Is the Palestinian Authority hoping to accomplish a Judea and Samaria version of October 7th? If you ask most Israelis who live in Judea and Samaria, they will say unequivocally, that they will try to do this – again and again. But the key to stopping this is to constantly be on the offense and not stay in a defensive posture.
But moreover, the lessons of October 7th must be learned. No hi-tech fences will ever be better guards than a well-armed army that stands between the terrorists and Israeli citizens. No Army unit that comes and goes in an area will ever know an area better than local first responders who are intimately familiar with the terrain and the threats in their own backyard.
The key is to bolster all of these in order to stop any attack in it’s tracks. First off, the Army must constantly be placing any terrorist infrastructure that is in the process of growing on it’s hind legs. This can be accomplished with constant surveillance, intelligence, and surgical attacks into Arab neighborhoods and cities that are known for their terror activity. The changes have already begun, but it must be maintained and deepened until the Palestinian Authority is completely defanged and demilitarized.
As far as boosting the Israeli Army presence in Judea and Samaria that stands between Arab cities and Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria, this is probably the easiest of all changes to implement. Beefing up patrols and guards around the clock while operating intense drone patrols around the clock will provide the early warning system better than any hi-tech fence.
Lastly, the first responders in each Israeli town in Judea and Samaria must be large enough to repel and keep the enemy at bay for at least 12 hours in order to insure reinforcements can come in and wipe out any attackers. If a typical small town has 15-25 first responders, this must become 30-40 first responders with sufficient weaponry to repel and destroy an attack of hundreds of marauding terrorists.
This is anything but fear-mongering. It is a sober look at the reality of what Israel faces in the post-October7th reality.