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Lenny Goldberg, who lives in Samaria and has his own Bible Study podcast series, analyzes the facts on the ground in Samaria which led to the recent tragedy in which two Israelis, a security officer and IDF major, were killed during last Friday’s terror attack near Havat Gilad, in which Benayahu Melet, of blessed memory, and Maj. Yuval Ezra, 27, from Herzliya, were needlessly murdered. This relates to the recent terror attack in Samaria when the Arab terrorists actually waited for the opportunity to seize a rifle from an Israeli security officer acting under every greater restraint from acting in self defense. The unhesitating manner in which the terrorist responded by turning that gun on the unarmed Jews demonstrates not only the premeditated nature of the attack, but that it was conducted while recognizing that the security forces would reluctant to use their fire arms in any way which might provide a meaningful deterrent to the mayhem which ensued.
Why are Jews made to be more concerned about the prospect of maintaining access to a firearm to protect their fellow Jews than actually using that firearm to provide security for their fellow Jews. The judicial and administrative steps taken to restrain the Jews of Judea and Samaria have in fact transformed these heroes into living targets of terror, as the terrorists know that if the Jewish security forces act using force to prevent such a tragedy as took place last Friday, it will only lead to greater restraints being placed on the Jewish security members while ignoring the inciteful outrages being conducted by the Arabs. This is why the sweeps taking place in Judea and Samaria are likely to have less of an effect than expected, because the support for the terrorists is likewise being enacted by the whimsical judgements of the High Court and administrative judgements being enforced by the IDF leaders in Central Command under Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth.
So the problem of terrorism growing in Judea and Samaria is not just due to the terrorist intentions of the terrorists alone, but also due to the fact that they are now making use of the penalizing rules of engagement under which even a modicum of security is being afforded to Jews in the area who are doing nothing more inciteful than taking a hike across the Samarian hills. When was the last time a group of Jews open fire on a group of Arabs just because they were hiking? In fact, when was the first time…
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Karim Khan, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
A few days after Israel entered the old city of Jerusalem in the Six Days War it cleared the most sacred Jewish place – the Western Wall of the Temple. Photo by Yehuda Greenberg, Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, 
