Opinion | Do not let provocateurs raise their heads Israel today

Israel's moves these days and the reaction of all its governments in the past to the seasonal outbreak of murderous Palestinian violence, reflect the recognition of the security forces' urgency to act to thwart terrorism at the heart of the population of the society addicted to it.

It turns out that even if the leaders and the majority of the Palestinian public are not interested in an outbreak of terrorism and are aware of its personal and national damage, the violent dynamics coming from the radical nucleus to mass rampage are sweeping.

Although Abu Mazen opposes this, sometimes uttering a point-by-point condemnation and his forces working in coordination with the IDF, he can not detach himself from the violent and belligerent culture rooted in his society. Because they are legitimized in Palestinian society as murderers of Jews, even when he loses millions of dollars from Europe due to payment to terrorists and antisemitic textbooks, he sanctifies this barbaric practice at the top of the national list of priorities. The Jew, will lose his legitimacy as representing the longings of his people.

In Gaza, there is not even a pretense that concern for the future of the children outweighs the addiction to the elimination of Israel.

But recently it turns out that Palestinian citizens of Israel and their promiscuous leadership have also interpreted as an invitation to violence the weakness of the police and the reluctance of Israeli governments to confront their rampage in the Negev and Galilee, and their identification with the enemy.

Mansour Abbas, who is trying to take responsibility and have a dialogue with the Jewish public, is having a hard time withstanding the pressure of his constituents and his people against the provocateurs who are trying to thwart him.

Beyond the operative need to deploy Israel's security forces on a large scale and in broad retirement in the heart of the concentrations of the Palestinian population, this pattern of action is derived from a recognition in principle.

It reflects a grim conclusion reached by almost every Israeli mainstream, not necessarily consciously and sometimes despite vigorous denial - that the nature of Palestinian society and the way it chose to educate its sons and behave disregard, at least in the next generation, the coexistence of two sovereign states.

Since this society is addicted to violence and fundamentally rejects a historical compromise, it is expected that the Palestinians will use their sovereignty to persevere in their war with Israel and be aided by enemies closer (e.g., Syria) or farther (especially Iran) in that struggle.

Nor are they expected to maintain a responsible government over themselves, which prevents the radical elements within and around it from bringing destruction to their people in terrorism and war, as they have done in the hundred years since they were formed as a people.

This conclusion is accepted not only by the followers of the integrity of the land and the soft right who are not committed to this vision in full, but also by the vast majority of those who seek compromise and division of the land, except the purists at the edges of the camp.

When most compromise seekers are required to elaborate on their proposals beyond the noble principles, it turns out that those in charge are in fact talking about a "state" with very limited sovereignty, not only in the scope of its armed forces but also in the nature and variety of its alliances.

It is no coincidence that Deputy Minister Yair Golan is demanding Israeli permanent control of a limited outline of the Jordan Valley.

When Israel considers its moves against the Palestinians in the current wave of terror, in attempts to "continuously" regulate the area by economic means, in interim arrangements or in a permanent arrangement, the lesson of recent generations, which also appears in these Passover and Ramadan, must be upheld. , Detached from the cost / benefit considerations of responsible nations.

The provocateurs sooner or later drag the majority and its leadership to violence, even when the personal and national damage is heavy.

Many among the Arab citizens of Israel have recently been "flirting" with this dangerous pattern of action.

If they are rampant, it is important to respond with deterrent severity - as in October 2000, not as in May 2021. Until next time.

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