Caroline Glick has a great suggestion. We should take a leaf out of the US method for dealing with drug dealers. Confiscation of assets. This often happens even in advance of a full conviction by a court.
How could Israel be criticised for doing to terrorists’ families what the Americans do for the relatively less severe crime of selling drugs? OK, they’ll still criticise us, but they’ll have to apply Israeli Double Standard Time™ to do it.
I’d also add that dumping the bodies in an anonymous hole or better still, cremating them, is another very significant punitive step we should be taking.
Column One: Responding to the slaughter.
With regard to the individual terrorists, the government has made much of its intention to destroy the homes of terrorists. While it sounds good, there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of this punitive measure, which is a relic of the British Mandate.
Rather than destroy their homes, Israel should adopt the US anti-narcotics policy of asset seizure.
All assets directly or indirectly tied to terrorists, including their homes and any other structure where they planned their crimes, and all remittances to them, should be seized and transferred to their victims, to do with what they will.
If Israel hands over the homes of the synagogue butchers to the 24 orphans of Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Rabbi Kalman Levine, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky and Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, not only will justice be served. The children’s inheritance of the homes of their fathers’ killers will send a clear and demoralizing message to other would-be killers.
Not only will their atrocities fail to remove the Jews from Israel. Every terrorist will contribute to the Zionist project by donating his home to the Jewish settlement enterprise.
