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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
Israel implemented a policy of bulldozing homes as a response to suicide murders. It appears to have worked, there is a dramatic decrease in suicide attacks. Parents now beg their kids to ignore the Hamas thugs, afraid of their homes being destroyed. Terrible it got to that. Israel would have preferred peace.
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Unfortunately none of this is verifiably true. In fact, sources from both sides (including the Israeli army) have stated something contrary to your belief:
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Israel stopped using home demolitions as a punitive measure in 2005 following an Israeli army report that said the policy did not act as an effective deterrent against terrorism
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http://972mag.com/the-return-of-puni...litions/92503/
In fact, your claim about parents now begging their children seems like nothing more than the same justification IDF gave at the outset.
It is terrible it got to "that," "that" being a violation of IHL, laws which, conveniently, Israel chooses not to acknowledge:
http://web.stanford.edu/group/scai/i...emolitions.pdf