All sides understand that calm is urgently needed. The problem is that the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah has no control over its own people.
War on Terror
The only individual ever executed by Israel was Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the Holocaust.
Washington repeatedly says it supports Israel’s right to self defense, and then goes on to complain about Israeli counter-terror operations.
Is this new “cycle of violence” indicative of the harsher anti-terror action we can expect from Israel’s new government?
“We are delighted that the first of the major American charities fundraising for terrorist organizations is now unable to collect donations.”
“From now on every terrorist will know that he will pay a heavy price for harming the citizens of Israel.”
The measures reportedly include seizing assets belonging to terrorists’ families and erecting additional security checkpoints between predominantly Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in the capital.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explains why Israel will withhold the bulk of Palestinian Authority tax revenues.
Israel’s new national religious government has proposed some harsh responses to the Jerusalem synagogue attack. But what counts are the results.
Palestinian terror attacks in Jerusalem at the weekend were labeled “lone wolf” attacks. That’s a mistake, but it’s an easy one to make.