Egozi’s Fury – Intelligence Stops At the Fence

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)

The fence – or more like the big holes along it – in the area of Mount Hebron will be replaced with a “smart fence” which should stop the daily flow of Palestinians into Israel. This fence may be smart but the decision to use it was received after a very un-smart behavior by the government, which dragged its feet while hundreds of Palestinians entered Israel daily unsupervised.

Only this last wave of terror, after costing many lives, has convinced our thick government to put up a fence to prevent this uncontrollable entry.

Too bad that so many had to pay with their lives for the decision to be made.

———————————–

And more on the government. The IDF has recommended this week to offer some relief to Palestinians in the West Bank. But it also recommended providing more weapons to the Palestinian Authority and to release administrative prisoners.

I hope our weak government realizes these are two recommendations completely divorced from any reality.

Such a step would only give more deadly weapons to commit remote assaults to the terror organizations. Whoever thinks there’s any difference between the Palestinian authority and other bodies in the West Bank is mistaken. The authority is a central instigator and to give it more weapons is a reward for incitement.

The release of administrative prisoners is also a reward for terror. But to realize this we need ministers who don’t comply with any recommendation. We need ministers who think, understand and do their job seriously. Most ministers are nothing of the sort. I hope the few who are doing their job seriously will not accept the IDF recommendations for providing weapons and releasing administrative prisoners.

—————————————————–

To think that such an issue would even come up in the middle of a terror wave. A policeman who shot two female terrorists in Jerusalem had done his job excellently. But some bleeding hearts who still don’t understand where we live have raised the stupid question of whether there was a need for another shot after the terrorists were already down on the ground, wounded. What were they thinking? There have been cases in the past where terrorists who were injured, tried to continue stabbing. Terrorists should be killed.

In Israel there is some stupid term invented every once in a while, which the whole media adopts without even checking. “Neutralizing” in the term coined in this current Intifada.

But neutralizing is not to give a smack on the hand to drop the terrorist’s knife. Neutralizing is to eliminate the threat completely. But these wise guys are always looking to comment on everything. If they had been there instead of the police officer, this would not have come up.

The Israeli Police did well to fully back the officer the eliminated the threat rather than just neutralizing it. In the war against terror there are no shortcuts and there are no easy ways out.

————————————————–

And since this is Homeland Security we are dealing with, keeping people safe, here is another angle. The growth in the number of lethal car accidents is dreadful. In the coming days the new Chief of Police is to enter his position at last. He has many tasks ahead of him, but I’m talking about the issue of car accidents. It is true that many of them are caused by lacking infrastructures, but many of them could have prevented had the police shown more presence.

The new Chief of Police needs to demand the means. Some food for thought – If terror attacks had killed people in a similar number to that of the people dead from car accidents, the country would be in an uproar. We must not accept car accidents as something that cannot be helped. We need to do something that is one of the things we expect of the new Chief of Police.