Hugh Fitzgerald
The Bidenites want Israel to curtail its raids in the West Bank to arrest terrorists. The Israelis have firmly replied that they will continue their operations to capture terrorists in their hideouts and to seize those who are in the planning stage for such attacks, or otherwise aiding and abetting terrorist murderers. After a shooting attack on September 4 in the Jordan Valley left six IDF soldiers wounded, one of them seriously, Defense Minister Benny Gantz vowed to “continue to increase” Israeli activities in the West Bank, while Prime Minister Yair Lapid said security forces will “continue to reach anyone” who threatens the lives of Israeli citizens. If that new policy of preemptive strikes “worries” the Bidenites, who apparently want Israel to stop its raids on terrorists in the West Bank, that’s just too bad. It is Israeli, not American lives, that are at stake.
A report on the Bidenites’ misplaced alarm about those Israeli raids that are meant to keep the terrorists at bay can be found here: “US said to be ‘very troubled’ by surge of violence, rising tensions in West Bank,” Times of Israel, September 3, 2022. This is the subheading of the Times of Israel article:
Israeli officials reportedly tell senior Biden administration official that IDF arrest operation to continue as terrorists try to launch attacks; US concerned by Palestinian deaths.
How maddening it must be for the Israelis to be lectured to, or hectored by, such Bidenites as Barbara Leaf and Hady Amr, on what the Jewish state “must not do” to protect their population, because it causes “tension.” It is Israelis, not Americans, who are being stabbed and shot at, during the sudden rise in terrorist attacks that began last March, and Israel is now determined to apprehend as many Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists as it can before they strike. Many of these IDF operations take place in cities, and of course the sight of terrorists being seized in their West Bank lairs has unsettled and infuriated the Palestinian public, but so what? What else can Israel do? Should it return to its previous modus operandi, by going after only those known to have taken part in attacks, or continue with its expanded series of preemptive raids that include as targets those Palestinians who have not yet committed acts of terror but are still in the planning stage? Clearly, the new policy is working, with 1,200 Palestinians having so far been seized in West Bank raids.
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