NEW YORK – The decision by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government to demolish the family home of Abdelrahman al-Shaludi, a Palestinian who rammed his car into a group of pedestrians, killing two (including a three-month-old baby), was both callous and counterproductive. By punishing people whose only known offense was being related to a criminal, Israel inadvertently shifted the focus from the attack, the perpetrator of which was killed immediately after his crime, to Israel’s apparent embrace of a policy of collective punishment.
以色列总理本雅明内塔尼亚胡政府拆毁驾车撞向一群行人，造成两人死亡（其中包括一名三个月大的婴儿）的阿尔沙鲁迪家房屋的决定既冷酷无情又适得其反。通过惩罚那些唯一已知罪行是与犯罪份子有关的人，以色列无意间把注意力从恐怖袭击和行凶后当场死亡的罪犯转向了显而易见的集体惩罚政策。