Author: Shlomo
Following the murderous terrorist attack at the Allenby border crossing this morning (Sunday), the Regavim movement is calling on the government to “stop all humanitarian aid convoys from Jordan destined for Hamas.”
As far as we know, the attack that did not involve a truck from a so-called “humanitarian” convoy bound for Hamas. Nevertheless, potential attempts to imitate similar attacks disguised as humanitarian aid pose a serious threat to the safety of our soldiers, who are forced to escort convoys supplying supplies that end up in the hands of Hamas terrorists.
In order to bring the hostages home and defeat Hamas, this well-oiled process of sending “humanitarian” convoys to Sinwar must be stopped immediately.
We already know what Palestinian Authority officials think about the October 7th massacre (https://bit.ly/4cScQc5). How long will we continue deluding ourselves that the PA is a “partner for peace?”
Regavim’s hard-hitting report, “Officers by Day, Terrorists by Night,” (https://bit.ly/4e8hHXK) provides details of dozens of Palestinian Authority police officers who have murdered and maimed Israelis. Since the publication of our report, the list of terrorists in uniform – and the list of Israeli victims – have grown, as more Israeli civilians have been attacked and more IDF soldiers have been lost in the battle to bring PA terrorists to justice. All the while, the United States, Europe and even the Israeli government continue to fund this madness and to prop up Mahmoud Abbas and his corrupt regime. We continue to treat the PA with kid gloves, to pretend they’re no more dangerous than neighborhood traffic cops who don’t carry deadly weapons and don’t point their guns at those they are charged with protecting. We pretend that the PA lives up to its commitment to combat terrorism and to extradite terrorists – and we ignore the fact that the PA pays, encourages, trains, arms and glorifies terrorists and protects them from the long arm of the IDF.
Yesterday morning, three Israeli police officers were killed in a terrorist attack while defending our Homeland. The terrorist was an officer in the personal guard of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who has recently been honored by some of the Israeli leadership.
On Saturday night, two car bombs exploded in Gush Etzion perpetrated by Fatah, the PA’s military wing.
We must end the conspiracy of silence. We must stop denying who the terrorists really are. We must wake up and acknowledge that the Palestinian Authority is, and always has been, up to its ears in terrorism. It’s time to hold them responsible!
There is no difference between Gaza, Judea and Samaria. There is no difference between the kibbutzim and moshavim of the Gaza Envelope and the kibbutzim and moshavim of the Sharon region. Israeli children should not be living under the threat of a terrorist state right next door.
Naomi Kahn, Director of the International Division at Regavim, responds to this viral video – https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1827823458371465372 – and the false story
Not a mirage:
Yesterday, we hosted a press tour of the Judean Desert Nature Reserve, and it was truly heart-wrenching.
The journalists who joined us saw with their own eyes how, in direct violation of the Oslo Accords and the Wye River Memorandum, illegal construction in the nature reserve has spiraled out of control, under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority.
This is not just a catastrophic disruption of the unique and delicate desert ecosystem of the nature reserve located in the heart of the Judean Desert; it is also a blatant violation of international law, and a significant strategic threat to the security of every citizen of Israel.
Now that the Knesset has reinstated enforcement authority in the nature reserve, we call on the Civil Administration to act decisively: confiscate equipment, prevent further destruction of the pristine desert landscape and pollution of the Dead Sea, demolish illegal structures and roads that have scarred the terrain, and stop the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing efforts to create territorial contiguity that threatens the future of the desert and the entire Land of Israel.
Read an article on the subject on @jns:
https://www.jns.org/israelis-demand-civil-administration-reclaim-gush-nature-reserve-from-pa/
The Palestinian Authority’s arms and annexation race: More than 19,000 illegal structures have been built over the years, many within only a kilometer of the fence.
A multi-story building, massive villas, and a factory covering 21,000 square meters create dangerous territorial contiguity in western Samaria, threatening what was intended as a “sterile zone” along the security seamline.
Just a few minutes from the communities of Elkana and Etz Efraim in Samaria, and only a few kilometers from the security barrier near Rosh HaAyin, a sprawling Palestinian neighborhood is being established, effectively connecting the Palestinian Authority-controlled villages of Mas’ha and Biddya. The construction is progressing rapidly, with heavy machinery actively developing the area virtually round the clock. Even a brief tour of the site is enough to leave one speechless: a high-rise residence with preparations for a swimming pool in the yard, luxurious villas and a massive industrial structure spanning 21,000 square meters.
