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There have only been three patterns of attacks by Jewish terror groups so far. The first pattern is the targeting of those with direct or indirect responsibility for the murder of Jews - the terrorists who attacked Arab mayors in 1980. The second is carrying out attacks against Arabs, because of a belief that such attacks will advance and accelerate the coming of the Messiah and the redemption process - the plans to blow up the Dome of Rock. The third model is carried out by terrorists convinced that revenge is a halakhic obligation, or that such attacks will deter Arab terrorists.
The current model of attack will be evident when all the suspicions against the people detained for allegedly hurting Arabs are published. It is likely that the main motive behind the attacks is revenge or deterrence.
The biographies of some of the detainees, however, show that they may have regarded their actions as a halakhic obligation, and maybe even consulted with people they regarded as spiritual authorities.
There have been several attacks in the past in which Arabs had been murdered by people whose relatives were murdered by terrorists. Daniel Moreli from Ashkelon was convicted of murdering Riad Hassan Salamiyah on the Kiryat Gat-Hebron road in 1995. A year earlier, Moreli's brother, a former Border Police officer, was killed after his car collided with the vehicle Salamiyah was driving. Moreli was convinced the crash was a targeted attack.
In October 1984 David Ben-Shimol fired a LAU missile at an Arab bus in Jerusalem, after his friend was killed in a terror attack carried out by Palestinians on bus number 18 in the capital.
Aryeh Chelouche was sentenced to seven years in jail in April 1991 after he was convicted of an attempt to murder Arabs. His brother, policeman Charlie Chelouche, was murdered several months earlier.
The terror attack carried out by several youths from the outlawed Kach movement in the Butchers' Market in the Old City of Jerusalem in November 1992, as well as the attack in the Islamic College in Hebron in the 1980's, are examples of attacks in which the perpetrators believed that deterrence was a necessity, because of the authorities' powerlessness.
There were terror attacks in the past that were given a religious significance. In pamphlets distributed in recent years in synagogues (not necessarily in the settlements) rabbis published articles that gave revenge a religious meaning.
Some of them said that not only the state should carry out the revenge. Kabbalist elements, originating in the Jewish occult, were sometimes combined in their perception of revenge, and were hinted in the pamphlets.
There are kabbalists even among the settlers, and there are those who have spoken about revenge in the past. Is there a connection between the detainees and those figures? There is no answer to this question yet.
The identities of the detained men, if indeed the suspicions against them are substantiated, pull the rug out from under the assumption that known organizations, which allegedly claimed responsibility for the attacks, such as the "Committee for Safety on Roads", are indeed behind attacks against Arabs in recent years.
It turns out that these organizations were only a front for new organizations of previously unknown activists, who decided to use the better known 'brands' in an attempt to cover up their actions.
Attacks against Palestinians April 3, 2001 - Two injured in shooting attack in Hebron July 6, 2001 - Three hurt in shooting attack near Rimonim settlement June 13, 2001 - One killed in shooting attack on Hizmeh-Mishor Adumim road July 19, 2001 - Three killed in shooting attack near Hebron July 29, 2001 - One killed in shooting attack on Hizmeh-Mishor Adumim road October 11, 2001 - Two hurt in shooting attack in West Bank October 24, 2001 - Six hurt in shooting attack in Bani Naim Junction March 4, 2002 - 11 hurt when explosive device blows up near school in Tzur Baher April 1, 2002 - Two killed in shooting attack near Kochav Hashahar April 27, 2002 - Powerful bomb detonated in Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, leading to exposure of Bat-Ayin cell June 21, 2002 - Palestinian killed in lynching in village of Burin July 28, 2002 - 14-year-old girl killed in Hebron by settlers attending Elazar Leibovitch's funeral August 15, 2002 - Explosive device found near Beit Anun junction September 17, 2002 - Five students hurt in school in Kafr Yatta after 10-kg bomb explodes, another bomb neutralized April 9, 2003 - Jewish group claims responsibility for explosion in Jenin school in which 20 were hurt. Shin Bet believes Jewish underground not behind attack.
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