The terrorist organizations are satisfied with the results of the murderous attack in the Ariel area this week, even though the person who carried out the attack was a lone terrorist, Mohammed Souf from Kfar Khares in Samaria, who does not belong to any terror organization.
According to Israeli security officials, what motivated the terrorist to carry out the attack was the effect of the intense wave of incitement by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the media and social networks.
However, it is impossible to ignore the effect of the general atmosphere in the West Bank created as a result of the terrorism of the armed groups in the northern West Bank which creates a new narrative of a struggle against Israel by all means, this activity also encourages the individual terrorists to go out into the area and carry out attacks.
This created a situation on the ground in which Israel has to fight simultaneously against the organized terrorism of the Palestinian terrorist groups and against the phenomenon of individual terrorists on whom it is very difficult to obtain intelligence.
The serious attack this week in the city of Ariel highlights the fact that the activity of the IDF and the Shin Bet against the terrorist group “Lions Den” in Nablus was not enough to deter the terrorists, the group itself is being rehabilitated and new terrorist groups continue to arise in the Nablus and Jenin area.
The challenge of the new terrorist groups and the individual terrorists now is to embarrass the new right-wing government in Israel by increasing terrorism in order to present it as powerless in the security field.
Eight months have passed since the start of the IDF’s large arrest operation in the West Bank, the operation does not succeed in stopping the wave of terrorism, the IDF employs 25 battalions in anti-terrorist activities in the West Bank and the IDF’s training routine has been compromised, the intention of Palestinian terrorism is to exhaust the IDF forces a war of attrition is taking place in the area.
The Bennett and Lapid governments did not stop the wave of terrorism that spread from the Jenin area to the Nablus area in time because of their fear of the Biden administration and their desire to preserve the .Palestinian Authority
In the Northern West Bank there is a presence of hundreds of armed terrorists.
This is the first security challenge of the Netanyahu government, it is true that it is difficult to deal with the phenomenon of individual terrorists, but it is possible to eliminate the phenomenon of new terrorist groups, the IDF has already done this in the past.
Prime Minister-elect Netanyahu must order the IDF to change its security concept, temporarily occupy the northern West Bank and cleanse it of the nests of terrorism supported by Islamic Jihad and Iran.
The terrorist groups are trying to drag the IDF into a war of attrition, we must put an end to this and eliminate them .
