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Wednesday’s
double terror bombing in Jerusalem sent shock waves throughout the State of
Israel because it was a different style of attack than the one Israelis have,
sadly, grown accustomed to seeing since March this year, when the latest
escalation began.
Unlike
the individual or small groups of terrorists who, acting on radical ideology
and incitement to violence, picked up a gun, a knife, or embarked on a
car-ramming attack, this time a better organized terrorist cell detonated two
bombs—apparently by remote control—at bus stops in the capital.
Police
and the Shin Bet have exhausted their immediate physical searches, and the hunt
for the perpetrators will now move to the intelligence front.
Meanwhile,
security personnel will be working around the clock to prevent the next
bombing, scanning buses and bus stops in the city and trying to figure out how
terrorists were able to make their way to western Jerusalem.
It
is too soon to know who or which organization conducted the attack, but it is
possible to note that in recent years, the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP) has taken a lead in remote-control bombing terrorism.
Col.
(res.). Michael Milshtein, a former adviser on Palestinian affairs to the
Israeli Defence Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the
Territories (COGAT) unit and a former head of the Department for Palestinians
Affairs in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate, said during a call
organized by Media Central that despite the fact that the Second Intifada (2000-2005)
saw many more attacks and casualties, “this time we and the Palestinians are
much more concerned about the results of this wave of escalation—this is a
result of the fact that this wave of escalation reflects deeper developments in
the Palestinian arena and in the relations between Israel and the
Palestinians.”
Milstein
pointed to the “rise of the Z generation in the Palestinian arena, the young
generation,” which he noted has been behind “most of the terrorism in the
Samaria area, in Nablus and Jenin. Groups of younger Palestinians, most of them
born around the year 2000. Most of them have no relations with the P.A.
[Palestinian Authority] or even Fatah. Most feel deep alienation towards the
P.A.,” he said.
With
the Palestinian Authority losing its grip in parts of Samaria to armed terror
gangs, and the image of the P.A. at an all-time low among Palestinians, in no
small part due to corruption, nepotism and its violation of human rights,
Milstein said, the current situation does not look promising.
Israel
has a broad set of military measures it can call upon to confront terrorism,
but one tool that it has also relied upon for the past 15 years to boost
stability—economic easements for Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria,
commonly known in the West Bank, seems to be losing its effectiveness.
All
this amounts to a continued deterioration of the security situation. Although
the resilience of the Israeli people and the great capabilities of the Israeli
security forces will continue to provide a resolute response to terrorism,
challenging times could lie ahead.
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