On January 21, the Israeli media reported that the country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz paid a visit to the military command post in Samaria overseeing an IDF operation called “Iron Wall” in progress inside the Jenin “refugee camp” (and never mind there is no camp and the people there are not refugees).
To the media, Minister Katz said there is a change in the IDF’s security doctrine in Judea and Samaria. The next day, his office issued a statement calling the present effort a “high-intensity operation to eliminate terrorists and the camp’s terror infrastructure without the resurgence of terror into the camp after the operation ends…We will not allow the arms of the Iranian octopus and radical Islam to endanger the lives of the Israeli residents and establish an eastern terrorist front against the State of Israel. We will strike hard at the arms of the octopus until they are severed.”
The Iranians, indeed, are smuggling in all kinds of weapons, and there is certainly no shortage in Judea and Samaria of Muslim soul brothers, ideologically allied with the hundreds of Muslims in Gaza who, just last week, terrorized one last time the three young Israeli women hostages on their way to freedom. The Muslim males in what anti-Jews call the “West Bank” would also like to do what their brethren in Gaza did: That is, murder hundreds of Jews, kidnapping and raping Jewish females and using them as slaves. Israel must address this.
is a myth.
Likewise, while the Israelis practice the same religion as their forefathers in this land, the so-called Palestinians’ religion is not native to the erstwhile Land of Canaan, which the Jews transformed into the Land of Israel and Imperial Rome then rebranded as “Palaestina.” They pray to Mecca, which is in the Arabian Peninsula, which is not in Palestine at all. A more accurate and honest label for these “Palestinians” would be “Arabians.”
It is a Sisyphean effort for the IDF to weed out the “bad guys” among the Muslims in Judea and Samaria, in the fallacious belief that all the others are potential “good guys.”
In 1967, Israel emerged victorious against Arab aggressors but never claimed the right to keep the spoils of war. Instead, at Oslo in 1993, Israel tried to “sell back” some of the land in the fantasy that the enemy would be happy with a state even smaller than Israel and become friendly neighbors.
In 1848, the United States concluded its two-year war with Mexico by keeping a third of that country; after WWII, Germany’s neighbors took possession of thousands of square miles of territory that in 1939 had been German land.
In 2025, Israel launches “Operation Iron Wall” into Jenin, its umpteenth raid there in 57 years.
What Israel never does is—without shame or guilt—take land away from the enemy in response to his bloody atrocities. Indeed, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his last statement on Israel, said Israel must not retain any territory belonging to the Gaza Strip before October 7. That statement proves that holding the territory is a good idea because Antony Blinken is against it, it must be a good one.
Islam is a form of antisemitism. and there is nothing Israel can do to change that truth except to defend itself with no hope of peace, at least until the advent of the Messiah, as Jews experience the concept.
Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hardcover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.
Image: Map showing Jewish territory under the Palestine Mandate of 1922 by Bolter 21. CC BY-SA 4.0.
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