Stop the Immoral Rules of Engagement
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Before Shabbat, a group of Israeli Jews who regularly hike around Judea & Samaria, families, kids, hikers of all ages, were attacked while hiking near Havat Gilad by a group of Arab jihadis from the neighboring village of Tell. The civilian in charge of security at Chavat Gilad heard about the incident and ran down to protect the Jewish hikers, trying desperately not to shoot. Instead used his rifle as a club to push the attackers back. The Muslim sheikh from the village grabbed the gun and shot, within seconds he murdered two Jews.
The videos are clear. Our people did everything humanly possible to avoid using lethal force. The second the jihadi Sheikh had the gun, he used it to kill.
And what was the immediate response from large parts of the Israeli left and their media allies? Warnings about “settler violence”. No sympathy for fellow Jews, under attack, killed. Just the same reflexive, dishonest, hateful script towards their fellow Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Israeli journalist Amit Segal, called out the lie in his reporting last night. The footage destroys the narrative. Jews restrained themselves. The jihadis did not.
This is the grim reality we face: a jihadi enemy that murders us, combined with an internal hatred that demonizes our own people and empowers our genocidal enemies — even after the tragic wake-up call of October 7.
The result of Friday’s attack is not an isolated tragedy. It is the direct outcome of a rotten legal policy that has been poisoning our security forces for years.
Our soldiers, officers, civilian security coordinators, and civilians are terrified to use their weapons. Not because they lack courage, they have proven that over and over, but because they know the legal system will come after them. The restrictive rules of engagement written by IDF legal advisors, and the post-Elor Azaria climate of fear, have turned self-defense into a potential career-ending crime, for soldiers and civilians. Anytime a Jew uses a gun to stop a terrorist, the legal system immediately confiscates his weapon and investigates him under the automatic assumption that he was in the wrong.
This is a disgrace that must end.
Remember Elor Azaria. He was an IDF soldier in Hebron who shot a terrorist who had already been stopped from murdering Israelis. He feared the terrorist on the ground was moving to detonate a suicide bomb, and shot himagain. For that he was court-martialed, convicted, and sent to prison for “manslaughter”. An IDF soldier making a split-second decision to save lives, was hounded and punished by the legal system and mainstream media for doing what he was trained to do. The message was received loud and clear: better a dead Jew than a soldier who risks the wrath of the Military Advocate General.
Listen to what our own fighters are saying right now from the ground:
A combat reservist describes a night pursuit deep inside a hostile jihadist village in Samaria. The suspect threw what looked like an explosive charge. The soldier fired two rounds and neutralized him on the spot. No commendation. Instead: investigation by the Military Police, and dismissal from his battalion. “They send us into battle and then dissect and judge every finger you moved from an air-conditioned office and punish you. This criminal conduct by the IDF simply freezes the fighters in the field from acting, and brings disasters like these upon us.”
Another fighter who recently served in the sector responsible for the village of Tell (from which the recent attack came) describes the same broken reality: entering the Tell village means rocks from rooftops, armed men, and a Palestinian Authority police station. To enter at all, the IDF company commander needs high-level approval, and even then is limited to stun grenades, as if dealing with disorderly demonstrators rather than a murderous population.
One incident: soldiers enter a house in Tell after being pelted with stones from the roof. The homeowner jumps a soldier. Another soldier strikes him and wounds him in the head. Minutes later the report comes down from above in the IDF: Stop. a soldier injured a ‘Palestinian Authority policeman’. That “policeman” had just attacked an IDF soldier.
Another: at a checkpoint, an IDF Civil Administration officer warns that in five minutes a convoy of 70 armed Palestinian policemen with 70 Kalashnikovs will pass under Israeli approval near Yitzhar. “Don’t photograph them.” A full company of PA forces moving freely near Israeli communities with the IDF’s permission.
And the only thing that makes the entire the army jittery? When Jews from Yitzhar go down to the road. Suddenly “settler violence” is the greatest threat.
This is the Oct. 6 conception still at its peak in IDF senior command: treating a jihadi population as a friendly civilian population that just happens to produce the occasional “individual” terrorist. It is the same conception that failed us in Gaza on October 7.
The army must change the rules of engagement. Immediately. The jihadi population in Judea & Samaria is exactly the same jihadi population in Gaza. Arab surveys post Oct. 7 highlight how the majority of the population in Judea & Samaria support the Oct. 7 massacre and mass rape.
