A year ago, Brigadier General Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense And Security Forum, warned that many of the released “murderous terrorists” from prison would make their way to Judea and Samaria, establish militias, and wage jihad there. He added that significant military pressure will be required to be put “on the terror infrastructure in both Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza,” and said that he trusted “our soldiers to do whatever is needed to secure a decisive win.”
The pattern is obvious: Arab Muslim and leftist propaganda portray Israel as the aggressor, when the truth is that Israel is reacting defensively in the face of a determined jihad aimed at obliterating the Jewish state from the River to the Sea. Most frustrating is how many leaders across the Western world cannot see it, or perhaps they can, which is even more disturbing.
“With Hamas focused on Gaza, Islamic Jihad seen filling vacuum in West Bank,” by Nava Freiberg and Noam Lehmann, Times of Israel, February 23, 2026:
With Hamas constrained by a host of political and military factors, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the most prominent Palestinian terror group after Hamas, has upped its recruitment and propaganda efforts in the West Bank, analysts and former officials told The Times of Israel.
Filling a vacuum created by Hamas — which has faced grinding IDF pressure while its Gaza leadership deprioritizes the West Bank — Islamic Jihad has increasingly asserted itself in the northern West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority’s grasp is more tenuous than the rest of the territory.
With Islamic Jihad more closely supported by Iran than Hamas, more decentralized than Hamas and unencumbered by any pretense toward governance, any move the group makes toward West Bank dominance could prove more of an insidious challenge to Israel….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Even if Israel can’t annex Judea and Samaria, they still need to crack down on islamic jihad, as well as PFLP, DFLP and Fatah
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Militarily, Israel could annex Judea and Samaria – if they wanted to.
rick says
Palestinians are never at a loss for terrorists. They are the only “product” they know how to produce.
ploome says
Is there a difference between the two?
(or any of them?)
OLD GUY says
They are one and the same, Islamic terrorist.
Billy says
Muslim terrorist. Every Muslim is a terrorist for Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”