Jack Engelhard
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Two Israelis, young, religious, vibrant, robust, are no longer with us. They took the wrong road, although there is no other road, and ended up in the wrong town, Huwara.

In Israel, that can be fatal, and was, for 22-year-old Hillel Menachem Yaniv, and 20-year-old Yagel Yaacov Yaniv.

They were brothers. They were hesder army Yeshivah students and they were murdered in cold blood by Palestinian Arab terrorists, in that town without pity.

We hear King David lamenting through his Psalms --

“And though, O Lord, how much longer?” Or…ad matai…” when will it be over?”

That has been a question going back for all that time, and it haunts to this day, and to the date Oct. 12, 2000, upon the hazards of making a wrong turn.

You have to wonder why, after winning all these wars, there are still all these Arab NO-GO-ZONES in the Jewish Land of Israel.

Leave it to Sweden, France, and Norway to surrender their sovereignty for the sake of diversity, all of them soon to be outnumbered by belligerent migrants.

Too often, in Israel, the IDF has to go in to “take out the garbage.”

There is, then, already a “two-state-solution,” a state within a state when Israelis must zig zag around terrorist encampments.

In and around they exist, village by village, hostile through and through.

One wrong turn and you’ve left civilization and have entered a jungle…with no way out.

Flashback to 2000, when the town without pity was Ramallah, and it was there that Israeli reservists Vadim Norzdich and Yosef Avrahami blundered in by accident, then taken to a nearby police station, where they expected safety, but were instead hacked to death, lynched, their remains tossed out, medieval-style, to the lusting crowds. Chapter 22 here has it all.

Those were the days of wild concessions, namely, but not exclusively, through Ehud Barak, and when, earlier, Rabin, Peres, Beilin et al, marched in solidarity with Arafat as Arafat’s PLO were engaged in a murder spree against Israeli civilians. That did not deter those Israeli leaders from positioning Arafat as a “peace partner.”

Regardless the number of kills his men chalked up by day, by week, by month.

Those Jewish victims, to their lights, were “sacrifices for peace.”

Those Leftists sold, or tried to sell, that bill of goods to the Israeli people. Upon the proposition that one more land swap, or prisoner swap, and peace in our time was right there over the horizon. After all, Arafat made promises, didn’t he? Guaranteed with a handshake, pictured and celebrated worldwide. Topped off with a Nobel Prize.

For Peace!

These days it’s Mahmoud Abbas. He continues to incite and his PA schools still teach the heavenly glories of murdering Jews.

No Israeli government, left, right, has yet to put a stop to this.

Why not? The Leftists will holler, as they holler against judicial reform? Let them scream, until the cows come home.

Abbas’ pay to slay system is still operational, despite his funds being curtailed for this barbaric enterprise.

No worries for him. If Israel denies him some millions in tax dollars, he can count on the rest of the world, including the United States under Biden, to replenish the shortfall.

Count on Biden’s State Department, and the European Union, and the UN, to cast judgmental eyes upon the Netanyahu government.

Don’t you dare take harsh steps to send a message that terrorism …13 murders within the last 10 days…will be tolerated no more. (Today, another murder reported.)

Harsh steps, yes, yes, yes, and, taking out the garbage which is the town of Huwara, would be a start.

New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.

He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here; [email protected]