We need to resettle Homesh immediately, thereby making those who want to chase us out of the area – and all of the Land of Israel – pay.
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Terrorist organizations life in hope that through killings and murder they will be able to chase the Jews out of their homeland. This hope needs to be wiped out by building a settlement at exactly the place where they carried out a murder and wounded two other people.
There is no place like Homesh, which was evacuated in the 2005 disengagement, to start making the terrorists and their support network pay. It should be rebuilt on its ruins, right away.
This would be an appropriate Zionist answer, one that is in line with the early days of Zionism, when the Jewish Yishuv was under attacks by Arab gangs and responded by setting up more settlements. It should be continued now. It isn't just a moral response, it's also deterrence and a defense response.
The War of Independence, which began when the enemy attacked the areas that the Partition Plan left us, ended with them annexing the areas from which they launched an all-out assault. We need to do the same thing today, post-Oslo.
They declared a war on the lands left in our hands in Judea and Samaria, after the Oslo Accords gave them Areas A and B, which they turned into bases of terrorism. Now they are violating the Oslo Accords in Area C, which belongs to us – through a well-organized and well-funded campaign backed by the Palestinian Authority and hostile foreign entities. We need to retaliate by expanding the settlements. Israel should begin rebuilding Homesh, which was evacuated in the despicable disengagement, even though it wasn't part of the Oslo Accords, because of its importance as a strategic outlook over the coastal plain region, as well.
When terrorists are tried, the source of their inspiration to murder appears again and again. It comes from the mosques and the Palestinians media, which has morally perverse protection called "freedom of speech." Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to incite against us on radio and TV stations, in interviews and programs that glorify murderers of Jews.
It's time to respond. With arrest operations. They should start with the incitement stations, under anti-terror laws. The radio and TV frequencies they received under the Paris Protocol as part of the Oslo Accords should be shut down. The IDF can do it.
Israel ignores the funds the PA continues to channel to terrorists and their families. If the Homesh terrorists are captured alive, they will be added to the list of recipients of terrorist stipends.
The continued payments encourage terrorism. And when our government looks away or even agrees to them, it sends a message that downplays the seriousness of their actions, that it isn't too bothered by all the terrorist activity or can, unfortunately, live with it.
Although the murdered can't live with the situation and it's hard for the wounded, as well. There is internal incitement, coming from Israel. The government also has to put an immediate stop to incitement by political officials against settlers in the Knesset and in the cabinet. The enemy can do this and doesn't need help from us. We cannot give any sort of legitimacy or justification to the other side. Words have power. Incitement is the ground from which terrorist actions grow, first rocks and knives and now guns.
When the terrorists and their handlers hear the latest remarks by ministers and MKs – not necessarily Arab ones – who talk about murderers and terrorists and settlers in the same breath, the other side realizes that just like they sang in the time of the British, "the government is with them and the Jews are our dogs."
To stop this, Prime Minister Bennett must announce what he declared in the past – that we are returning to Homesh!
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