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Israeli Government Insists on Dismantling Gaza Synagogues
(Jerusalem Post) Dan Izenberg - * The Israeli government on Tuesday asked the High Court of Justice to reject the petition calling on it to seek Palestinian or international guarantees for the survival of the Gaza Strip synagogues and to leave them intact even if no such guarantees are forthcoming. * According to the response to the court submitted by the state's representative, attorney Avi Licht, it is not in Israel's interest to ask for international protection. The international community has not intervened to protect Israel from Palestinian terrorism, and Israel is not interested in having an international force dispatched to protect the synagogues. An international presence in Gaza would only hamper Israel's future attempts to fight back against Palestinian terrorism. * Licht also rejected arguments that the destruction of synagogues by Israel would encourage other governments to destroy the synagogues in their lands. He wrote that the situation in Gaza, where there is no law and order, was different from those in sovereign states with effective governments. If anything, wrote Licht, the pictures of Palestinian mobs destroying the synagogues might encourage mobs in other lands to do the same.