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Opinion | Stop "Wills of the Terrorists" | Israel today

2021-12-08T21:11:55.753Z


It should be made clear to the Arab residents that if they do not accept the compromise proposals of the state and the court, they will find themselves outside the homes • The Jewish residents, who have been attacked for months, the state must protect • The full article tomorrow


About a month ago, a picture of Moriah Cohen, her husband Dvir and their five children appeared on the front page of "Israel Hashavua".

Inside the supplement, an article was published that I had prepared about the Jewish settlers in the "Shimon Hatzadik-Sheikh Jarrah" neighborhood.

Cohen said at the time that her most difficult moment in her six years of living there was on the last day of Jerusalem, when she returned home with her children from the festivities, and suddenly an alarm sounded.

"I see thousands of Arabs in front of our houses whistling and dancing happily, while we are prevented from reaching our house, to a place that is supposed to be my security and shield. It is a terrible feeling," Moriah described.

Yesterday, when she accompanied her children again, this time on the way to kindergarten, she was stabbed in the back and miraculously saved.

Cohen and her friends in Shimon the Tzaddik are heroes who fulfill Zionism in the heart of Zion, near Mount Scopus.

They do this despite the difficulties they experience at home and abroad.

They cling to the place even though the governments of Israel for generations have given them legs, and even though the Israeli police do not always provide them with the protection they deserve in the face of Palestinian terrorism and violence.

One day, I am convinced, their rivals and their platoon members will also know how to thank this group that preserves the heart of Jerusalem for all of us, but yesterday the Palestinians hurried to tell that Dukrat, a 14-year-old Palestinian girl, was apparently motivated by her actions: her grandfather, Araf Hamad, a key anti-operative The Jewish settlement in Shimon Hatzadik, lives in one of the Jewish homes that the court ordered its occupants to vacate.

Seizure of the suspect, Photo: Reuters

But the girl from Sheikh Jarrah is similar to other young people who are currently facing the severe incitement of Hamas in chains, mosques, the Temple Mount and East Jerusalem Street;

In addition to other terrorists who have carried out eight terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in the past three months.

In the "Israel of the Week" supplement, it will be possible to get to know many of them, in an article about written wills and recent posts that dozens of them left behind.

About 50% of the perpetrators in recent years, it turns out, write a kind of will before they go out to commit their murders, taking into account that they will not return to life.

The most popular motives of the terrorists are the "defense of al-Aqsa", the desire to become "martyrs", various personal hardships that are channeled in the direction of "shahadah" (yesterday's incident may be classified under this category), and "contagion" and "copying" attacks. Countless.

This latest genre is now feared in the defense establishment most of all.

A terrorist attack - eight of these, as mentioned, have already taken place in Jerusalem in the last ten weeks - and the fear is that each attack "infects" and produces more fans, some of whom will stand up and imitate his act.

Muhammad Shvukat Salima, for example, who was shot dead on Saturday near the Nablus Gate after trying to murder the ultra-Orthodox young man Avraham Elmaleh with a knife, described himself as a "martyr on the waiting list."

The defense establishment fears that he is not alone, and that in the coming weeks more places will be vacated on this "waiting list."

The key to relative control over the height of the flames in Jerusalem is the Temple Mount.

If relative calm is maintained there, there is a chance that terrorism will subside, but Hamas is doing everything in its power to re-ignite the mountain.

The means for this is incessant harassment of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, the holiest place for the Jewish people, and attempts to harm them and the police who protect them.

Two issues - the Temple Mount and Sheikh Jarrah - stood in the background of the events that led to the Wall Guard operation about six months ago, and the riots perpetrated by Arabs on their Jewish neighbors and their property in the mixed cities.

The immediate goal is to prevent a re-flare on the Temple Mount and in the cities involved.

In Shimon the Tzaddik-Sheikh Jarrah, it should be made clear to the Arab residents that if they do not accept the compromise proposals of the state and the court, they will find themselves outside the homes.

The Jewish residents there, who have been under attack for months and are not always protected by the police, need to be protected, and the Jewish settlement in the area needs to be thickened.

The one who has to do this is the state.

After all, this is an area where Israel has inhabited tens of thousands of Jews over the years, but actually skipped the plot of land purchased 150 years ago by Jews, near the tomb of Tanna Shimon the Righteous, the well-known high priest from the Second Temple period, last of the "Knesset."

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Source: israelhayom

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