A senior IDF officer said that since the IDF is unable to stop the terrorist attacks on Route 60, between the Gush Etzion Junction and Kiryat Arba (Hebron), and specifically the section that passes by the Arab villages of El Arub and Beit Ummar, the army will instead be building a bypass road and a bridge, The Jewish Press was told by reliable sources.
Etzion Brigade commander Col. Yaniv Elalouf said in a closed meeting with local residents of Efrat that the bypass road would move Israeli traffic around 200-300 meters away from El Arub and 400 meters away away from Beit Umar. The road would also be raised on a bridge in that section, and come out near Carmei Tzur.
The officer said that the current proximity of Arab houses to the main highway provides the terrorists with the cover needed to to easily attack Israeli motorists and then quickly escape. By building a bypass bridge and road, the terrorists would be forced out into an open area to commit their terror attacks (or use longer range weapons).
The officer estimated that the road would be finished within a year to a year and a half.
The officer said that the road is not being built because we are afraid, but because the IDF is unable to contain the attacks.
The road will likely cost millions of dollars to build, at a time when the government budget in general and the IDF portion of it in particular are being cut. But there’s a more profound cost to this decision, in morale and in the continued IDF failed strategy of dealing with terrorism in Judea and Samaria.
No one is doubting any longer that a full-fledged third intifada has been brewing there, encouraged by statements made by visiting President Barack Obama, as well as more recent statements by visiting Secretary of State John Kerry. But the IDF’s approach to this acute problem of lawlessness and murder, is to name it “popular terrorism” — meaning it is somehow legitimized by the fact that a lot of Arabs support it — and to invent mad plots of “containing” it.
It begins with rules of engagement that essentially turn any IDF man on patrol into a potential prisoner, should he actually try and do his job (IDF Soldiers Humiliated by Arab Rioters: We Are Sitting Ducks). This has resulted in so many IDF units fleeing the scene of confrontation, they’ve become a running gag in the daily entertainment of Arab youths. Watch the Jewish soldiers run, M-16 rifles and all, from kids who throw rocks at them.
The other face of this shameful attempt to “contain” violent criminals, is through technology. IDF soldiers on patrol have been issued vests that improve their ability to sustain blows (IDF Latest Response to Arab Riots: ‘Nerf’ Bullets). And wherever Arabs make it a habit to pelt Jews with rock and firebombs, Israel responds by erecting fences, paving alternative roads and now, how majestic, actually build a bridge above the troubled area.
There’s only one area where Israel’s security forces appear to enforce a zero tolerance approach — whenever Jews are responding to their violent neighbors. If the IDF and the GSS applied the same zeal to picking up Arab terrorists and keeping them in jail, they wouldn’t really need this bridge to nowhere.
This is a link to a YouTube video of the officer’s appearance last Saturday night.
The following is a translation of the officer’s speech on the video. The video was shot by Natan Epstein of the Tazpit News Agency.
- The question is twofold: One, the road leading south from Gush Etzion and Hebron is difficult, I will tell you here, it is the most difficult road in Judea and Samaria. It is the road that poses the toughest challenges in terms of popular terrorism. The other part of the question suggested that parents of children and youths who participate in popular terrorism should be punished.
The proper response to the issues regarding the road from the Gush junction to Kiryat Arba is to pave a new road. I truly and honestly believe that in the near future this road, which everybody has known for a decade, will be paved, 200 to 300 meters west of its current path, avoiding the Al-Arroub refugee camp where the beating down of the protective fences takes place. The new road will run over a tall bridge which will let us pass far away from Beit Ummar – 400 meters – and will return to the highway at the Karmei Tzur junction.
A senior IDF officer said that since the IDF is unable to stop the terrorist attacks on Route 60, between the Gush Etzion Junction and Kiryat Arba (Hebron), and specifically the section that passes by the Arab villages of El Arub and Beit Ummar, the army will instead be building a bypass road and a bridge, The Jewish Press was told by reliable sources.
