days ago and two of his sons were arrested fourteen days ago.

Umm Sharif, Marwan Qawasmeh’s mother, recounted how the IDF had delayed the transport of her husband to the hospital, who has cancer and suffers from asthma. Marwan’s wife and 2-month-old nephew were taken to the hospital after sustaining moderate injuries from the blast but have since recovered. His wife was summoned for questioning this morning at Atzion Prison along with Marwan’s sister and brother.

I guess that justice was served somehow, even though there have been, no arrests, no trials, no convictions.

[PeoViejo]

1. Nothing like a little collective punishment to bring back some dark History

Will people never learn?

[Jake Stern]

2. They don't need no stinkin' trials!

Apparently, to Israel, the legal process is for wimps, bleeding heart liberals and anti-semites.

[mwrguy]

3. Terrorists states gonna terrorize

Birds gonna fly, fish gonna swim.

[azurnoir]

4. Israel feels this is restrained response

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The Fourth Geneva Convention, article 53, prohibits “any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons.”

Critics of home demolitions argue that it constitutes a punishment delivered without a trial, that it amounts to collective punishment — which in itself is illegal under international law — and that research has shown that anyway it is not effective in deterring terrorists from carrying our their plans.

“Many years ago, Israel used home demolitions extensively, but over time we went over to filling the houses with brick and mortar instead of demolishing them,” said Joel Singer, who served as the head of the international law department in the IDF Judge General Advocate’s Court, and later as legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry.

Filling the home of the terrorist and thus rendering it useless was chosen as a punishment for two reasons, Singer explained: it is reversible and, since it is not a complete destruction, it doesn’t really violate the prohibition against home demolitions.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-invasion-or-house-demolitions-israel-still-likely-to-come-under-fire/

[Shaktimaan]

5. Lovely comments over there.

Mooser on July 1, 2014 at 8:40 pm
“What the h-ck is wrong with you boy?!”

It’s simple. It is not in the interest of Zionists to portray themselves, or Jews ghenerally, as people who are fit to live in equality with other people. They seek to portray Jews as people who must rule over the people around them.
Anything they can do convey the message that Jews can’t live with others is, to them, good for Zionism.
And Jews, affluent Western Jews, if possible, who are compelled to go to Israel because of persecution in their native lands? That’s their wet dream. They look forward to owning the rest of us, if they can just turn the world against us.
But when the time comes, we’ll have to pull their Zionist asses out of the fire they made for themselves, and probably pay to clean up the mess they made. And then try to forget we ever did anything so stupid as steal a country.

It’s a pogrom. And the Palestinians would be well within their rights to respond in kind, with force. And since the Israelis, by this attack, have shown that they don’t give a damn if someone is innocent or not, they’ve just made every Israeli, anywhere in the world a possible target. May they reap what they sow and this devilish act be cast back on the Israelis a hundred fold.

You are a despicable monster from a nation of monsters.

I hope you and your cult go the way of Nazi Germany and other fascist societies.

Only in Israel, can you pick on people weaker than you.

You and your fellow Zionist Jews are cowards and criminals.

Woody Tanaka on July 1, 2014 at 12:55 pm
“Of course Israelis are proud of their sons and daughters.”

Yeah, nothing says “pride” like watching your young terrorists in unform torture innocent Palestinians… What a diseased society you Zionists have for yourselves there.

Their readership is nothing if not passionate. They seem like objective folks to me... How about you? Reasonable people over there at mondoweiss?

The weird part is that this isn't even really the offensive shit.

[cali]

6. Vile- and why I wouldn't use Meadowiss as a source

it's a hotbed of ugly.

[azurnoir]

18. Thanks for the hattip Shakti

in the future we'll make it a point to post the talkbacks from what is posted here capital idea yessiree it is

[Shaktimaan]

19. It's informative.

To see exactly who MW's readership is composed of.

[azurnoir]

20. I think the same could be said about the 'readership' of a number of places we see used here

sure you wish to go that route?

[azurnoir]

22. well I guess cherry picking 4 comments out over 200 is informative alright

especially when a distraction is needed

[shira]

7. Mondoweiss is a sewer for the worst antisemites...

Here's one example after the next....

http://mondotruth.tumblr.com/

And there's plenty more.

[Jefferson23]

8. Who owns and runs that website? I could not find any names. You wish to go down

the road to begin a contest of which publications have more offensive comments than others?
From Harretz to Arutz Sheva you will find a full spectrum of negative.

Good luck with your contest, as you'll likely break even at best or lose altogether.

[shira]

9. This isn't about comments below each article. Mondoweiss' articles R hateful....

You'd realize that if you read what's on that link and clicked onto each article at the Mondoweiss site.

[Jefferson23]

10. You have no answer as to who owns and runs that website, ok.

Seems they don't want to identify themselves...I can understand why.

[shira]

11. Don't let the facts confuse you. Just ignore the links to Mondoweiss hatred.

Focus instead on attacking the messenger.

Okay, I get it.

[Jefferson23]

12. Again, No answer. You want to be a critic of Mondoweiss by posting from an anonymous source

and you expect people to accept it.

Good luck.

[shira]

13. Click the links to Mondoweiss showing the hatred....

Or keep ignoring and defending that hatred.

It's that simple.

Either it's hatred or it's not.

[Jefferson23]

14. I can only surmise the website you're selling does not want to be identified. You're engaging

in a futile contest and your source btw, does in fact link back to what other websites claim
someone at Modoweiss said..not the original documents.

You charge so many publications with a broad brush, it's
ridiculous. Do they have offensive clueless OP's on occasion..I would
say,yea. I find OP's on many American publications pushing propaganda
reflecting anti Arab/Muslim sentiments frequently. NYT, WSJ, are just two.

If I refuse to read any of these publications due to that problem, I will
have very little to pick from.

[Shaktimaan]

16. Seriously?

You're being sarcastic right? Everyone knows Phillip Weiss runs MW

Edit. Never mind. I misunderstood.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. I was getting worried about you, shira.

You didn't show up right away to try and divert attention from Israeli atrocities.

But I'm glad you are back to your old song and dance of adding nothing except poorly thought out diverions.

[Shaktimaan]

17. Problem being..,

Mondoweiss exists solely to promote anti-Zionist news/ideology/propaganda. It's not a site with enough credibility to take at face value. There's no way of knowing how much of any of their posts are true; almost all of them are misleading via omitting key facts; some end up being total fabrications.

Nothing written there is worth discussing without verification first. They don't just omit the other side of the story. They actively suppress it. Any commenter there who is too Zionist friendly gets banned in short order.

[azurnoir]

21. so is this article truthful or not? are you saying that no ransacking and destruction of Palestinian

homes has taken place?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

23. Are you typing this from a prepared script, shak?

Seriouly, every time a news source is critical of Israel there us always the same pablum dredged up to discredit the source.

But are you saying that the photos are lying?

Try not to strain yourself carrying all those excuses for the IDF.