{"id":29706,"date":"2015-11-01T18:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:35:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:35:50","slug":"30-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=29706","title":{"rendered":"10 Things to Know About the Latest Wave of Palestinian Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>10 Things to Know About the Latest Wave of Palestinian Terror<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Yishai Fleisher<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The aftermath of a terrorist attack that took <\/em><\/span>
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The current state of affairs in Israel is full of lessons and truths. The sooner we learn them, the \u200esooner we can stop the attacks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e1. We can stop feeling guilty\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A few good things have come out of the recent wave of terror in the streets of \u200eIsrael. The first is that the facade that jihadis are somehow struggling for self-determination, \u200esocial justice, or any other noble idea has been unmasked. It is clear to us now that, unlike what \u200ewe\u2019ve been urged to believe for the last 30 years, jihadis don\u2019t want peace. They want to \u200eannihilate Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel. This is great news. Because once the \u200epretense is dropped, we stop falling for it and begin unloading the guilty feeling that we are at \u200efault for everything. We drop the idea, for example, that building in Jerusalem or Judea is causing this war. Those few \u200evoices who still try to blame the victims sound delusional and their ideas are being debunked. At \u200ethe same time, there is a realization that within Israel is a hostile minority that simply \u200edoes not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state. Clarity is forming, and it will lead to victory.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e2. The Jewish fighting spirit is back\u200e.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The second good thing is that the Jewish fighting spirit is back on the streets. Men and women, \u200eold and young, are responding to terror with defiance. Pepper spray, rolling pins, umbrellas, \u200eselfie sticks, kicks, fists, running, and especially shooting \u2014 Israelis are shooting bad guys (and \u200egals). Yes, there have been some horrific videos of Jews being gouged as though we\u2019re back in \u200ea medieval Polish countryside. But even in those videos, soon enough, a gun-toting Jew \u200evanquishes the jihadi zombie. We don\u2019t cower and shriek as they wish we would, and it \u200edemoralizes them. Our people\u2019s healthy fighting instincts have (amazingly) not been \u200ecorrupted by the media, or by the ideology of weakness. Remember: Fighting back is good, so \u200estay tactical out there, folks!\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e3. When we\u2019re terrified, they win\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of videos and fear: Today\u2019s video-centric world often works in the jihadis\u2019 favor. \u200eTerrorists want to make us feel terrified. They try to achieve that by doing a terrible act and \u200epublicizing it, using video to drive terror into our hearts. If a viewer is terrified after watching the news or YouTube, then the terrorists have succeeded. Don\u2019t let them. \u200eDon\u2019t let them scare you. Don\u2019t let them bully you. Don\u2019t let them unnerve you. When you walk \u200eout of your house with a big fork in your bag, you are saying that you\u2019d rather fight than be \u200escared. When you don\u2019t cancel that trip to Israel, you are saying that you will not be cowed. \u200eRemember, we Jews have always kicked bullies to the curb. From Abraham to King David to \u200ethe Maccabees. We\u2019ve fought the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and British, with tenacity and \u200emuch success. The jihad bully is next.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e4. Don\u2019t mess with us. You\u2019ll lose\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The media, the U.S. administration and the U.N. are full of claims that \u200eIsrael is using too much force, indiscriminately slaughtering innocent people in \u200eresponse to the jihad. This is classic anti-Semitic propaganda, blaming the Jews for some \u200eheinous crime that in reality is the work of the anti-Semite. (This tactic \u200ewas also used in the blood libel and \u201cThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion.\u201d) On the one hand, it is important to \u200ecorrect those pervasive lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when Israelis intentionally and justly neutralize \u200eterrorists, it is important not to backpedal or mumble the pathetic formula that our army is moral \u200eor that we try to save the lives of the terrorists we just shot. Rather, it is much better to say, \u201cYou \u200esee? This is what happens when you mess with us.\u201d In other words, we are one crazy little \u200epost-Holocaust country and we have zero tolerance for Nazi-like jihads, and if you start up with us, \u200eyou will face our ire and our fire. Contrary to how the world makes it seem, it\u2019s OK for us to want \u200eto survive, and it\u2019s OK to say it.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e5. Thanks, \u201cworld,\u201d but we can take care of ourselves\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding \u201cthe world\u201d: It will never come to our aid. We already knew that, learned it the hard \u200eway in the 1940s \u2014 that\u2019s how the expression \u201cnever again\u201d came to be. Part of the reason we established \u200ethe State of Israel is because \u201cthe world\u201d can\u2019t be relied on to defend us. So why do we whine \u200eabout \u201cthe world\u201d? Please let us stop hoping that the U.N. and the EU will condemn someone \u200eother then Israel, and let us stop waiting for them. If we want to take care of business, then we \u200ehave to do it ourselves. Self-determination takes determination and no one will clean up our \u200emess or come to our rescue. Time to grow up, take charge, even lead.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e6. Jihad is a force of chaos.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On one level, what we are dealing with here is radical Islam\u2019s fight against Israel, a Jewish, \u200enon-Muslim entity in the Middle East. On a deeper level, this fight is between two universal forces: the creative and the destructive. Israel is about life, innovation, clean water, farming, \u200e education, medicine, health and prosperity. Israel is about enshrining the past and building \u200ethe future.<\/span><\/p>\n

