Pinchas Wallerstein, head of the Binyamin Regional Council in which the murder took place, told Arutz-7 today,
"The statistics of terrorist murders here in our region are simply terrible... All the attacks here are not by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but rather emanate from the Mukata, Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. A certain specific cell of terrorists is responsible for all the recent murders - that of Tzvi Goldstein, Ettie G'alyah, Tzion David, Gideon Lichterman, Idit Mizrachi, and others. Each of them was killed in the same way: A professional team ambushes them in a roadside shooting. These terrorists may have even been trained by the IDF or the CIA for all we know. We read in the weekly Torah portion yesterday about a corpse that is found between two cities [and who is responsible]. The Middle Ages commentator Ibn Ezra says that this is referring to safety on the roads... I truly feel that neither I nor the government can say, as the Torah commands, 'our hands did not spill this blood.'
"We have to understand that in this situation, it is wrong of us to try to extract the murderers from amidst the population in some sort of tweezers exercise. We must realize that the people of the Arab village Mugharer who gave these murderers shelter are all worthy of death; the entire Arab population, whether it is in Israel or the PA areas, if it gives support to these murderers either tacitly or actively or by expressing joy at their crimes - all of them are worthy of death. This is the proper approach, and not precise surgical procedures to find the exact murderers."
Wallerstein had another proposal to deter the Arab murderers:
"We know the only thing that really threatens the Arabs. If the government had the strength, it would tell the Arabs, 'For every attack, we take another 1,000 dunams (250 acres) for Jewish settlement.' This would frighten them, and would strengthen our hold on the land. If a wonderful boy like Har-Melekh and his wife Limor decided that what was needed is to populate this region, then the people of Tel Aviv and Holon and Bat Yam, and the larger communities in Yesha, should realize that this was their legacy to them and that this is what has to be done. Our connection with the Land will be determined by the Jews coming to live here. True, it's dangerous, and some of us have in fact paid a high price, and it requires great strength - but this very fact is what obligates us ten-fold."
"The statistics of terrorist murders here in our region are simply terrible... All the attacks here are not by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but rather emanate from the Mukata, Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. A certain specific cell of terrorists is responsible for all the recent murders - that of Tzvi Goldstein, Ettie G'alyah, Tzion David, Gideon Lichterman, Idit Mizrachi, and others. Each of them was killed in the same way: A professional team ambushes them in a roadside shooting. These terrorists may have even been trained by the IDF or the CIA for all we know. We read in the weekly Torah portion yesterday about a corpse that is found between two cities [and who is responsible]. The Middle Ages commentator Ibn Ezra says that this is referring to safety on the roads... I truly feel that neither I nor the government can say, as the Torah commands, 'our hands did not spill this blood.'
"We have to understand that in this situation, it is wrong of us to try to extract the murderers from amidst the population in some sort of tweezers exercise. We must realize that the people of the Arab village Mugharer who gave these murderers shelter are all worthy of death; the entire Arab population, whether it is in Israel or the PA areas, if it gives support to these murderers either tacitly or actively or by expressing joy at their crimes - all of them are worthy of death. This is the proper approach, and not precise surgical procedures to find the exact murderers."
Wallerstein had another proposal to deter the Arab murderers:
"We know the only thing that really threatens the Arabs. If the government had the strength, it would tell the Arabs, 'For every attack, we take another 1,000 dunams (250 acres) for Jewish settlement.' This would frighten them, and would strengthen our hold on the land. If a wonderful boy like Har-Melekh and his wife Limor decided that what was needed is to populate this region, then the people of Tel Aviv and Holon and Bat Yam, and the larger communities in Yesha, should realize that this was their legacy to them and that this is what has to be done. Our connection with the Land will be determined by the Jews coming to live here. True, it's dangerous, and some of us have in fact paid a high price, and it requires great strength - but this very fact is what obligates us ten-fold."