Etzion Brigade commander Col. Yaniv Elalouf said in a closed meeting with local residents of Efrat that the bypass road would move Israeli traffic around 200-300 meters away from El Arub and 400 meters away away from Beit Umar. The road would also be raised on a bridge in that section, and come out near Carmei Tzur.
The officer said that the current proximity of Arab houses to the main highway provides the terrorists with the cover needed to to easily attack Israeli motorists and then quickly escape. By building a bypass bridge and road, the terrorists would be forced out into an open area to commit their terror attacks (or use longer range weapons).
The officer estimated that the road would be finished within a year to a year and a half.
The officer said that the road is not being built because we are afraid, but because the IDF is unable to contain the attacks.
The road will likely cost millions of dollars to build, at a time when the government budget in general and the IDF portion of it in particular are being cut. But there’s a more profound cost to this decision, in morale and in the continued IDF failed strategy of dealing with terrorism in Judea and Samaria.
No one is doubting any longer that a full-fledged third intifada has been brewing there, encouraged by statements made by visiting President Barack Obama, as well as more recent statements by visiting Secretary of State John Kerry. But the IDF’s approach to this acute problem of lawlessness and murder, is to name it “popular terrorism” — meaning it is somehow legitimized by the fact that a lot of Arabs support it — and to invent mad plots of “containing” it.
It begins with rules of engagement that essentially turn any IDF man on patrol into a potential prisoner, should he actually try and do his job (IDF Soldiers Humiliated by Arab Rioters: We Are Sitting Ducks). This has resulted in so many IDF units fleeing the scene of confrontation, they’ve become a running gag in the daily entertainment of Arab youths. Watch the Jewish soldiers run, M-16 rifles and all, from kids who throw rocks at them.
The other face of this shameful attempt to “contain” violent criminals, is through technology. IDF soldiers on patrol have been issued vests that improve their ability to sustain blows (IDF Latest Response to Arab Riots: ‘Nerf’ Bullets). And wherever Arabs make it a habit to pelt Jews with rock and firebombs, Israel responds by erecting fences, paving alternative roads and now, how majestic, actually build a bridge above the troubled area.
There’s only one area where Israel’s security forces appear to enforce a zero tolerance approach — whenever Jews are responding to their violent neighbors. If the IDF and the GSS applied the same zeal to picking up Arab terrorists and keeping them in jail, they wouldn’t really need this bridge to nowhere.
This is a link to a YouTube video of the officer’s appearance last Saturday night.
The following is a translation of the officer’s speech on the video. The video was shot by Natan Epstein of the Tazpit News Agency.
The question is twofold: One, the road leading south from Gush Etzion and Hebron is difficult, I will tell you here, it is the most difficult road in Judea and Samaria. It is the road that poses the toughest challenges in terms of popular terrorism. The other part of the question suggested that parents of children and youths who participate in popular terrorism should be punished.
The proper response to the issues regarding the road from the Gush junction to Kiryat Arba is to pave a new road. I truly and honestly believe that in the near future this road, which everybody has known for a decade, will be paved, 200 to 300 meters west of its current path, avoiding the Al-Arroub refugee camp where the beating down of the protective fences takes place. The new road will run over a tall bridge which will let us pass far away from Beit Ummar – 400 meters – and will return to the highway at the Karmei Tzur junction.
We’re not doing this because we’re afraid. We’re doing it because the operational reality of a road running inside [an Arab] village creates challenges which inevitably require our daily responses. And, still, in order that I fail in my mission, all it takes are 20 seconds out of a 24 hour period, in which a stone is thrown.
By the way, this causes my own stomach to turn, too. When this happens near us, we experience a feeling of real failure, that we haven’t been able to prevent this one rock.
Our longer term response—meaning a year to a year and a half—we must complete this new road. That’s the first item. The second item is to increase the number of soldiers on this road.
@ Canadian Otter:
‘In the meantime the Justice Minister. . .”
Don’t you mean the Injustice Minister?
