After recovering from the many holidays and their culinary damage, we woke up to a supposedly "new" reality in which we encounter a relentless "wave" of terrorist attacks.
Only one thing is unclear in this whole concept: How can we give recent events a "wave" when this wave has been with us for almost a year and a half? Maybe a tsunami...
We woke up to a supposedly new reality and I'm trying to ask myself: Am I surprised, did this 'wave' catch me off guard? So it's not.
Unfortunately, there is no surprise here. I remember the warming in Judea and Samaria at that time and of course, as always, it begins and ends on the Temple Mount.
We have been living in such a reality for the past two years, where every Friday there are heightened preparations on the Temple Mount. Every Friday there are riots on the Mount with stone-throwing and fireworks, restrictions on the entry of young worshippers, and armed police trying to control the riots that have been given permanent status.
The attempted assassination of right-wing activist Yehuda Glick, demonstrations and riots in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, a car bombing north of Jerusalem, a stabbing attack at a gas station on Route 443, and many other such attacks.
But we, as it were, neither heard nor seen. As usual, we plastered over. In the meantime, more and more acts of revenge with a price tag, the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir more than a year ago in revenge for the murder of the three teenagers, which caused the vandalism of the light rail stations and their temporary shutdown in the Arab neighborhoods, and the creation of a new situation in which every time the train passes through the Arab neighborhoods, it is pelted with stones.
The arson of the Davushe family home, price tag actions that served as a match to further ignite the tense reality.
So what has it been up until now - not a 'wave of terror'?
For some reason, the news channels don't talk about stone-throwing, as long as no one is seriously injured or dies. Everything is fine and we can continue with our routine and broadcast business as usual. Worrying about which soccer team lost, and how much the prime minister's new residence costs...
Do not go up to the Temple Mount.
So don't tell me now 'a wave of terror.' This is a new kind of popular intifada that we haven't seen before.
Just today, 15 years ago, the horrific lynching took place in Ramallah. Every time I hear its shocking details, a shiver runs through my entire body.
And it's time to remember: Intifada means uprising in Arabic.
Am I the only crazy person here who knows that every morning I will wake up to a day of terrorist attacks, and that I must be careful on the street and fear every unsuspecting Arab, and be careful when driving on Route 443 that a stone is not thrown at us?
Just don't call it a wave of terror. It's an intifada.
And by the way, it is permissible to point a finger at the observant camp as well: Stop going up to the Temple Mount. You are not helping to calm the situation.
In Israel, a man served as prime minister who chose to ascend the Temple Mount to 'prove' to the Arabs that he was the master of the place. In the meantime, he fell into a coma and passed away, but the uprising (intifada) that followed his provocative actions is hard to forget.
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