Islamic Jihad: Security Fence Stifling Terror Activities

Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah has revealed in an interview to Hizballah's Al-Manar Television that Israel’s security fence is a significant obstacle to the Palestinian terrorist organizations.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports

He asserted that suicide bombing attacks are the Palestinian people’s “strategic choice” and are meant to “create a balance of force and deterrence” in the campaign against a superior enemy. Shalah said the terrorist organizations have every intention of continuing suicide bombing attacks, but that their timing and the possibility of perpetrating them from the West Bank depends on other factors. “For example,” he said, “there is the separation fence, which is an obstacle to the resistance, and if it were not there the situation would be entirely different.” The last few years have witnessed a constant decrease in the number of suicide bombing attacks. This is the result of a number of factors, including the ongoing construction of the security fence, which hinders attempts by the terrorist organizations to infiltrate suicide bombers into Israel -- although they continue to search for the fence’s weak spots.

It's a pity that most of the local media repeatedly fail to view the barrier as a last ditch measure to prevent Israelis from being systematically murdered - a non-lethal defence mechanism that has produced a significant reduction in succesful terrorist attacks. In South Africa minds seem to have snapped shut on this issue. The language of the terrorists is adopted - its a separation/apartheid wall and that's that.

Mind you...whilst the majority of the local intelligentsia refers to it as an apartheid wall, the Islamic Jihad leader seems to have described as a fence.

Comments

[Gary]

Make no mistake. opponents of the fence know that the purpose of the fence is to stop Jews being butchered and that is why they oppose it.
They want the fence pulled down so that Arab terrorists can get into Israel to murder Jewish men , women and children!

[South Africa]

It's similar to the electric fence that apartheid South Africa set up to keep the Mozambicans out.

[Krishna109]

India is also building a security barrier-- and for the same reason-- to keep out Islamic terrorists.