“Burn them with your Molotov cocktails.” “Set fire to them.” “Set their cars ablaze.” “Burn whatever you can.” “Burn the forests, burn the groves, burn the settlers’ homes.”
Those are some of the blood-curdling calls to set fires that Palestinians have been expressing recently, and those calls have been heeded. Since late April fires have been set all over Israel, including Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem, by Palestinian arsonists, who have answered the call.
Wildfires have been raging all over south and central Israel, and especially in the Judean Hills and the outskirts of Jerusalem, ever since the Day of Remembrance For The Fallen. The Israelis are certain that these fires have been set by “Palestinians” —civilians as well as members of terrorist groups — who want quite literally to burn down the Jewish state and destroy those whom the “Palestinians” call “the settlers,” by whom they mean not just Jews who since the Six-Day War have established communities in Judea and Samaria, but all Jewish Israelis.
After all, Hamas thought nothing of burning Israelis alive on October 7, 2023. Why would it, or the many “Palestinians” who are not members of the terror group but share its views, not set land owned either by Jews or by the Jewish state — those forests, groves of trees, nature preserves, buildings, and homes — on fire?
Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on this wave of politically-motivated arson can be found here: “‘All you have to do is burn’: Hamas calls to set fires in Jerusalem, West Bank,” by Shir Perets and Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2025:
Hamas posted a message encouraging Palestinians to “burn whatever you can of groves, forests, and settler homes,” on Telegram on Wednesday.
“Youth of the West Bank, youth of Jerusalem, and those inside Israel, set their cars ablaze… Gaza awaits the revenge of the free,” the terrorist organization wrote.
So “Palestinians” burning down much of Israel will make things easier for the “Palestinians” in Gaza? What kind of revenge is that which will only enrage the Israelis, and make things worse for themselves? What peculiar reasoning these maddened-by-hate “Palestinians” exhibit.
Earlier, the Jenin News Network Telegram channel called on Palestinians to “burn the groves near the settlements” in a post on Telegram on Wednesday.
As the wildfires continue to burn across central Israel, the channel posted a photo of a masked person setting fire to a field as a town burns in the background, with the text “Settlers’ homes will be ashes under the feet of the revolutionaries” and the hashtag “Burn settlers’ houses.”
The wildfires broke out in the Judean Hills on Wednesday morning and spread across the Jerusalem area as the day continued.
“O, youth of the West Bank,” called one inciting video. “Let us be the flame of freedom which will not die. Let us make their night – a burning day. Let us bring back to them the nightmares of the occupation, so they know that every day is a struggle for the resistance. Set fires of freedom everywhere. We will not give in and will not give up until we burn every piece of stolen land.”…
The promise that “we” — the “Palestinians” — will “not give in and will not give up until we burn every piece of stolen land” is a call for never-ending war against the Jews until they surrender, and are expelled or killed from the Land of Israel. It means that the “Palestinians” are prepared to set every last dunam alight in their war to deprive the Jews of a state of their own,
For years, the “Palestinians,” and some Israeli Arabs, too, have been committing arson attacks inside Israel, especially in the national forests and nature preserves that have been such a source of national pride to Israelis, for they symbolize a victory over desertification, as the Zionist pioneers, working heroically, “made the desert bloom again.”
When the arsonists are discovered in the act, they should be shot — not killed, but at least made to endure a severe and permanent injury. After all, this kind of arson, on such a scale, and with such a hate-filled motivation (these are not fires set to collect insurance money), clearly constitutes the attempted murder of thousands of people. Their prison sentences also have to be made much harsher. Minimum sentences of 20 years should cut down on the number of fires deliberately set by the “Palestinians.”
Israel should also bring to the attention of the UN General Assembly this attempt by the “Palestinians” to use arson as a weapon of war against all Israelis, but especially civilians. Such widespread use of arson constitutes a war crime: “It is prohibited in all circumstances to use incendiary weapons against the civilian population, civilian objects, forests or other kinds of plant cover.”
Let the facts be submitted to a candid world. The “Palestinians” are trying to destroy the land, and the people of Israel. How attached can they be to that land if they are perfectly willing to set it on fire? Arson has been used by the “Palestinians” over many years, but never to the extent as it is being employed just now as a weapon of war. This widespread arson, intended to bring death to Israeli Jews and destruction by fire to the land between the Jordan River and the sea, constitutes a war crime. What will the UN have to say about these latest, and most damaging, wildfires that were set by “Palestinians” in Israel? Oh, you know the answer to that.
Big Dude says
Take the arsonist, and make sure the arsonist manually cleans up the burnt stuff, and carries it to the edge of the wood where it is nicely packaged, trucked back to Gaza, and unloaded as part of the supplies.
somehistory says
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Walter Sieruk says
This must be “the jihad of the arson” The destructive power of Islam’s jihad takes many disastrous forms.
Billy says
This is another example of life, destruction and terrorism, with Islam and its Muslims against all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran. Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
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 Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, 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 2:208,216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Walter Sieruk says
Be Islamic malice-filled jihadists use the destructive power of arson or bombs or by other sinister means, that goals of Hamas to destroy the State of Israel and replace her with in “Islamic state” It deemed and fated to fail .For theses Muslim terrorists are wasting their time , energy for a lost and false cause.
The reason why this is so is because God loves Israel and will not , ever, let her be destroyed.
In fact, God loves Israel so greatly that He even views her as His “special treasure.” Psalm 135:4. [N.K.J.V.]
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hopefully, Israel wakes up to the folly of trusting Arab muslims within it. It’s relatively simpler to bomb Hamas & Hizbullah, but what exactly do they do about the millions of Fifth Columnists living in their midst? India has the same issue now, as Hindus are discovering that they can’t even lay Paki flags on the streets & drive over them, since Indian muslims, not Pakis, are busy retrieving them to save them
Note to both countries: start boycotting muslims en masse, and expel them. Heck, even show some diversity by following qur’an 2:191 – “Drive them out from where they drove you out”
JDow says
This again raises the ugliest question I know. If I find I eliminated every fluggitani defending myself, my family, and my nation as they tried to wipe out me, my family, and my nation in a huge genocide, am I unqualified guilty of genocide myself?
Is it genocide to eliminate your enemy who is trying to commit genocide on yourself?
I ask because I fear this is what must take place if Islam is not criticized into non-existence because it is seen as ridiculous, archaic, and stupid.
{o.o}
skeptiker says
Ich denke, Israel muss konsequent den aggressiven und militanten Islam bekämpfen. Gaza muss, genauso wie Judäa und Samaria ein Teil Israels werden, nachdem die Terroristen besiegt und ihre Familien vertrieben wurden. Dann könnte sich Israel, ohne die ständige Bedrohung, in das größte prosperierende Land im Nahen Osten entwickeln und Magnet für Exzellenz, Kreativität und Unternehmergeist werden.
Ein ganzjähriges mildes Klima mit schönen Stränden am Mittelmeer und jeder Menge History und Kultur, werden Tourismus und Einwanderung befördern.
Deano says
Waiting for CAIR to decry this destruction in the Holy Land…..still waiting!
OLD GUY says
Well one thing Islam is not is environmentally LOVING. And where are the environmentalist protestors? Seems like the environmental damage being promoted by Hamas and Islam would be worth protesting about. This is NOT an accidental environmental incident, it’s intentional. So where is the 24 hour media coverage and lawyers going after those who are responsible.
Major Tom says
Put out the arsonist!