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? asked in TravelAfrica & Middle EastIsrael · 1 decade ago

Why didn't the IDF collectively punish the terrorist settlers like they do with the Palestinians?

Whenever Hamas terrorists cause trouble innocent Palestinians get killed by Israel's policy of collective punishment. Why didn't the same thing happen to Jewish terrorists in Hebron when when they went on a rampage and burned down trees and homes and wouldn't leave private Palestinian land?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They are not in place to punish them,they are there to protect them from Palestinians,period. That is officially their role. If a group of settlers wish to stand along a path and viciously throw stones at Palestinian children attempting to enter their grade school,they can do that and the IDF is there to protect them from interference by Pals or the human-rights activists who often accompany children whose course to school is frequently thus impeded. If a settler murders a Palestinian in cold blood the IDF's job is to "investigate" for the record but proceeding with no intention of any real resolution; generally the matter is simply dropped. The settlers relation to the IDF is entirely comparable to the relation between the German police and the S.A. or "Brown-shirts" in pre-war Nazi Germany. The police were always on hand to make certain no one interfered with the "unofficial" activities of the Brown-shirts and to white-wash every homicide they committed. It is naive to expect that this sinister government will alter it's policy in this regard. If you are a so-called "settler" you can do anything you please to any Palestinian,any time and any where. You can shoot a child in cold blood. There is no hope for "reform"; this is a fundamentally evil government and it must be uprooted. Palestine,Israel,whatever you care to call it,needs a new government,entirely new,and the sooner this happens the better off our world will be.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    rape? it fairly is too huge a lie even for a hamas supporter. in certainty, israel became accursed for no longer raping(!!!) palestinian women persons i'm going to cite to you one among my previous solutions: there became a sociological examine paper i could seen some years in the past, and the main thesis of it became (i do no longer undergo in recommendations the authentic phraseology) that the the IDF infantrymen no longer rape the palestinian woman, by way of fact they racists, and that they no longer evaluate those woman as people on their point. as no IDF soldier ever raped a palestine woman, yet your purpose is outwardly to slander the Israeli military perchance you ought to use this physique of recommendations on your propaganda applications? (why i've got been given a feeling that the psychological point of the discussions sank below sea point in this subject remember?) edit: i admit did no longer examine the finished component you wrote by way of fact your creation became unfaithful so i concluded something coming from you would be as genuine. this is the clarification me referring basically to the 1st a million-2 sentences.

  • 1 decade ago

    Here is a typical Israeli settler verbally abusing a British film crew. Beware of foul language

  • dandyl
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I believe that every person committing a crime deserves the same punishment, and yes those settlers committing crimes will be punished, but its not the IDF responsibility to punish them,for that there are courts.The IDF responsibility is to protect its citizens from the countries enemies.

    The settlers are not going around bombing and killing people

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think Galahad covered the issue pretty comprehensively so I'll just answer that I agree with his analysis.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Nothing new!

    This's the way, it's always been.

    Why else would the whole world resent their nasty behind? For, these jews have always been UNfair, UNjust with savagery behavior when it comes to poor Palestinians. Not to mention the rest of the world.

  • Zeno
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Galahad nailed it all down pretty well.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because they reserve their cruelty for the Palestinians.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because they aren't affecting their own citizens.

    Any country would do the same.

    If the problem isn't directly affecting you, you would.

    You can't really compare settlers to Hamas though, who strap bombs to themselves and fire rockets into Israel.

    You have heard that the IDF are actually against them and have evicted many of them.

    I agree with you if anything that they need to be removed.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The settlers weren't attacking Israel.

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