Maybe I missed it, but what are the rewards for tearing down your own home? I get that they’ll be forced to pay more for the government to tear it down, but it didn’t say they were getting relocated, so why not just abandon the home if you’re going to have to leave anyway? I mean other than owing money to the government that you probably can’t pay anyway. I just wish the article explained the consequences of not paying for demolition either by the government or self-demolition so we can understand why they’re pressured to do it at all.
well it’s not exactly a hard guess. what have israelis been doing to Palestinians the past 8 decades?
Yeah I just mean, if you’re being forced out of your home and have to find another one anyway, why bother tearing it down. There must be a consequence or reward that’s not clear from the article, like help relocating or that they’ll hunt you down wherever you end up and punish you.
Seems if it was me and I had no hope of keeping my home and I’d have to start over elsewhere, I wouldn’t spend the money on tearing it down at all, just abandon it. Since I’d need that money to start over anyway. Just curious what the pressure is to tear down vs abandon if there’s no chance of staying either way.
Including that kind of info would hell to make people better empathize with the overall situation rather than just the government vs self demolition part.
look, they all voluntarily leaving… we totally didn’t force them out. they just tore their stuff down, and gave us the property.
The rewards is they don’t get killed. Yet.
My understanding is that they can just take the funds from your bank account or garnish from your paycheck (whether Israeli or Palestinian because the Palestinian Authority cooperates with Israel).
