(Access/Middle East) Justus Reid Weiner - Anyone who has studied the laws of war or has served in an army knows: Houses or physical property can be destroyed, but they can also be rebuilt; human bodies beyond a certain point have no possibility of survival or return. If it is necessary to demolish structures in order to prevent or to reduce the smuggling of weapons for terrorists, it is certainly a reasonable action to be taken not just by the Israeli army. Any army, after nearly four years of daily terrorism, would likely do the same, or more. As a member of Amnesty International, I am disappointed. I keep hoping that they will improve their act vis-a-vis Israel and begin to understand what’s going on here. Amnesty talks about Palestinian armed groups - but they never refer to them as terrorists. Their analysis fails to acknowledge that what we have here is a situation of rampant terrorism, supported or left untouched by the Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat. People who live here know better.
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