We forgot too fast. We moved on too quickly.
Three lives were taken last Friday, and we returned to normalcy way too soon. Two children with blue eyes, golden hair and innocent smiles, who are no longer. Two brothers whose family is now broken, and whose father is still hospitalized fighting for his life. And another young man who left behind a young widow, a home and a family who had just begun to build.
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Three souls were murdered in the terror attack, and we were shocked and moved right on. We went back to the fight against the legal reform, the demonstrations, the noise, the campaigns. Yes, I did too. This is why it's so important for me to write about this now, rather than about the judicial reform.
Precisely from this place of support for the legislation, from this place of knowing that this is the right move, that it is necessary for terrorism and governance, one needs to look up and see what happened here. And when I look up, I see the terror wave returning. I see east Jerusalem burning.
I see 13- and 15-year-old Palestinians go out to attack, shoot and kill innocent Israelis. Children who are murderers, influenced by social media and their education, with the fire of terrorism guiding their steps.
The terrorist who killed 8-year-old Asher and 6-year-old Yaakov Paley himself was a father, including of a newborn baby girl. This subhuman saw children standing at a bus stop and accelerated and steered toward them to kill them just because they were Jewish.
A subhuman, a member of a community that distributed candies and created caricatures of the murdered. Celebrations were in full swing in the Gaza Strip, Jenin, east Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem. This is what they laud: the murder of children.
The security system and the media keep talking about "lone terrorism," perhaps as an excuse as to why they were unable to prevent the tragedy. Let's make one thing clear: such threats are never accidental, but are the result of social and religious circumstances.
If this can be stopped by increasing pressure on the terrorists, arresting inciters and clerics who preach violence – then so be it.
Let's recruit the security, legal and economic systems to show this society that while murder may make one a "martyr," they will be leaving behind a minefield of problems for their families.
A legal reform is warranted to fight terrorist, and we cannot wait. We must not wait, but get to work, because Palestinian terrorism is exacting way too heavy a price.
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