The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday afternoon that the house of Husam Taysir Dwayat, the Arab-Israeli terrorist who murdered three when he went on a rampage driving a bulldozer in July 2008, can be demolished.

Justice Edmond Levy wrote in the ruling that "considerations regarding the damage that will be done to the family do not stand against the chance that such an action will deter others from joining the bloody trail."

Levy's decision annulled an injunction against the demolition issued by a lower court following an appeal by Dwayat's father. In his ruling Levy wrote that "the appellant did not bring forward any comment which might claim against the deterrent effect of demolition. He did not succeed in refuting the state's claim that this means cannot be forgone if the desired result in to be achieved - minimizing the impact of terrorism. Furthermore, the demolition under discussion would be partial and would therefore constitute a measured response."

The father's "assertion that discrimination is at work here, usually a just argument for protection, cannot take root in the earth plowed so deeply by the wheels of the bulldozer driven by his son," Levy wrote.

In describing Dwayat's rampage, the justice wrote: "He had one aim - to sow death and destruction on as wide a scale as he could. Three Israelis whose only sin was to drive as they usually did in the capital's main street were killed by him and dozens of others were wounded. One of the victims, Bat Sheva Unterman z"l, even managed to extract her baby girl from the vehicle crushed by the bulldozer on [Dwayat's] deadly journey."

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