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Global Outrage for Israeli MK Standing Up to Terrorism
Did you hear the latest manufactured scandal from today about MK Tzvi Sukkot destroying a Palestinian Authority monument that glorifies a terrorist? Of course he did the right thing. The manufactured outrage only exposes the absolute moral inversion we are facing, and the need for a much stronger leadership.
Following Sukkot’s activity this morning in the village, alongside voices of support for the move, there was also criticism that this is the IDF’s responsibility. However, as reported by journalist Elhanan Gruner, he informed the IDF about this terrorist-celebrating monument at the beginning of July after ice cream was distributed to the village children in memory of the terrorist Yaman Faraj, who carried out numerous attacks. The commander of the Judea and Samaria Division initially promised he would take care of it, but after several days the IDF Spokesperson claimed they could not find the monument, when in reality they did not bother to search or ask the forces on the ground. Meanwhile, the forces on the ground had located it and were even pleading for permission to destroy it.
Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized MK Tzvi Sukkot for destroying the Palestinian Authority terror-celebrating monument. He said the MK took the law into his own hands.
“The IDF is the sovereign authority in Judea and Samaria and is responsible for implementing the decisions of the political echelon. Taking the law into one’s own hands, particularly by public officials, is unacceptable and prevents the IDF from focusing on its missions against terrorism and incitement,” Netanyahu stated.
Netanyahu's response is precisely the problem.
Netanyahu should have told the world the opposite. He should have said: “You are upset about a monument celebrating a terrorist? You should be upset at the daily terror attacks against us, and at how the Palestinian Authority uses international funding to pay terrorists in jail and their families according to how many Jews they kill. Of course we will destroy these monuments. This is not a technical implementation-of-law issue. This is a 'getting rid of evil' issue. Civilians who tear down monuments that glorify the murder of Jews are not the problem. I am only sorry the army did not get there first. We will make sure the IDF immediately destroys every monument in Judea and Samaria that celebrates terrorists.”
That is the leadership humanity needs, not just Israel.
When our jihadi enemies see their terror monuments left standing, they correctly read it as Israeli hesitation. When they see the Prime Minister more focused on criticizing a Jewish MK for removing a symbol of Jew-hatred than on the existence of that symbol itself, they feel empowered. That is why Palestinian Authority policemen recently entered an area of Judea and Samaria forbidden to them, detained an Israeli, and took his gun. They sensed the same softness, and they still have not been punished!
Former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani understood the principle in New York: ignore the small, visible signals of disorder and you invite the large ones. Terror monuments are the broken windows of this conflict. Leaving them intact tells the other side that the old rules still apply. Destroying them tells them the rules have changed. MK Sukkot destroying this terror-glorifying monument will not incite more terror. What does incite more terror is leaving it standing, and treating his act as if it were the problem. We must stop thinking like Westerners and start acting in the only language our enemies understand.
In his book "I Called it Jihad", Israeli journalist Tzvi Yehezkeli records a U.S. officer in Iraq being told by a Muslim tribal leader the local grammar of victory: when they win, they rape the women, kill the men, expel the survivors, and take the land. We will never act like them. We are not barbarians like Mohammad and his jihadi followers. But the minimum required for them to understand, in their own language, is this: the answer to their evil terror against us, especially the atrocities of October 7, must be that they internalize defeat. They must lose land and be expelled. When that does not happen, they correctly conclude that the cost of October 7 was temporary.
Three years after the massacre, Gaza has still not been fully taken, the jihadi population has not been expelled, and Jewish communities have not been reestablished there. The monuments to terrorists still stand in Judea and Samaria. Our enemies notice both facts. Every day those symbols remain is another day they conclude that Israel fears international condemnation more than it fears the next attack.
The younger generation that fought this war already understands the difference between legalistic caution and moral clarity. They saw what happens when the enemy believes time is on its side. The question is whether the leadership will catch up to that clarity or continue managing the conflict as if the old illusions still hold.
Destroy the monuments. Make the loss of land permanent. Every jihadi in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and those holding Israeli citizenship must be relocated to countries that support and enable jihad, not here.
We must speak in the language they understand. Everything else is commentary that our dead can no longer afford.
We are in a wake-up process. We are facing an evil that too many people still refuse to call by its name. Jihadi Islam is evil.
Too many still refuse to even label the Palestinian Authority an enemy, and still will not admit that the entire cause called “Palestine” is fundamentally about killing Jews, destroying Israel, and serving as the main catalyst for the growing Jew-hating antisemitism spreading across the world today.
Join me at the Pulse of Israel in sharing these truths so more people open their eyes as quickly as possible, before the growing, emboldened jihad that senses our weakness continues to kill more. They do not care how many of their women or children were killed, or how many of their homes or cities were destroyed in Gaza. They see that we are still talking with the international community about rebuilding Gaza, and they are laughing at how easily they can exploit our Western-oriented mindset while they continue to plan their next genocidal terror attacks against us.
We will overcome. Obviously, the sooner more of us wake up, the more lives we will be able to save.
Strengthen your faith in Hashem. He is waiting for us to wake up, start acting like Jews again, fulfill our mission to spread good and remove evil from His Holy Land, and stop thinking and acting like Westerners.
We got this!
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
