Fast Draw – Attack On Tel Aviv And Never Ending Failures

Fast Draw – Attack On Tel Aviv And Never Ending Failures

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By Arie Egozi

Had the heads of state tried to treat the problem at the same speed in which they arrive at the scene of every terror attack to appear on TV, we would have been much better off.

Mere hours after last night’s terror attack in Tel Aviv, we could see prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, new appointed defense minister Avigdor Liberman and minister for public security Gilad Erdan touring the scene with sober expressions where only a short time before, people were injured and killed.

The two terrorists came from the village of Yatta in Mount. Hebron. The fence in that part, like other parts, is more like a colander with large holes than a security fence. Everyone keeps alerting – me included – but nothing is being done.

This failure takes its toll time and time again, and time and time again we see the prime minister and his ministers repeat the same empty words, such as “we have evaluated the situation and are taking the necessary steps…” etc. etc.

It’s embarrassing to see our leaders so pathetic, hastening to arrive at the scene with their combat pose. Instead, it would be better if they took care of the fence, of the thousands of illegal aliens entering Israel every day, and a long line of well-known failures which take their toll every time.

And again, in a laughable cycle, all the second and third rate politicians appear in the morning shows on TV, joining the choir of nonsense.

And if that isn’t enough, sitting in those TV studios are all the security “formers”, offering advice to the whole world on how to prevent future terror attacks. All these advices are bull, as there is nothing easier than entering Israel’s borders.

It would be interesting to see if something will change now that the current minister of defense is combatant and aggressive – according to his own statements, anyway.

It’s very easy to promise that the leader of Hamas be killed in 48 hours unless he returns the Israeli soldiers’ bodies. The test is in actions – in putting up a secured fence, in ending the entrance of illegal aliens, and more. But that you cannot do with mere words. That can only be done with clear instructions and actually checking that they were followed.

The failures that made last night’s terror attack are nothing new. No one handled them, it was all talk. That’s the way it goes here. People are running towards the cameras with expressions of tough wild west sheriffs, but beyond that – nothing, nada. Only words.