(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - One lesson Israel can learn from the Oct. 7 catastrophe is that it is imperative to deal with security challenges and problems early instead of waiting until they metastasize into something much larger and more dangerous. This is what the IDF is doing this week in northern Samaria to degrade an emerging Palestinian terrorist infrastructure before it takes on monstrous proportions. When the intense fighting stops in Gaza, the continuous war against preventing their resurrection will continue for years, if not decades. In Judea and Samaria, 22 years after the IDF reentered the territory following the Netanya Park Hotel massacre where a suicide bomber killed 30 people at a Passover seder, the IDF is still "mowing the lawn" to prevent the re-emergence of terrorism.
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