STONES ARE NOT DANGEROUS has determined the IDF top brass. An IDF prosecutor even said a few weeks ago that it was only a mischievous activity. In the meantime baby Adele, who was critically injured by a rock attack, is still unconscious. A beautiful child whose future is now uncertain because Israeli authorities have determined that it’s better to have Jews injured and killed than to upset murderous Arab Nazis by arresting them. http://israelmatzav.blogspot.ca/2013/05/outrageous-official-idf-policy-stones.html#links – In the meantime the Justice Minister is trying to have Jewish graffiti officially declared acts of terror.
I agree completely with the prevailing point of view here. The solution is to confront and put down the attackers. And I also agree that avoiding such confrontations is a creeping ghetto mentality. But the job is not as easy as it sounds. It has to be a sustainable confrontation where the attackers can be convinced that such attacks will always be put down. And part of the reason the attacks take place is to provoke the authorities to a larger confrontation. They would like to see the authorities come in as much as anyone.
Does anyone have more info on this?
I just got the recent book “Grey Wolf, the Escape of Adolf H”. – The preface outlines the ease with which the world accepted the suicide story with no evidence whatsoever. One of the reasons given is that this myth helped the US and Britain denazify and build a new Germany. Stalin never bought the story and H’s supposed skull in Russia turned out to be that of a female. ~~~ Anyway, the book tells that Israel made little effort to follow up on rumors about AH and other nazis being in South America. The search for Eichmann occurred only after repeated requests by a survivor in Argentina who knew Eichmann’s sons. ~~~~ A while back I read that after Eichmann’s trial, Germany put pressure on Israel not to hunt down any more nazis. Does anyone have information on why Israeli intelligence services did not try to capture other nazis in the first few years after the war? Their whereabouts would not have been too hard to find. There were nazi colonies in Argentina and in other S. Am countries. ~~~ Other than at the Nuremberg trial nobody made much effort to capture or punish top Nazis. On the contrary, they were hired by several Western countries and the USSR.
A bridge here, a wall there. This is the creeping ghetto mentality imposed by your leadership. In old times they would reinforce walls, doors, and windows. These days they do that too, and in addition they build higher separation walls instead of aprehending the terrorists and relocating the rest. Their idea is to make the ghetto safer, not of living as free, self-respecting, sovereign citizens under a fair rule of law.
Your leadership don’t consider the above measures enough, so they work on your mindset as well. They take inspiration from old Europe and from Jewish dhimmi status in the Muslim world. ~~~ Praying at Temple Mount is a high offense. Jewish vandalism is “terror”, while Arab violence is allowed. And don’t you dare defend yourself against Arab mobs because you will be prosecuted. Be stoic. Be humble. Be patient. Be quiet. ~~~ Your authorities keep reassuring you how tough the Israeli govt will be with those that threaten the country. This is part of their playacting. In fact, your politicians are more like chickens picking on other Jews, while they bow to present and former Jew killers. The pretense of Israel as an independent nation is being kept just long enough till they have surrendered enough land to make Israel indefensible.
yitzd Said:
did you think I was talking about moving the actual buildings? 🙂
ppksky Said:
It may be cheaper but it is not a sustainable solution. They will find other ways to attack jews.
There should be no apologies for removing hostile populations who repeatedly prove their genocidal intentions. There should be no special consideration given them that was not given to Jews fleeing arab countries. It is simply a matter of holding ones own safety and interests above those of proven existential enemies. It has been done before by others, it has been done to the Jews in spite of the Geneva conventions. Why should the Jews be expected to do differently or put themselves in unnecessary danger when the the problem can be easily solved in permanent, sustainable fashion. Double standards indicate anti semitism which should be absolutely unacceptable to any Jew. Jews spend way too much time and energy on the interests of those who spend not one moment of time or energy on the interests of Jews. Everyone tries to figure out what the arabs will accept. Screw the arabs, they will accept only what they are force to accept and their acceptance is irrelevant and time consuming. Jews try too hard to please and appease others, enough already.
Malicious bastards.
Pathetic. This is not a solution to terror, this is surrender.
