Alexander Shulman

Israel is close to a victory over the Palestinian terror

... The leader of terrorist band was liquidated by the subdivision of the Special Force...
Helicopter attacked the group of terrorists... Palestinian extremist exploded in his own
motor vehicle.... Such news, became customary last years, are the result of invisible
exploit of thousands and thousands Israeli soldiers, policemen, intelligence officers,
who lead merciless war with the Palestinian terror.

Islamic extremists unleashed against the Jewish state the terrorist war, unprecedented in
the world history. Israeli army and special services accumulated in this war unique fight
experience. Sharp reduction in the terrorist activity of Palestinians became the result of
the successful actions of Israelis. The IDF headquarters noted the 30% decrease in the
terrorist activity of Palestinians in 2003, and the number of terrorist attacks fell by 75
more percent in the first half of 2004. About 2000 Palestinians were arrested on the
suspicion of the participation in the terror and 103 terrorist acts and diversions were
avoided in Judea, Samaria and in the Jordan Valley only during the recent six months.
In addition to this, security forces render innocuous 58 potential suicide terrorists.

This effectiveness of fight with the terror became possible because of the wide use of
unique technologies and methods of detection and liquidation of terrorists by Israelis.
Israeli intelligence services, which widely use both the technical equipment, and
branched network of their agents among the medium Palestinians, bear basic load in
this difficult matter. About the scales by this secret of war testify commanding Israeli
frontier troops General David Tsur's words: "we achieved such successes in
intelligence, about which no one even suspects".

The profound knowledge of public device and psychology of Palestinians is the

guarantee of the success of the work of Israeli intelligence officers. 4-5 percent of
Palestinian autonomy population directly participates in the terror, according to Avi
Dikhter, the chief of the Israeli GSS, opinion. Palestinian society itself is not united, by
no means. It consists of the the ancestral clans (khamul), continuously quarrelling
between themselves. Israeli intelligence officers with the recruiting of their secret
service agency from the number of Palestinians consider all these factors. Facts by
secret to war with the terror rarely fall on the pages of newspapers; however, on them it
is possible to compose a certain idea about the many-sided work of Israeli
reconnaissance.

Palestinians, working on the jewfish security services called "mashtapim", i.e.

"collaborating" on Israeli army slang. Different ways lead them to "mashtapim". Part of
them is volunteers, decided to participate in the fight with the terror for material or
ideological reasons. The arrested Palestinian criminals been recruited under the
threat of long-standing imprisonment. Not less important source "mashpatim" are
terrorists themselves and band leaders, gripped during the raids of Israeli army. Even
the most unbridled fanatic-terrorists break after the many hours of interrogation and
different methods of action, used by inspectors of the Israeli security service...

Assembled with the aid of the technical equipment and the secret service agency
information about the terrorists' activity, training camps of suicides, the storages of
weapon and explosive is analyzed thoroughly. Anti-terrorist operations are planned

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according to this data. The lists of terrorists, who be subject to liquidation, also be
based on assembled data and then are asserted at the summit level. There are the lists of
the leaders of bands and the teachers of martyr- suicides - those, whose hands are
stained by the blood of peaceful people. Terrorist, who is the subject to liquidation,
been placed "under the cap" - all his displacements, connections, places of a stay are
tracked. For these purposes together with the data of agents widely is used unique
technical equipment, including pilot less aircrafts. Their equipment makes it possible to
transfer telemetry data at a distance. The terrorist's life for now is limited by days or
even hours...

The top of terrorists so was liquidated. The surviving bandits left into the deep
underground and are used their time and energy to the rescuing of their own life, but
not to planning and preparation for acts of terror. The actions of Israeli intelligence
services led to demoralization and disintegration of Palestinian terrorist structures.

Security forces do entire possible to avoid random victims among the peaceful
Palestinian population during the anti-terrorist operations and with the liquidations of
terrorists. It occurs so that the Israeli command abolishes operations against the
terrorists, if there is a risk of the defeat of peaceful Palestinians. Terrorists attempt to
use the humanism of Israelis hiding in the densely populated blocks of Palestinian
towns.

Brigadier General Gadi Ayzenkrot, Judea and Samaria division commander, reported on
800 anti-terrorist operations of Israel troops and security forces conducted on the
territory of Judea, Samaria and Gaza during first half of this year. Usually such
operations are the raids of the combat groups of the Israeli Special Force into the depths
of the enemy territory for the purpose of seizure or liquidation of the terrorist leaders,
martyrs of condemned men, and also undercover workshops, making explosive and
weapon for the terrorists. The elite Special Forces of Israeli army, navy and police
participate in the raids. The soldiers' professional level is very high, and therefore the
searched terrorists practically do not have chances to the rescuing.

The large-scale troop operations periodically are conducted. Infantry, tank connections,
aviation and field-engineer parts participate in these operations. Such expanded war
shooting against the terrorists became operation "shielding wall", which took place in
the spring of 2002 on the territory of Judea and Samaria, and the "rainbow in clouds" in
the Gaza Strip during May of this year. In the course of such operation the cities are
surrounded and hermetically blocked. The large forces of infantry and tanks are
introduced into the cities and total cleaning is achieved - center of resistances are
suppressed, tens of fighters are destroyed, their strong points explode, security services
conduct round-ups and mass filtration of Palestinian population.

Important role with conducting of anti-terrorist operations play subdivisions of

engineers, equipped with the gigantic armored bulldozers D-9. The armored bulldozers
- this is purely the Israeli invention, which proved its effectiveness in combat. By its
powerful panel bulldozer not only destroys any constructions and houses, but also it is
extremely useful with the mine clearing of locality.

Wide use of the helicopters by an Israeli army, equipped with high-precision rocket
weapon, became new word in the military skill for the point liquidations of terrorists

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and fire support of special operations. Impacts are delivered by the guided missiles
from the helicopters "apache" and "cobra". Guidance to the target is accomplished
by illumination of purpose by laser beam, directed from the helicopter, the pilotless
aircraft, by operators from the earth or along the wires. The homing rockets also used.
For example, the destruction of Khamas leaders in Nablus in 2001 by the released from
the helicopter rocket, entered the window of the room, where sheik Jamal Mansur with
the assistants was situated at this moment.

The routine patrolling of locality and checking on the block signal posts, the achieved
by forces police by frontier-guards remain not less important combat weapon against
terror. Last barrier in the way of martyr-condemned man frequently becomes soldier or
frontier-guard, who sacrifices his life for rescuing of tens of innocent civilians. The
constructed Shielding Wall is called to preserve thousands of innocent lives. It must
block the ways of the breakthrough of terrorists into the densely populated regions of
Israel. Israeli army accumulated the unique experience of fight with the terror in all its
manifestations. The high efficiency of the methods utilized by Israel and means of anti-
terrorist war shows that the terrorist infection completely yields to the radical methods
of treatment. As stated recently the Minister of Israel Defense Shaul Mofaz, "this new
tendency - level of terror gradually falls; however, us one ought not to miss initiatives.
The tactics of active anti-terrorist actions proved its high result ".