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Originally Posted by Kevin
Secondly, I believe the policy of bulldozing houses had something to do with retaliating against suicide bombers' families or terrorist collaborators. I find Israel's policy here to be reasonable. It's a lot like a civil forfeiture proceeding in the U.S., except that with the current situation in Gaza, Israel technically "owning" someone's home via civil forfeiture would be meaningless as no one would respect their property right. Let's not forget that in the vast majority of these cases, the people in those homes knowingly raised kids as murderers or cohabitated with individuals conspiring to murder innocent civilians. That is not a blameless situation and to pretend to be shocked and appalled in these situations completely ignores the reality of the situation and the fact that Israel has a right to defend itself.
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So, you commit a suicide bombing and the American government has the right to kill your family? Thats reasonable?
A civil forfeiture would only make sense if it were in the US. A CF claim could not be made on land in Iraq. It is not US land. Israel would have no property rights because it is a different country! They have NO property rights at all.
The idea that most people are raising their kids to be murderers is total crap.
You keep saying that Israel has a right to defend itself. Isreal is not currently defending itself. Israel is attacking Gaza. Two different things.