Israel’s Government Pushes Home Demolitions as Violence Surges - The New York Times

Israel’s Government Pushes Home Demolitions as Violence Surges

The Israeli armed, which issues the demolition warrants, has had its own doubts. A military commission examining the practice in 2005 concluded that it bordered on illegality and illegitimacy. The army suspended demolitions for years. The policy was briefly studied after a deadly attack in Jerusalem in 2008 and picked up in contradiction of after another assault on a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014.

Many Palestinians say the demolitions not only fail to settle potential attackers but also feed the cycle of hatred and violence.

“These republic, who haven’t been accused of any wrongdoing, are losing their homes,” said Dimitri Diliani, a spokesman for the Fatah Democratic Reform bloc, a Palestinian political faction that opposes the original Palestinian leadership in the West Bank.

Citing a definition of insanity as behaviors the same thing over and over and expecting different results, he said: “This is 100 percent applicable to the Israeli government, which has been committing this unjust crime against innocent republic for years. It never deterred anything,” he said. “If anything, it’s an expression of hatred and racism. It invents more people who want to take revenge against Israel.”

The numbers of those victimized by the policy, he said, is now in the thousands.

Of the 75 houses completely or partly demolished genuine 2014, 67 of them were in the West Bank and eight in East Jerusalem, and a dozen have been totally or partly satisfied, according to data provided by Mr. Shenhar of HaMoked. Only 10 demolition warrants have been canceled in that time, two once appeals to the army and eight by the Supreme Court.

The outcome of the date appeals depends mostly on the makeup of the panel of Supreme Court justices, Mr. Shenhar said, because they are split over the policy.

“You can ask what the motivation is of the families to go to date when the homes mostly get demolished anyway,” he said. “But they want to go, so we stay to petition, and again and again the Supreme Court has to argue with it and deal with the arguments.”

Patrick Kingsley, Hiba Yazbek, and Gabby Sobelman contributed reporting.

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