Really? So you think this is collective punishment? by Sheri Oz

...it certainly is clear that murderous terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens and against Jews in other countries fall within the definition of collective punishment. We need to start labeling these as such at every opportunity.

Sheri Oz..
Israel Diaries..
30 August '19..










Israel is constantly being blamed by so-called pro-Palestinians of engaging in collective punishments against the Arab residents of the so-called “Occupied Palestinian Territories”. Here are just two examples of that canard:

Collective punishment - cowardly Israeli Occupation Force's pirates attacking, stealing, killing, vandalizing Palestinian fishers off the coast of #Gaza #Palestine @UAWC1986 pic.twitter.com/uycVrB6CSQ

— Freedom Flotilla (@GazaFFlotilla) August 11, 2019

And:

🇵🇸#Palestine : Collective Punishment. .
Israeli occupation forces blew up the house of the family of Palestinian prisoner Khalil Jabbarin in Yatta city in the southern of Hebron .. #10yearchallenge pic.twitter.com/Ww0xE0Dd34

— Shehab News (@ShehabAgencyEn) January 18, 2019

Let me now show you the undiscriminating collective punishment that nobody is talking about, such as this missile attack on an end-of-summer event in Sderot:



We can consider the following murders to constitute collective punishment:

17 YO Rina Shnerb (out swimming with her father and brother),
19-YO Dvir Sorek (returning home from his Yeshiva),
45-YO Ari Fuld (out shopping),
48-YO Mahmoud Abu Asba (in his apartment when missiles were fired from Gaza),
13-YO Hallel Ariel (asleep in her bed),
15-YO Malki Roth and Michal Raziel (having pizza together in Jerusalem), and too many more to name.

These murders were not personal. Any other Jew would have done just as well and, if the victim happened not to be a Jew, well he or she should have known better than to side with the Jews. (See the memorial list here for all those killed in terror attacks.)

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