This is the state of play in Israel now.
The Biden administration is trying to stop Israel from going into Rafah while propping up a plan to build a “Palestinian State” under the Palestinian Authority. That’s a gang of terrorists better known as the PLO.
And while Israel fights in Gaza against Hamas, terrorists keep popping up trying to create small scale versions of Oct 7, including this time by a “Palestinian Authority police officer”. The PA police were members of the terrorist group who were armed, trained and funded by the Clinton administration and subsequently the Bush administration with disastrous results. The “police officers” quickly reverted to being terrorists again. Except they had better training for carrying out their attacks. And it’s not surprising that a PA “police officer” was involved in the latest attack.
Three Islamic terrorists struck at a gas station near the Israeli town of Eli. They killed Yitzhak Zeiger, a 57-year-old Israeli volunteer medic who leaves behind a wife, three children and two grandchildren, and a still unnamed teenager.
The terrorist came upon Zeigler while he was filling up his car at the gas station. Zeigler was able to draw his personal firearm and return fire, but was ultimately struck down by the attacker.
The gas station had been previously targeted by terrorists last year.
One of the terrorists was Muhammad Manasra, who is affiliated with Fatah, the ruling PLO group behind the Palestinian Authority, and had graduated from the Egyptian Police College.
He served as a Palestinian police officer, at a rank equivalent to major.
Manasara had two previous prison terms, and was last released from the Ofer prison in 2019, after serving a prison sentence for illegal carrying of arms.
Unlike the more liberal communities near the Gaza border targeted by Hamas on Oct 7, Eli and places like it tend to be hardened and the residents more prepared for terrorist attacks.
Two of the terrorists were taken out by IDF soldiers, while the third tried to run to a Hummus cafe. Big mistake.
The video shows what happened next.
The guy inside the restaurant was Aviad Gizbar, the owner of Hummus Eliyahu, and a reserve soldier, on a break from fighting in Gaza, who reacted quickly.
“I was on a refreshing break from battle in Khan Yunis and came here to my place at Humus Eliyahu,” said Gizbar adding that “the same terrorists who are in Gaza are the same terrorists who are here. Everywhere they want to destroy us.”
Gizbar shouts out, “We must stand up straight, stop being pushed around. It’s time to understand that we are here, and we are here to stay. Stop with the slacking attitude. We must stand up straight, continue the construction. Let’s raise our heads high.”
He recounted the moments of the attack, “I heard gunshots, I was inside the hummus restaurant. I immediately understood that it was an attack. I shot one bullet so that the terrorist would realize that I was here. I signaled to him, I saw that he saw me and started charging in my direction.”
He added, “I took position and shot him. We took him down. I continued scanning the area and saw that there were no other risks. That’s how the incident ended.”
And that is how you fight terrorism. Bullet by bullet. Dead terrorist by dead terrorist.
There’s an interview with him, but that won’t do much good unless you understand Hebrew, but the translation doesn’t capture the description. Gizbar delivers the forthright “everywhere they want to destroy us” speech to the media in a forceful manner and turns away from the camera. The reporter then asks him, but tell me what happened? Then Gizbar briskly recaps the confrontation.
But the guy working the hummus stand proved better in a combat situation than the terrorist mall cop.