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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Weekly Commentary: Watershed event? Netanyahu's "Zionist response" to terror

Weekly Commentary: Watershed event? Netanyahu's "Zionist response" to terror
Dr. Aaron Lerner 13 December 2018

There were no surprises in the first section of PM/DM Netanyahu's press
release:
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PM and DM Netanyahu Holds Security Consultations
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this afternoon
(Thursday, 13 December 2018), held security assessments and consultations
and ordered:

- Accelerated demolition of terrorists' homes (to start within 48 hours);
- Continued efforts to apprehend the murderers and dismantle the
infrastructures from which they set out;
- Increased administrative detention of Hamas militants in Judea and
Samaria;
- Reinforcement of IDF units in Judea and Samaria;
- Reinforcement of protection along roads and placement of checkpoints on
roads in Judea and Samaria; and
- Placing a cordon around El-Bireh and revoking permits of family members of
terrorists and their accomplices.
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But then there was this dramatic addition:

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Prime Minister Netanyahu also decided this evening to legalize thousands of
homes in communities in Judea and Samaria that were built in good faith and
which have yet to be legalized, some for decades.

The foregoing will enable thousands of residents to have public, educational
and religious structures, the construction of which has not been possible
for decades.

Prime Minister Netanyahu requested that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit
take legal steps to facilitate the construction of 82 new residential units
in Ofra.

Prime Minister is also advancing the construction of two new industrial
zones, near Avnei Hefetz and Betar Ilit.

Prime Minister Netanyahu: "They think they can uproot us from our land. They
will not succeed."
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Does this mark a return to the long abandoned "Zionist response" to terror?

We will see in the coming days and weeks if the action described above is
substantive.

With elections being held some time in 2019, Prime Minister Netanyahu should
be well aware that if the announcement is only talk that it could ultimately
serve to alienate important elements in his base.

This especially when Prime Minister Netanyahu can't have his defense minster
blamed for foot dragging.

With patience, the return to the "Zionist response to terror" may turn out
to have a deterrent effect far greater than any punishment for terror.

After all, a demolished terrorist's home can be rebuilt.

But the Jewish homes built in response to an act of terror will serve as a
permanent reminder to the Palestinians of the "cost" of terror.
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