But jihadism is like a veil of darkness, repressive and regressive. It sees no value in \u200eindividuals, and only seeks to suppress people into conformity. Everywhere the jihad goes, it \u200ebrings entropy and chaos, the opposite of creativity and life. And jihad is not content with \u200ethe regions of destruction under its control. Rather, it is bitterly jealous of that small green country \u200ein its midst. Jihad hates the Jewish state precisely because it is an oasis of life in the heart of its Middle Eastern desert. This distinction makes it all the more clear what value there is to jihad \u200ecivilization \u2014 none \u2014 and they hate us for it.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e7. Our kindness goes too far.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

However, while jihad is the enemy, out-of-control liberalism is its real enabler. Jihad exploits \u200eWestern liberalism as a weakness and a portal to spread its venom. To defeat jihad, we have to \u200eroot it out, deny it any ground in which to sprout, and be anything but liberal with it. We must not \u200eallow the extremists to teach jihadism in the schools, to rally on the Temple Mount, to blare out \u200emurderous messaged from their minarets, and certainly not allow them to use the Knesset, for heaven\u2019s sake, to spew their venom. We arrest them, hound them, chase them. They must \u200eknow that if they have seditious thoughts, we can hear them, and we will find them. (For a model of how to fight the jihad, just look at our decidedly-not-liberal-with-\u200ejihad Egyptian neighbor, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.) It certainly won\u2019t be easy to put the jihadi genie back in \u200ethe bottle, but it must be done. It is a matter of our survival.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e8. Don\u2019t mess with Allah\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jihad is religious. It understands the language of God better than Western talk of \u200ecompromise, negotiations, and peace processes. This is what I tell would-be jihadis in the \u200estreets of Jerusalem: \u201cIn 1948, we were 600,000 Jews in this land. Now we are 6 \u200emillion. You have fought many wars against us, but you have never won. Have you ever \u200ewondered why? Are we more numerous than you? Are we richer than you? No. It is because \u200eAllah wills it and He has blessed us to build up this country. Even the Quran talks about the \u200eJewish people coming home \u2014 yet you refuse to submit to Allah\u2019s will. In the meantime, your \u200ecountries have fallen apart. Where is Syria? Where is Iraq? Where is the strong Egypt of the \u200epast? Gone. Do you know why? Because jihad is destroying you, not us. If you keep \u200efighting with us, it will be your own Islamic State that will destroy you, all because you did not accept \u200eand submit to Allah\u2019s will.\u201d I have used this argument many times and seen the initial shock and \u200esubsequent expressions of acceptance on their faces. In short, blame it on Allah.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e9. We will never leave\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And speaking of a language that jihadis understand, we must send them one \u200eunambiguous message: We are never, ever leaving. Arabs on the street ask me, \u201cWhen will \u200ethere be peace?\u201d and I tell them, \u201cThere will be peace when you understand that we will never \u200eleave this land and never give up Jerusalem. We are more majnun [crazy] then you are about \u200ethis place. So you might as well accept the reality. If you don\u2019t, the war will continue, but we will \u200ewin in the end, because we are never, ever, leaving.\u201d Jihad gets courage from a sense of \u200eeventual victory. Take that away and replace it with a sense that the war against Israel is totally \u200efutile, a clear message that they will never win, and watch the jihadist motivation dwindle.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200e10. Jerusalem is at the heart of it\u200e.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, to defeat the jihad against Israel, we must realize that the epicenter of the struggle is \u200eJerusalem. Jihadis want to keep us out of Jerusalem, out of the Old City, and certainly off the \u200eTemple Mount, because they sense correctly that the bedrock of their power (and ours) is \u200eJerusalem. Holding on to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount gives them religious authority and \u200eclout, and keeps us from achieving our true potential as sovereigns of this land. Indeed, almost \u200eall of their anti-Israel propaganda has an image, emblem, or icon of the Dome of the Rock. They are \u200efighting to take the heart of our story, Jerusalem, and replace it with their Al-Quds. In the face \u200eof this assault, we must not retreat or relinquish any sovereignty in this city. We must not \u200ecapitulate to the terror by dividing the city, or by keeping Jews away from the Temple Mount. \u200eEvery person can be part of this fight: Visit Jerusalem, buy in Jerusalem, walk the streets of \u200eJerusalem, pray in and for Jerusalem, and declare our rights to a sovereign and Israeli \u200eJerusalem. In short, to beat the jihadis\u2019 vision of Al-Quds, we must say the following phrase, \u200eand mean it: \u201cNext year, and every year, in a rebuilt and united Jerusalem.\u201d\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

The jihad against us is only partly about physical violence. It is mostly about mental intimidation \u200eand exploitation of our weaknesses. Yet this challenge is also an opportunity: If we rise to the \u200eoccasion, overcome fear, and beat back the jihadi scourge, then Israel will take its rightful place \u200eas a world leader in the defense of freedom, along with being a nation of innovation and the \u200eworld\u2019s spiritual superpower. \u200e<\/span><\/p>\n

Yishai Fleisher is an Israeli journalist, educator, NGO founder, and jurist. Follow him @yishaifleisher.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This article was originally published by Israel Hayom.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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