(JNS) There were three years, from 2000 to 2003, when almost every day in Israel a bus blew up or a massacre was carried out in a pizzeria or a restaurant. That was the Second Intifada.
More than 1,000 Israelis were murdered, until the Park Hotel massacre in Netanya—30 people slaughtered as they sat at their Passover seder—pushed Israel to send its troops into the cities that had become factories of terror. It worked. The intifada was crushed.
Later, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon—who had ordered the military operation—implemented the Gaza disengagement. More attempts at peace followed. Yet history has been punctuated by repeated outbursts of jihadist violence, leading up to Oct. 7, 2023, and now, to the horrifying realization that Israel is again under siege.
Monday’s bus massacre in Jerusalem made this crystal clear. The victims were innocent passengers heading to work. Earlier on Monday, four soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack on the outskirts of Gaza City.
The day before, a police detective was killed by gunfire in the...
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While the west sleeps, jihad prepares its next October 7th, it will be against the west as it sleeps.