PICTURES – Real polar bear meets little boy in bear costume (through a zoo glass window). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331459/Heres-looking-YOU-adorable-moment-polar-bear-gets-glimpse-boy-bear-suit.html
Chicago through the fog – Very beautiful –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328924/Beautiful-pictures-foggy-Chicago-gets-blanketed-morning-mist.html
Another thing to consider is that if they move the road, the Arab village will just expand to surround the road again. In fact, the road’s construction may actually enable the village’s expansion. If the road is to be built is should be engineered to isolate the village and act as a wall between the people on the road and the village. The project should be strategically hostile to the village. If the road is actually structured to isolate the village, it would be definitely cheaper than moving the village, however gratifying that might be.
bernard ross Said:
It all sounds nice in theory but one simply does not “move” Arab villages, El Aroub and Beit Umar have been boils on the tochas of Gush Etzion for more years than I care to remember. There is only one solution, Menachem Begin Z”L knew what to do in Dir Yassin and that is what must be done to El Aroub and Beit Umar, we could do it the easy way or we could meet resistance as we transfer them, but to quote Rav Kahane HY”D THEY MUST GO !
All things considered, expelling someone or a multiplicity of someones is far less expensive than multimillion dollar highway and bridge construction, which also causes environmental damages.
The local militia Yamit suggests will come before long. The Jewish settlers in the pre-1948 Yishuv figured out that the British Imperial administration would do little or nothing to protect Jews from Arab depredations. So they found ways to get their own guns, and got trained in their use. Now, just about every Jew in Israel has been trained in self-defense through Zahal, the Israel Defense Forces. If the government in Jerusalem cannot or will not protect the settlers, the settlers can find ways to arm themselves shoot to kill when necessary. If enough people band together to do this, the government loses its ability to stop them. That’s the way all revolutions work, you know.
Over here in the USA, that is why there are more than 300 million firearms owned by civilians, and the majority of the population is armed. That’s also why we of the American gun culture are building the National Rifle Association as the most powerful lobbying organization in America.
If you want to protect your lives and your liberties in Eretz-Yisrael, don’t listen to the American liberals, Jewish or otherwise. Listen to the hard-core right-wingers, mostly Christian but which includes a growing number of Jews who have guns and know when and under what circumstances to use them.
Obama may get away with screwing around with the rest of these sheep. But not us. Not now, not ever. Nobody ever is going to disarm us, because we, the armed citizens of the USA, are the largest army that ever was organized on the face of this planet. And people like me are introducing political self-awareness to all the gun owners. That’s something else Obama can never stop.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ yamit82:
@ Steve Smyser:
@ Shy Guy:
@ NormanF:
Well, looks as though everyone is on the same page.
Makes sense.
I am not expert, far from it but, I feel the IDF bottom up agree with you and would love to play a part in it.
The rules of engagement need to be changed. Instead of building a bypass road where it looks like we are running with our tails between our legs, a message to the locals should be sent. If anyone raises an arm or hand to throw a rock, boulder or firebomb, they run the risk of losing that limb to the snipers posted on the hilltops overlooking the roads. After the third or fourth person is brought back home missing a limb, the episodes will decrease. If humanists protest, send them a picture of the infant lying brain-dead in the hospital from these “harmless” projectiles
yamit82 Said:
Jews should eliminate Arab terrorists hiding out in the villages. Kill them and then kill their families. That will eliminate the problem and lead the Arabs to fear and respect the Jews. Hiding from the Arabs solves nothing and is rightly viewed by them as an admission the Jews are on the run.
@ Shy Guy:
Stupid Jews – they try to pretend the Arabs don’t exist instead of kicking them out of the country!
yamit82 is right – do not bypass the problem, eliminate it.
Shy Guy Said:
bernard ross Said:
Building a by pass road is a government and IDF fig leaf for inaction in dealing with the Arabs.
It’s cowardice and appeasement on one hand and because it will not stop terror it’s murder and treason.
I have long supported the residents to form a militia and do what ever is necessary to protect themselves including preemption and asserting a proactive approach. Every attack should be responded to disproportionately. If the government opposes do it anyway.
better to remove the arab villages, a more sustainable solution.
Idiot Jews.