Israeli home demolitions and suicide bombings form an escalating mutual cycle of violence

Evidence

The twenty-first century thus is not the first time Arab olive groves, old as the hills themselves, were shoveled away. If the clearing shovel is a tool of the State of Israel’s founding, the bulldozer has become a tool of terror, a weapon of sometime (massive) destruction (now, if lopsidedly, on both sides) extending the cycle of violence between suicide bombings and demolished homes, shattered dreams both. Rachel Corrie’s disfigured face serves as a haunting testament. Olive groves across stony terraces were stripped away from 1948 onwards, at first blush to make way for banana and citrus plantations, later for the modern marketplace of malls, and more recently yet for the dividing and divisive worlds of a Separation Wall. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 630