The IDF must treat the enemy population as what it is, an enemy. The same ideology that produced Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the October 7 massacre is the dominant ideology among those who call themselves Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority armed police force. It is a 1,400-year-old jihadi worldview that still has Muslims around the world chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahud”, celebrating Mohammad’s massacre of Jews back in the year 628 CE! There are individuals who reject terror. They exist. But the population as a whole is not “our partner.” It is a jihadi sea in which the terrorists swim.
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Boaz Bismuth has already sent an urgent letter to the IDF Chief of Staff demanding a change in open-fire regulations: “It is unacceptable that a fighter fears the military prosecutor more than he fears the terrorist.”
MK Amit Halevi put it plainly: “the videos of yesterday’s murders tell the whole story. Reckless directives from senior IDF command and the Military Advocate General cause soldiers and officers to refrain from effectively defending our citizens. The military prosecution was created to protect IDF soldiers, not to abandon them to the enemy’s fire.”
“Defense Minister Israel Katz must instruct Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to change the field guidelines at once: meaningful security zones around every soldier and civilian, fire to neutralize threats from distance, and proactive operations against both the civilian and military infrastructures of terror.”
Until this changes, more Jews will die. Not because our people lack bravery, but because the system has taught them that using their weapons to stay alive and keep others alive is more dangerous to their future than the terrorist in front of them.
The blood of Benaya Malat and his fellow victim is on the hands of those who created and maintain this fear.
Jewish life is not cheaper than the comfort of legal advisors or the political narratives of the left. The army’s job is to protect Jews, and to deter the enemy, not to manage the feelings of an enemy population that raises its children on the dream of our destruction.
Change the rules. Treat the enemy as the enemy. Or prepare for more funerals and more dishonest headlines blaming the victims.
Our soldiers who fought bravely in Gaza cannot understand how that same enemy is treated with kid gloves in Judea and Samaria. Talk about confusion. We should not need another October 7-style massacre in Judea and Samaria before IDF command adjusts to finally deal with the enemy properly.
With it all the nation of Israel knows the enemy and spirits are high to continue building and strengthening our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland. Our future is bright. We will overcome. And praying for a proud, sane IDF policy that finally recognizes the whole population of “palestinian” jihadis as the enemy.
Strengthen your faith. We will overcome.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
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The videos are clear. Our people did everything humanly possible to avoid using lethal force. The second the jihadi Sheikh had the gun, he used it to kill.
And what was the immediate response from large parts of the Israeli left and their media allies? Warnings about “settler violence”. No sympathy for fellow Jews, under attack, killed. Just the same reflexive, dishonest, hateful script towards their fellow Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Israeli journalist Amit Segal, called out the lie in his reporting last night. The footage destroys the narrative. Jews restrained themselves. The jihadis did not.
This is the grim reality we face: a jihadi enemy that murders us, combined with an internal hatred that demonizes our own people and empowers our genocidal enemies — even after the tragic wake-up call of October 7.
The result of Friday’s attack is not an isolated tragedy. It is the direct outcome of a rotten legal policy that has been poisoning our security forces for years.
Our soldiers, officers, civilian security coordinators, and civilians are terrified to use their weapons. Not because they lack courage, they have proven that over and over, but because they know the legal system will come after them. The restrictive rules of engagement written by IDF legal advisors, and the post-Elor Azaria climate of fear, have turned self-defense into a potential career-ending crime, for soldiers and civilians. Anytime a Jew uses a gun to stop a terrorist, the legal system immediately confiscates his weapon and investigates him under the automatic assumption that he was in the wrong.
This is a disgrace that must end.
Remember Elor Azaria. He was an IDF soldier in Hebron who shot a terrorist who had already been stopped from murdering Israelis. He feared the terrorist on the ground was moving to detonate a suicide bomb, and shot himagain. For that he was court-martialed, convicted, and sent to prison for “manslaughter”. An IDF soldier making a split-second decision to save lives, was hounded and punished by the legal system and mainstream media for doing what he was trained to do. The message was received loud and clear: better a dead Jew than a soldier who risks the wrath of the Military Advocate General.
