Nadene Goldfoot
Judea-Samaria is the original site of the Jewish people. It is called the West Bank today. The Oslo Accords have divided the land up for Jews and Palestinians to continue to live there. Area A is exclusively administered by the Palestinian National Authority; Area B is administered by both the Palestinian Authority and Israel; and Area C, which contains the Israeli settlements, is administered by Israel.
From the (Sept. 1993) until September 2000 - nearly 300 Israelis were killed in attacks.
During the Palestinian (Sept. 2000 - Dec. 2005), another 1,100 Israelis were killed.
Since September 2000, Palestinian terrorist attacks have claimed at least 1,396 Israeli lives. Hundreds more have been wounded.
Since the Oslo Accords were signed, at least 1,656 Israelis have been murdered.
This list includes 21 Israelis killed abroad in terror attacks directed specifically against Israeli targets, and three American diplomatic personnel killed in Gaza. It does not include nine IDF soldiers killed during or the IDF soldiers killed in .
12 Jews have been killed in Judea/Samaria, so called West Bank since January 2023. Six were killed in January, six in February.
Updated in 2007 about Operation Defensive Shield: Jenin is still the home of terrorism.....
Like any democracy, not only has a right to defend its citizens - it has a moral obligation to protect its women, children and other civilians from homicide bombers who would kill a teenager who goes to the supermarket or a child who goes for a walk.
Like America, Israel defends its citizens from . In Israel, have terrorized the civilian population for the last 18 months. Indeed, we wish that had not refused the offer of a Palestinian state and encouraged terrorism. After all, Israel wants peace and wants there to be a Palestinian state - once the Palestinians recognize Israel's right to exist with their actions, and not just their words.
However, when faced with terrorism, Israeli forces went into to root out one of the principal terrorist bases.
Sadly, Arafat's own documents call Jenin the “suiciders capital.” The camp has a long history as a base for extremists and no less than 28 suicide attacks were launched from this terror nest during the recent wave of violence. What would America do if it knew where to find terrorists responsible for blowing up pizzerias, discos, grocery stores, and religious celebrations?
Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered cease-fire in the hope the Palestinians would do the same and return to the bargaining table, but Yasser Arafat rejected the American plan and the terrorists from Jenin escalated their violent attacks.
Israel has acknowledged that some Palestinians were killed, but the majority were gunmen. Any civilian casualty is a tragedy, but American forces have also discovered that it is virtually impossible to completely avoid them when terrorists used civilians as shields as the Palestinians did in Jenin.
"I see no evidence that would support a massacre took place," said Secretary of State Colin Powell. Indeed, there was no massacre in Jenin -- a fact confirmed by Human Rights Watch.
How is peace possible when Palestinian terrorists use refugees as shields, and refugees are forced to allow terrorists to establish bases in their homes, their churches, their schools, and their communities?
While trying to avoid endangering civilians, 23 Israeli soldiers were killed in bitter combat in Jenin, where Palestinian terrorists used bombs, grenades, booby-traps and machine guns to turn the camp into a war zone. Much of the destruction was caused by Palestinian bombs.
Israel prefers to take diplomatic action at the negotiating table, but when forced to defend the freedom of its citizens, the military will attack military targets and terrorists. By contrast, Palestinian terrorists target restaurants, places of worship, schools and busy streets - with many attacks taking place on the Sabbath. Israel's goal is to eliminate terrorism. The goal of the Palestinian terrorists is to inflict as much pain on as many civilians as possible.
There is no moral equivalence between terrorists and the people fighting them. To suggest otherwise would be similar to comparing the arsonist who sets a fire with the firefighter who puts the fire out.
Jenin was not destroyed. The Israeli operation was conducted in a limited area of the refugee camp, which itself comprises a small fraction of the city. TV pictures create a distorted image of the extent of the damage.
The hypocrisy of the and others concerned about Jenin is evident from the fact that they never condemn or investigate the repeated massacres by Palestinian homicide bombers.
Israel has nothing to hide and invited an impartial fact-finding team to visit Jenin. The historical animosity of UN bodies toward Israel raises questions about the fairness of its representatives as does the exclusion of military and counterterrorism experts. In fact, one delegate appointed to the UN team previously compared a with a .
Syrian -Palestinian planning
Palestinians have learned from fabricating atrocities stories in the past that a false claim against Israel will get immediate media attention and attract sympathy for their cause. And the corrections that inevitably follow are rarely seen, read, or noticed.
“The acting interior minister and the attorney-general will submit draft legislation on revoking residency and citizenship of terrorists and removing them to the territory of the Palestinian Authority,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated after the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.
“The acting interior minister and the attorney-general will submit draft legislation on revoking residency and citizenship of terrorists and removing them to the territory of the Palestinian Authority.”
Prime Minister's Office
Last month, we witnessed a peak in the already volatile reality between Israelis and Palestinians. On January 26, Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, reportedly in order to thwart an imminent terror attack against Israelis by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist group. Nine Palestinians, including PIJ members and at least one civilian, were killed and others wounded. They are listed in reference material back in 2010, who started in1979. They recruit followers in mosques and universities, responsible for1,000 terrorist attacks from 2000-2004. wounded 950 Israelis; killed 150 Israelis; performed 39 suicide bombings from 2000-2005; Jenin battle of 2002; 59 suicide bombers foiled and arrested in 2005.
The following day, a Palestinian terrorist murdered seven Israeli civilians near a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Ya’akov, in the deadliest terror attack Israel has experienced in recent years. Less than 12 hours later, a second attack took place when a 13-year-old Palestinian shot and injured two Israelis outside the Old City of Jerusalem.
Defending themselves against these terror attacks is being used by the terrorists as defamation of Jews and Israel.
Resource:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_Accord
2023
Israel 101 by StandWithUs (2010)
| February 27 | Elan Ganeles (27) | Elan Ganeles, 27, was shot dead by a Palestinian terrorist on a highway between Jericho and the Dead Sea. |
|---|---|---|
| February 26 | Hallel Yaniv (21) Yagel Yaniv (19) | Hallel Yaniv and Yagel Yaniv, two brothers from Har Bracha, were murdered when a Palestinian gunman opened fire from close range at their car while it was caught in a traffic jam on the Route 60 highway near Huwara. |
| February 10 | Shlomo Liderman (20), Yaakov Yisrael Paley (6), Asher Menahem Paley (8) | A Palestinian rammed his car into civilians at a Jerusalem bus stop, immediately killing a 6-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man. The boy’s 8-year-old brother died later from his injuries. |
| January 27 | Eli (48) and Natalie Mizrahi (45), Rafael Ben-Eliyahu (56), Asher Natan (14), Shaul Chai (68), Irina Korolova (59), Ilya Sosonsky (26), | At the conclusion of Friday night prayers, a P alestinian terrorist opened fire on a crowd in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, killing seven and wounding three. |
Israeli forces mounted a major raid into Jenin yesterday to capture several wanted terrorists including the one who murdered the Yaniv brothers in Huwara last week. Shootouts broke out between the troops and terrorists. Six terrorists were killed, including the Huwara terrorist. Two Israeli commandos were lightly wounded. About a dozen other terrorists were wounded. Troops fired missiles from a helicopter as well as hand held missiles.
ReplyDeletePrime Minister Netanyahu said in a statement, “IDF, Shin Bet and Yamam fighters today eliminated the despicable terrorist who murdered in cold blood the two lovely brothers Hallel and Yagel Yaniv." Our brave warriors operated surgically in the heart of the murderers' den. I praise them and send recovery wishes to the wounded from among our forces. As I say again and again, time and time again: whoever hurts us – their blood will be on their head.”