Israel allows Sinwar to incite without response, the price is paid by the victims of the attacks

Desperate for failed attempts to carry out terrorist attacks, the Hamas leadership turned to the last weapon - fueling incitement to individual terrorism.

So far it has forced on Israel an equation according to which words are not paid for, and now the defense establishment will need a solution.

Meanwhile, Sinwar is riding the waves of sympathy following the discourse on the possibility of eliminating him

Amir Bohbot

08/05/2022

Sunday, 08 May 2022, 07:00

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In the video: Sinwar calls for weapons or axes to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel (Photo: Arab networks)

The murderous attack in the city of Elad that took place on Thursday is the latest in the current wave of terrorism, which is accompanied by a sharp incitement to murder from the Hamas leadership in Gaza and headed by Yahya Sinwar - whose killings are now being heard in Israel.

But the big question facing the political echelon is whether the Hamas leader will pay a price for the wild and direct incitement against Israel, including calls to carry out attacks with firearms or a butcher knife.

So far, the Hamas leadership has managed to force Israel into an equation that does not pay a price for incitement: the IDF does not really attack terrorist targets in response to incitement. This is a point that even the defense establishment fears A large-scale operation will be short-lived, and if the wave of terrorism does not subside, the defense establishment will need immediate solutions and will have to start dealing with incitement.

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The organization turned to the last refuge.

Sinwar (Photo: screenshot, documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law)

Regarding a possible elimination of Sinuar?

Israel must choose the timing at which it will eliminate personalities so as not to be dragged into operations or war at the timing chosen by the enemy.

At the moment, both sides, Israel and the Hamas leadership, are not interested in escalation, but it will be interesting to see what happens if Hamas also pays prices for the ongoing incitement to murder.

Meanwhile, calls in Israel for the assassination of Sinwar are playing into his hands and glorifying him.

Just as he wanted, when in practice he was at a low point for years and under pressure in economic, political, and political aspects.

Sinwar was elected to his current position with great difficulty under manipulation and personal pressure on senior Hamas leaders and has since been criticized at home for his meager achievements in Operation Wall Guard.

This is because all attempts to carry out attacks from the sea, in cyber, through tunnels or from the air - were thwarted by Israel.

In recent months, he has been criticized by senior Islamic Jihad figures for choosing the path of an informal series with Israel in order to allow thousands of Gazan workers to enter Israel, and has abandoned terrorism.

Bottom line - Hamas as an organization that invests large resources and a lot of effort through headquarters in Gaza and abroad has not really been able to carry out attacks in Judea and Samaria and in the home front of the State of Israel in the past year.

Had the huge investment been analyzed against the actual results, he would have received a failed score.

Most of its infrastructure was disrupted or thwarted by the IDF, the GSS and the police.

Sinwar's most notable achievement in Operation Wall Guard was the conscious connection between Gaza, Judea and Samaria, Israeli Arabs and Jerusalem. Israeli Arabs who demonstrated violence in the cities involved did not really go to the main arteries Israel has so far ignored Hamas' achievement and not really "punished" Sinwar.

The victims pay.

The scene of the attack in Elad (Photo: Maariv, Avshalom Shoshani)

Therefore, to understand Sinwar's logic one has to examine his signs of distress.

Among them, the use of restraining forces along the Gaza Strip border to prevent demonstrations (the peak was on Earth Day when it approved a rally at the beach and not at the border fence), the prevention of rocket launches and preventive arrests of Islamic Jihad operatives and Salafis, the silence of Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziad Nahala He was criticized, and most severely - according to sources in the intelligence community - dozens were killed in Judea and Samaria from IDF fire, including accidental IDF gunfire at Palestinians along the Gaza border who did not receive a direct response from Hamas.

So while Salah al-Aruri, a senior Hamas official who roams abroad, obtains funds from Iran and Qatar and challenges Sinwar's status and future, all that remains in the current reality for the Hamas leadership in Gaza is to intensify wild incitement on social media and openly call for terrorism and violence, Of Sinwar this week.

In the field of incitement on social networks and in general, Israel is showing laxity, real laxity.

There is monitoring, and identification of incitement leading to the arrest of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and Israeli Arabs in exceptional cases but security officials admit that much more can be done within the law to deter individuals and reduce extreme incitement that is the source of the current wave of terrorism.

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