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Stupidity has no boundaries, especially when it is the Israeli government. After a “breathing lockdown” was cast on the city of Ramallah saying that there is intelligence on a terrorist activity in the city, all restrictions were once again lifted.

Terrorists then reached to Damascus Gate without any difficulty. There was no breathing lockdown nor a choking lockdown. Nothing. As if roads from Jenin to Jerusalem pass in Switzerland.

This is how those helpless people in the government are trying to stop the wave of terror. They don’t understand that only a general lockdown will stop it. But fear of the the “world” might say is paralyzing for those meant to run this country and keep its citizens safe.

Be prepared for all time records of helplessness. If it hadn’t meant the loss of human lives, it might have been funny.

After the terrible terror attack at the Damascus Gate another temporary lockdown was cast on two areas. Everything is loose and undecisive.
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Female fighter in the border police who ran into terrorists near the Damascus Gate fought bravely. But the question remains: Was it wise to put two fighters fresh out of training in such a hostile place as that?

Maybe such a place calls for more experienced fighters. Courage and determination as that shown by those female fighters should have been backed with experience.

Even an ongoing battle against terror needs some thought to be put in, and a lot. Actually, it’s only thinking that can bring results in the ongoing battle of Israel against Palestinian terrorism.

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The “partner” for peace deserves credit. It doesn’t even try to pretend. It keeps backing terror while here politicians are protesting how there are no peace talks.

So here it is – a short while after the attack in the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem where a border police officer, Hadar Cohen, was murdered, the president of the Palestinian national authority Abu Mazen met with families of terrorists in his chamber. Those terrorists from the Jerusalem area committed attacks, some very terrible ones, during the last escalation – and their families met with Abu Mazen after one of the most terrible attacks in this wave of terror, where three attackers used guns and knives and even brought with them explosives.

So this is the man some of our politicians want to make peace with. The man is blatantly supporting terrorism and hopes he will be the one to solve the Palestinian problem. Someone should explain to him that he’s playing a game of make-believe.

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American and European companies manufacturing unmanned vehicles have joined the long line of companies waiting by the government offices in Tehran to sell Iranians their merchandise.

This sales festivities is so large on both sides that no one even noticed that this is a sale of supposedly civil systems which are easily converted for military needs.

Iran itself is not Israel’s direct enemy here, but it will deliver those systems to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

But the “music” accompanying these sales is not only shutting some Western governments’ ears, but also their brains.

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And to end: The finance minister has announced that there is enough money to put up a block meant to stop the tunnels being dug fro Gaza from reaching Israeli territory. The IDF drills are going deeper underground trying to discover whatever tunnels have already reached our territory.

But this is not enough. Israel must make it clear to head of Hamas in Gaza that should a tunnel be discovered inside Israeli territory, the reaction will be wild, hard and not like the reactions IDF had when rockets were being fired into Israel – a bomb on the sand next to beach of Gaza. Big holes in the dirt are not making any impression on Hamas.

This equation must be clear. But I doubt that would happen. A weak government cannot even make a reliable threat.

Arie Egozi iHLS editor-in-chief
Arie Egozi
iHLS editor-in-chief