Regavim’s analysis of aerial photographs and other documentation prove that construction began during the COVID-19 pandemic and has accelerated over the past two years. All construction is taking place in Area C, which is under full Israeli responsibility and control, without any permits or Israeli oversight.
Recent publications highlighting the threat in the seam zone have focused attention on developments east of the security fence in Judea and Samaria. This new expose’ reveals that in the seam zone area, comprised in part of designated IDF firing zones and state lands, no less than 19,000 illegal structures have been built over the years , some within only 1 kilometer of the fence.
Roi Druker, Regavim’s Field Coordinator for Judea and Samaria: “The rampant illegal construction out of Mas’ha and Biddya is creating a major threat. Masquerading as innocent civilian construction, these projects are far from innocent and far from random. They are the building blocks of Palestinian territorial contiguity, links in the chain of thousands of illegal structures that Israel has ignored for years, allowing construction violations to become a clear and imminent strategic threat. These very structures – homes, villas, factories and roads – are the foundations of a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel.” Drucker added, “The people of Israel have learned the hard way that any construction near the security fence is a potential launching bad and base of operations for terror, and Israel can no longer abandon the seamline area and sit back and wait for the next October 7th. The time to act is now.”
July 18, 2024 – The Knesset – Jerusalem, Israel
The People Have Spoken: NO to a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel!
Regavim welcomes the historic Knesset resolution against the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel:
“With an overwhelming majority of votes and cross-party consensus, an important declarative decision was passed against the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.
We congratulate all the members of the Knesset who supported this Zionist decision. We thank the initiator of the discussion MK Zeev Elkin and the chairmen of the Land of Israel caucus MK Yuli Edelstein MK Limor Sonn Har Melech and MK Simcha Rothman for leading the move.
This decision sends a clear and unequivocal message to all our enemies and gives special encouragement to our heroic fighters who are fighting until we destroy Hamas and all the hostages are returned.
Yesterday’s decision was a significant step forward, but the fight is not over yet. We call on the government and the Knesset to continue to act decisively and resolutely to ensure the security and future of the State of Israel.
In the face of dangerous construction plans in the territory of our sheep pastures, and the praise of martyrs and supporters of the October Seventh — the Israeli government must stand firm and take full responsibility for the territories of the homeland; in Judea and Samaria, in the area of the seam line, in the Negev and the Galilee and the entire State of Israel.
The voice of the people that was heard last night in the legislature gives its support to its elected officials to act in this way to ensure that all of Israel will forever remain the safe home of the Jewish people.”
Regavim congratulates the government of Israel: We welcome the decisions announced by the Cabinet last night (Thursday), a series of steps that will strengthen Jewish communities and governance in Judea and Samaria and shore up Israel’s stance against those who seek to harm the Jewish State.
Alongside approval of five Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, the measures announced by the Cabinet last night include the long-overdue decision to reclaim Israel’s responsibility for the Wye Accords-designated nature reserve.
The Wye Accords, the third of the three agreements that comprise the Oslo Accords framework, transferred responsibility for protection of the unique ecosystem of the Judean Desert to the hands of the Palestinian Authority. The territory transferred to PA control was designated as a no-construction zone, in order to protect the unique desert ecosystem and to ensure that Israel’s interest would not be threatened in this crucial strategic area – but before the ink dried on the agreement, the Palestinian Authority began wholesale violations. In short order, it became clear that a large city was being built in the nature reserve.
For too many years, Israeli governments have turned a blind eye to the massive construction, aided and abetted by foreign concerns, in the nature reserve. Regavim has been sounding the alarm for years, working in conjunction with the Gush Etzion and Har Hevron Regional Councils to alert the public and to spur our elected officials to act.
Today, at long last, the Israeli government has finally confronted this outrageous violation of international law in a decision that will prevent further environmental harm caused by the Palestinian Authority’s methodical program of land theft and annexation.
