Needed: A Cure for Blindness

A few days ago, Central Command General Avi Bluth, submitted his request allowing 15,000 Arabs from Judea and Samaria entrance to work in Israel.

A very similar request to that of the Southern Command, to allow thousands of Gazans into Israel to work.

Then we bumped into October 7.

I personally know Avi Bluth. He was military commander of the Judean Brigade, which included Hebron.

Later, as commander of forces in Judea and the, he led major military operations against terror forces, primarily located in cities in Samaria, such as Shechem, Tul Karem, and others.

But know, as one of the top 5 officers in the IDF, has reverted back to the Oct 6 conception, which claimed, ‘give them work and they’ll behave themselves, posing no threat to Israelis.

Except that this belief has been disproved so many times. Oslo, Gush Katif, the withdrawal from Lebanon, October 7. And again last night, when 3 bombs exploded on buses in Bat Yam, miraculously empty buses, as well as two other bombs discovered before they blew up.

We could easily have woken up to hundreds dead and wounded this morning.

So, who provided the intelligence information to Avi Bluth, that 15,000 Arabs from Yosh would pose very little danger to Jews in Israel? And did Avi Bluth challenge this estimation, or blindly accept it?

Netanyahu continues, in almost every speech or declaration, to exclaim that October 7 can never be able to happen again. But this is lip service. Anyone with eyes in his head can see the threat from Judea and Samaria to Israel. Last night was a preview, a kind of miniature golf, prior to the tournament. If Israel does not begin to reject the popular but failed conceptions and eradicate the roots of Arab terror, October 7 will be remembered as the first in a series of catastrophes that ‘caught us by surprise.’ G-d forbid.

Then Colonel Avi Bluth with Rabbi Dov Lior and then transportation minister Yisrael Katz at Maarat HaMachpela in 2013. Today Bluth, a full general is commander of the Central region and Katz is Defense Minister. (David Wilder)