Listen to what our own fighters are saying right now from the ground:
A combat reservist describes a night pursuit deep inside a hostile jihadist village in Samaria. The suspect threw what looked like an explosive charge. The soldier fired two rounds and neutralized him on the spot. No commendation. Instead: investigation by the Military Police, and dismissal from his battalion. “They send us into battle and then dissect and judge every finger you moved from an air-conditioned office and punish you. This criminal conduct by the IDF simply freezes the fighters in the field from acting, and brings disasters like these upon us.”
Another fighter who recently served in the sector responsible for the village of Tell (from which the recent attack came) describes the same broken reality: entering the Tell village means rocks from rooftops, armed men, and a Palestinian Authority police station. To enter at all, the IDF company commander needs high-level approval, and even then is limited to stun grenades, as if dealing with disorderly demonstrators rather than a murderous population.
One incident: soldiers enter a house in Tell after being pelted with stones from the roof. The homeowner jumps a soldier. Another soldier strikes him and wounds him in the head. Minutes later the report comes down from above in the IDF: Stop. a soldier injured a ‘Palestinian Authority policeman’. That “policeman” had just attacked an IDF soldier.
Another: at a checkpoint, an IDF Civil Administration officer warns that in five minutes a convoy of 70 armed Palestinian policemen with 70 Kalashnikovs will pass under Israeli approval near Yitzhar. “Don’t photograph them.” A full company of PA forces moving freely near Israeli communities with the IDF’s permission.
And the only thing that makes the entire the army jittery? When Jews from Yitzhar go down to the road. Suddenly “settler violence” is the greatest threat.
This is the Oct. 6 conception still at its peak in IDF senior command: treating a jihadi population as a friendly civilian population that just happens to produce the occasional “individual” terrorist. It is the same conception that failed us in Gaza on October 7.
The army must change the rules of engagement. Immediately. The jihadi population in Judea & Samaria is exactly the same jihadi population in Gaza. Arab surveys post Oct. 7 highlight how the majority of the population in Judea & Samaria support the Oct. 7 massacre and mass rape.
The IDF must treat the enemy population as what it is, an enemy. The same ideology that produced Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the October 7 massacre is the dominant ideology among those who call themselves Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority armed police force. It is a 1,400-year-old jihadi worldview that still has Muslims around the world chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahud”, celebrating Mohammad’s massacre of Jews back in the year 628 CE! There are individuals who reject terror. They exist. But the population as a whole is not “our partner.” It is a jihadi sea in which the terrorists swim.
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Boaz Bismuth has already sent an urgent letter to the IDF Chief of Staff demanding a change in open-fire regulations: “It is unacceptable that a fighter fears the military prosecutor more than he fears the terrorist.”
MK Amit Halevi put it plainly: “the videos of yesterday’s murders tell the whole story. Reckless directives from senior IDF command and the Military Advocate General cause soldiers and officers to refrain from effectively defending our citizens. The military prosecution was created to protect IDF soldiers, not to abandon them to the enemy’s fire.”
“Defense Minister Israel Katz must instruct Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to change the field guidelines at once: meaningful security zones around every soldier and civilian, fire to neutralize threats from distance, and proactive operations against both the civilian and military infrastructures of terror.”
Until this changes, more Jews will die. Not because our people lack bravery, but because the system has taught them that using their weapons to stay alive and keep others alive is more dangerous to their future than the terrorist in front of them.
The blood of Benaya Malat and his fellow victim is on the hands of those who created and maintain this fear.
Jewish life is not cheaper than the comfort of legal advisors or the political narratives of the left. The army’s job is to protect Jews, and to deter the enemy, not to manage the feelings of an enemy population that raises its children on the dream of our destruction.
Change the rules. Treat the enemy as the enemy. Or prepare for more funerals and more dishonest headlines blaming the victims.
Our soldiers who fought bravely in Gaza cannot understand how that same enemy is treated with kid gloves in Judea and Samaria. Talk about confusion. We should not need another October 7-style massacre in Judea and Samaria before IDF command adjusts to finally deal with the enemy properly.
With it all the nation of Israel knows the enemy and spirits are high to continue building and strengthening our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland. Our future is bright. We will overcome. And praying for a proud, sane IDF policy that finally recognizes the whole population of “palestinian” jihadis as the enemy.
Strengthen your faith. We will overcome.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
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