We welcome this decision, and hope that it is the first step in a larger Israeli reevaluation of the validity of the Oslo Accords, in light of the utter disregard for international law proudly and emphatically displayed in both words and actions by the Palestinian Authority.
We congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Smotrich, Minister of Defense Gallant and municipal leaders of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria for their leadership and for this important step toward restoring law and order to the region. We congratulate MK Yuli Edelstein, Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, for his untiring efforts to protect the nature reserve.
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One of the most talked-about topics in Israeli public discourse since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war is the collapse of what Israelis call “the conception,” the assumptions regarding the intentions, capabilities and willingness of the Palestinian people and its leadership to wage war. The paradigm that has shaped Israel’s military and political strategy for decades went up in smoke, blood and tears as the horrors of Oct. 7 unfolded.
Since that day, the discourse on “the day after” the war has been awash with statements by experts, real and imagined — every current or past politician, every military has-been, every pundit, every analyst, every taxi driver and talk-show host — on the need to uproot the failed paradigm and correct the wishful thinking vis-à-vis Hamas and the Gaza Strip that led to the massacre along Israel’s southern border.
Unfortunately, the very same paradigm is alive and well when it comes to Judea and Samaria, particularly regarding the day after the war and the feasibility of handing control of the entirety of the disputed territories — Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — to the Palestinian Authority.
The most excruciating evidence of enduring wishful thinking was brought into focus by a recently-published report by the Regavim Movement, titled “Officers by Day, Terrorists by Night,” which exposes the Palestinian Authority’s involvement in acts of terrorism perpetrated against Israeli citizens and soldiers.
The PA’s ongoing and ever-expanding payroll of terrorists is perhaps the most infamous aspect of its shameless support for terrorism, but it is far from the only one. Aside from being a violation of the very core of the Oslo framework and a betrayal of the PA’s mandate, this brazen support for murder makes US support for the PA illegal, as per the Taylor Force Act (H.R. 1164, S. 1697), passed by Congress in 2018 with the express purpose of conditioning all US aid to the PA on it ending its “pay-for-slay” policy.
In an Orwellian masterstroke, this week PA representatives are in Washington, D.C., working with administration officials to “redefine” the flow of funds in order to circumvent the Taylor Force Act. Payments to the families of eliminated terrorists are to be categorized as “support for Palestinian families in crisis.” The incentivization of terrorism will continue, but will be recast as humanitarian aid.
As if that weren’t bad enough, “Officers by Day, Terrorists by Night” exposes another level of institutional terrorism in the PA, detailing acts of terrorism committed by those already on the PA payroll. Members of official branches of the Palestinian security framework play a dual role; on the one hand, they serve in the policing and security entities tasked with prevention and eradication of Palestinian terrorism, while at the same time, many of these same officers are themselves perpetrators of unspeakable acts of terrorism against Israeli civilians and security forces.
The report’s findings have been reinforced in the two weeks since its publication, as PA Security Force officers have carried out additional terrorist attacks — including machine-gunning a school bus full of children, shooting up a vehicle and wounding two far-left “peace activists” and, in another incident, evading a five-hour Israel Defense Forces manhunt after wounding seven Israeli civilians.
Although senior Fatah and PASF officials have already made it very clear that members of all branches of the Palestinian security system are actively involved in the struggle against “the occupation,” and take great pride in the large and growing number of “martyrs” and prisoners from among their ranks, key members of Israel’s political and military decision-making elite refuse to so much as entertain the possibility that the PA may turn its guns on Israel in the foreseeable future. Let alone admitting that this is not only the current reality, but has been the case since the moment the PA and its security apparatus were created under the Oslo Accords.
The notion that on the day after the war the very same Palestinian “security mechanisms,” which are actually terrorist mechanisms, will bear responsibility for Judea and Samaria, as well as for the Gaza Strip, is the definition of insanity. The PA and its “security” mechanisms see themselves as the executive arm of the jihad, entrusted with the dual mission of conquering Israel and eradicating the Jewish people. The unequivocal words, the murderous actions and the pay-for-slay policies of the PA leave no room for doubt or denial.
To believe any statement to the contrary, made in service of any other interest or by any other “authority,” is tantamount to burying one’s head in the sand, and poses an existential threat to the State of Israel and to the moral underpinnings of peace-loving democratic societies worldwide.
