Since the Gaza ceasefire agreement on January 19, the IDF has detained 380 Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. Two days after the agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “announced the start of a large-scale operation to defeat terrorism” in the city of Jenin. Days later, the operation was expanded into Tulkarm and Tubas. While the left-leaning mainstream media makes Israel look like the aggressor, Israel is protecting its citizens from the actual aggressors: Islamic jihadis.
This past Saturday, Israel released 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. So far, 19 Israeli and 5 Thai hostages have been released from Gaza, while over a thousand violent Palestinian jihadi prisoners have been set free from Israeli prisons. Most go back to Gaza, but many end up in Judea and Samaria.
Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are committed to Israel’s destruction, and both groups are quite active in Judea and Samaria. Brigadier General Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense And Security Forum, warns that many of these released “murderous terrorists” who make their way to Judea and Samaria establish militias.
Avivi has stated that “once this [hostage] deal is over, it will require significant military pressure on the terror infrastructure in both Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza…I trust our soldiers to do whatever is needed to secure a decisive win.”
Only four months after Hamas’ savage October 7 attack, Judea and Samaria saw a 350% rise in terrorist attacks. And last summer, Judea and Samaria was reported to be “literally on fire.” Palestinian terrorists were intentionally and persistently lighting forest fires “in an attempt to literally smoke Israeli farmers, ranchers, and settlers out of the area.”
But as usual, the anti-Israel leftist media will bypass reporting about the extreme threat to Israeli citizens which prompts IDF to respond, and they’ll promote instead the false narrative of Palestinian victimhood, which serves to aid the jihad against the State of Israel.
Take for instance, these appallingly one-sided reports:
- Israel to confiscate a thousand hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank;
- “Israel’s weeks-long raid on the occupied West Bank has displaced thousands of Palestinians and caused widespread destruction to critical infrastructure.”
- ‘Last nail in the coffin’: Israeli settlers push on with fresh West Bank land grab;
- Fears grow that West Bank could become second Gaza;
- And even in the entertainment world, the anti-Israel poisonous influence is all-pervasive: “Even if We Win an Oscar, I Will Go Back to My Cruel Reality in the West Bank’”: Basel Adra, co-director of a documentary entitled “No Other Land,” which was nominated for an Academy Award, hopes to “raise awareness in Israel and abroad of the plight of his beleaguered West Bank community.” Never mind the terror that Israelis live under — from knife attacks to bombs, just for being Jewish — and funded by the Palestinian Authority in its pay-for-slay program.
- Then there’s Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, which puts the plight of Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria side by side with the Holocaust.
The moral equivalence is obscene, and the propagandist media keeps adding more fuel to the flames of global antisemitism.
Israel is a tiny Jewish country; its people are the indigenous people of the region. Leftists are adept at groveling to special interest groups for past “colonialist” wrongs, no matter how much time and how many generations pass; the biggest colonizers in the Middle East were Islamic jihadists, who not only were unrepentant through history, but remain problematic, as jihadists continue to try to finish the job, obliterating Israel and ultimately conquering the West.
“’Released terrorists will build militias in Judea and Samaria,’” by Lidar Grave-Lazi, YNet News, February 11, 2025:
The release of thousands of “murderous terrorists” into Judea and Samaria is both complex and dangerous, according to Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense And Security Forum.
Avivi told ILTV that these terrorists will attempt to build militias.
“This is the huge problem we need to deal with, and once this [hostage] deal is over, it will require significant military pressure on the terror infrastructure in both Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza,” Avivi said. However, he emphasized that both the government and the army remain resolute in their goal of achieving total victory….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If the released prisoners are from Judea/Samaria, instead of Gaza, they should not be allowed to return there. They should be sent to Gaza first, and then they can decide whether or not to be a part of the evacuation. If not, the next time there is fighting, they are legitimate targets to this time kill, rather than capture
somehistory says
Absolutely right, Infidel.
They aren’t fish to be caught and released time and again.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
And I really like your “fish analogy”.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
rick says
The Israeli General is correct. And that was Hamas’ plan all along. Israel kills Hamas and they trade hostages they abducted for new recruits. I thought that released convicted prisoners with years remaining on their sentences were barred from moving back to any part of Israel or Gaza and were to be transferred to another place entirely. Is this an example of Arab nations saying “We are not taking any Palestinians under any conditions for any reason.” ?
The least Israel can do to counter this is to pass a Death Sentence Law for any of the released convicts if they are re-arrested and convicted of a capital crime or injury to an Israeli citizen. Putting them back in prison after they enjoy their “leave” by killing or maiming someone, only to be returned to prison where they will wait for the next trade for freeing an Israeli citizen who was abducted for that very reason is showing to everyone the utter stupidity and denial of Reality by the State of Israel.
Billy says
Israel should ban Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, etc. and deport the Muslims to Jordan for their terrorism, discrimination, and violence as taught in islam’s Law and in Islam’s Quran.
Islam and its Muslims fund, promote, and practice bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist, Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. Under Islamic Law, it is a Crime against Allah for Muslims to neglect performing Terrorism against Non-Muslims; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH THE RELIGION, ISLAM(Quran 9:29; Muslim Law Manual – “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:89,95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5, 21, 29, 36, 41, 49, 88, 111, 123; 21:92; 49:15 and more).
Steven says
The terrorists & hateful “innocent” civilians of the Fauxlistine cause are the spawn of The Oslo Accords. The architects & enablers of that deal, knew decades ago about the intolerant indoctrination being fed, yet did nothing other than the occasional finger-wave, and eye-roll.
The West’s zeitgeist and education systems have adopted the same dishonest, cowardly, apologist credo, delivered under the guise of DEI. Perhaps once, in a time far, far gone, DEI would have been a skit for The Church Lady on SNL; but tragically, it very well may be our future. Garbage-in, garbage-out.
Tony says
Muslim terrorists should be executed to the fullest extent of the Law. Win-Win because Muslims go to Allah as taught in the Quran.
Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in terrorist attacks against Non-Muslims and Muslim hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
Bruce David Watt says
Is the concept of do unto others as they do unto you/ tit for tat, foreign to Jewish culture? A bully that punches you in the face stops when hit back harder or as a famous Italian once said “you send one of mine to the hospital I will send ten of yours to the morgue”
skeptiker says
Die Islamo-Faschisten in Judäa und Samaria müssen genauso bekämpft und vertrieben werden, wie ihre Glaubenskrieger in Gaza.