In the current wave of attacks, the security establishment continues to propose taking the same familiar actions - deporting terrorists to their families, denying citizenship and demolishing houses overnight.
But these actions will be of no use, as long as the erroneous conceptions on which the security system is based, and which thwart, whether on purpose or not, the eradication of terrorism are abandoned.
If we want to defeat terrorism, which cost the lives of 31 citizens last year, and already in the first month of this year, the lives of nine - it will be necessary to change the concepts immediately, preferably one hour before.
First, we must understand that there is no such thing as a "lone terrorist".
The assumption that a single terrorist is behind most of the attacks, and that this is the reason for the inability of the security forces to thwart them, is wrong.
The claim that you cannot arrest a person who gets up in the morning, takes a knife and goes out to stab civilians - is wrong.
Behind every terrorist is a terrorist organization.
It is mostly Hamas and Islamic Jihad that recruit the terrorists, incite them to terror, instruct and adopt them after the attack.
The terrorist organizations use the illusion of a "lone terrorist" to harm Israel without accepting direct responsibility.
"Going with and feeling without".
Hamas and Islamic Jihad found in social media a tool to launch their supporters into acts of terrorism and murder against Israeli targets, and after the fact - used to accept only implicit responsibility, understandable only to the Palestinian target audience.
Today there is a sophisticated and organized terrorist infrastructure operating in the territories of the PA and YOSH, which knows the area well and receives assistance, weapons and training. The means to carry out terrorist attacks, sometimes even with the support of Iran and Syria.
Also, the terrorist organizations outside of Hamas and Islamic Jihad are still alive, breathing and kicking.
The claim, for example, that the "Al-Aqsa Martyrs" organization is no longer active, is thrown into the ground of reality, because its terrorists are integrated into the PA's security mechanisms following the "Wanted Persons Agreements". Al-Aqsa and integrate them into its security mechanisms.
This is how the illusion was created that the organization ceased to exist, but this is a complete mistake.
The terrorists from Jenin who carried out the attack in Dizengoff, for example, are the sons of a Palestinian police officer who is admired and admired by senior Palestinian Authority officials. The fiction that the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have ceased to exist causes the security forces to be wasted and castrated in operations against the organization, and against Abu Mazen, who is responsible for it.
The same goes for the claim that ISIS has completely lost its power and ceased to be a significant player.
ISIS may no longer exist as an organization, but as an idea - it has never been stronger.
Joining ISIS was always conceptual and virtual, with almost no physical participation.
Most of the members of the organization did not participate in trainings and briefings, they did not come to Syria and Iraq to meet with al-Baghdadi, but absorbed his ideas on the Internet and set out to carry out attacks.
ISIS's presence on social media is only getting stronger.
Hundreds of thousands of young people absorb his ideas, and the security establishment does not watch this with closed eyes.
The idea that ISIS no longer exists has led the security forces to completely ignore the actions of its loyalists.
Also, we must say goodbye once and for all to the illusion that giving bribes to terrorism - payments to terrorists and their families, benefits and improved prison conditions for terrorists - will buy industrial peace.
The previous government was characterized by a policy of favoring terrorists.
Thus they gave Abu Mazen loans of hundreds of millions of dollars, allowed him to receive huge amounts of support from the US, allowed half a billion dollars to be transferred to Hamas through the United Nations, signed a gas agreement with Hezbollah and let the security prisoners run the prisons.
The hope is that all this will stop under the leadership of the new government.
Otherwise - we will not defeat terrorism.
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