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To: Bilow who wrote (30768)	5/26/2002 8:07:23 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The IDF destroyed her home yesterday. We had a post, back at the start of this thread, the Pershing, in the Philippines, announced a policy of burying Muslim guerillas in a pigskin, and that this stopped the Muslim guerillas. I don't know is this was true, but, as bad as things have got in Israel, they might give this a try. (I know, the courts would never let them get away with it.)

To: Bilow who wrote (30768)	5/26/2002 1:36:11 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

The bulldozer thing has been IDF SOP for as long as I can remember, I don't know if it goes all the way back to '67 but it might. This story is from '88; the newspaper db I use gets pretty thin before that. Neither side much needs to ask "why do they hate us?" on that front. Israeli Troops Accused In American's Death San Francisco Chronicle (Pre-1997 Fulltext); San Francisco, Calif.; Aug 4, 1988; Jerusalem The son of a Palestinian American man filed an affidavit yesterday claiming that Israeli soldiers caused his father's death, believed to be the first of an American citizen since the uprising in the occupied territories began in December. Jamal Kayed, 32, filed papers with the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem claiming that Israeli soldiers were responsible for the death of his father, Ribhi Barakat Kayed, 67, a former grocer in Milwaukee. The elder Kayed died of a heart attack on Saturday. Kayed said his father died while Israeli soldiers were escorting him from his retirement home in Beitin, near Ramallah in the West Bank, to force him to clean anti-Israeli graffiti from a stone wall across the street. The elder Kayed told the soldiers that he was ill and needed his heart medicine, but they ignored his pleas and those of relatives who were at the house, Kayed said. An army spokesman denied that Israeli soldiers were responsible, saying that they had asked Jamal Kayed's 14-year-old nephew to clear the graffiti but that the boy's grandfather insisted on accompany- ing him. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said, "I believe that it is the first case of the death of an American citizen since the uprising began" eight months ago. She said the U.S. Embassy has raised the issue with the Israeli government. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, soldiers using bulldozers, tractors and explosives demolished the homes of 10 Palestinians as punishment against the families of people who allegedly threw gasoline bombs at army and civilian vehicles. They sealed off two additional houses. . . .