A Palestinian Attack Will Flow Down The Entire West Bank Periphery,
Uniting with troops of 10 horn armies pushing south along Both Sides
On the Low Flat surface of the Galilee And Samarian Mountain Ranges.
It Is Likely the Attack Shall Begin After President Obama Leaves Office.
December 29, 2013
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Ezekiel 38:8,9 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and THEY SHALL DWELL SAFELY ALL OF THEM. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come LIKE A STORM, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Daniel 11:41 – He shall enter also into THE GLORIOUS LAND, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these SHALL ESCAPE out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Begin Excerpt from Ynet News
IDF fighting new brand of Palestinian terror
Four Givati Brigade commanders highlight ‘lone wolf’ attacks, say Palestinians have stake in maintaining relative calm
Yoav Zitun
December 28, 2013
As opposed to the success of Israeli security forces in thwarting – on a nightly basis – significant attacks on citizens by terror organizations, the IDF and Shin Bet is struggling to identify Palestinians with no criminal affiliation who spontaneously choose to attack Israelis
The Israeli security establishment has been attempting to deal with the populist terror surge in the West Bank, characterized by lone wolf terrorists who, for the most part, do not belong to a terrorist organization.
The men tasked with dealing with the phenomenon on the ground: four battalion commanders from Givati Brigade, who have recently finished long-term operations in several sectors of the West Bank (Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, and south Mt. Hebron).
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In an interview to Ynet, the four say that “the solution to the phenomenon is attack and deter operations.”
In the background of the peace talks and the wave of terror attacks which accompanied the process – and with the possibility for severe escalation around the corner – the four battalion commanders insist that the Palestinians have a stake in maintaining the relative peace.
“They have much to lose,” said Tzabar battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Liran Hajbi, who was responsible for the Ramallah sector. “Ramallah is blooming with hotels and shops, and businessman and diplomats are flocking to the city. Every new checkpoint hurts them tremendously.”
Still, there was a security incident in Ramallah while Lt. Col. Hajbi’s brigade was operating in the area, when a girl from the Psagot settlement was attacked by a Palestinian.
“We need to eliminate the motivation for these attacks,” he said. “We can do this through aggressive disruption operations that’ll create a deterrent… what we do in Jenin is felt in Hebron.”
Rotem battalion commander, Lt. Col. Dani Oaken, was responsible for the Hebron sector: “There is no profile for a lone world terrorist; you don’t know who he is. It could be a female without a history of terror.”
The defense establishment has yet to discover the identity of the gunman who killed Staff Sergeant Gal Kobi, a subordinate of Oaken, who was shot dead near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. “We executed a wave of arrests after the attack,” he said, “But we still don’t have a significant lead.”
Despite that setback, the Givati Brigade has had one major success. As first revealed by Ynet, Lt. Col. Hajbi’s troops exposed advanced preparations by a well-funded terror cell which intended to kidnap an Israeli soldier.
During the course of the arrest of a wanted man in the Ramallah area, the IDF discovered an underground tunnel near his home, in which the cell’s members intended to hold an Israeli hostage.
The commander of Sayeret Givati Reconnaissance Battalion, Lt. Col. Eli Gino, has been forced to deal with a different phenomenon – permit-less Palestinians which have been moving in droves from south Mt. Hebron to the Beersheba and Lachish regions.
In an exceptional step, the Judea and Samaria Division decided to post the brigade’s special units in the area to deal with the phenomenon, which has cost , in other regions, the lives of soldiers Tomer Hazan and Eden Atias in two attacks committed by permit-less Palestinians.
“Some 6,000 permit-less Palestinians work (in the area) per month, and they do it because they need the work,” explained Lt. Col. Gino. “A permit-less Palestinian we pick up is transferred to the police but he will be arrested only after the third time. Six or seven times we have shot at the legs of permit-less Palestinians who were destroying the security barrier.”
“There are parts of the security fence that have been broken and remain without repairs despite our requests. It appears it’s not a priority. Our area of operations is 30 km (18.6 miles), and for part of our operations we rely on drones.”
According to Lt. Col. Gino, in-depth operations to minimize the phenomenon have led to the arrests of transport contractors and Palestinian human resources companies, which have turned the trend into an industry: “The fundamental solution could be the dispensation of work permits or the institutionalization of the legal process against them”
Another trend which has diminished in recent months but still caused headaches for the security establishment is ‘price-tag’ vandalism. There was no patience for those kinds of events, according to Givati’s battalion commanders. “The mission was to protect the Jewish and Arab population,” said Lt. Col. Oaken.
Lt. Col. Hajbi added: “The formula for dealing with the phenomenon entails the provision of a feeling of safety for both sides.”
Shaked battalion commander, Lt. Col. Yehuda Vach, who was responsible for the Nablus region which included the Yitzhar settlement, claimed: “There are nationalistically motivated events, but they are marginal. We do not give them a pass. Whoever calls this ‘price tag’ and not nationalist crime is wearing blinders.”
He added, “We have a clear understanding that the law also protects Palestinians. Just as we arrested 30 Palestinians for throwing Molotov cocktails at settlers’ homes, we do not shy away from taking a stand against bullying by the other side.”
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