(ISM/Scoop-NZ) - IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon From a Passover Eve interview on IDF Radio: First of all, this isn't an intifada - a popular uprising. What we have experienced since September 2000 is a proactive attack and a strategic decision by the current Palestinian decision-maker to embark on a terror assault against us. The International Solidarity Movement peace activists come here after accepting the Palestinian story. Ostensibly, as they see it, we are the aggressors and they are the victims. In factual terms, the ones who started this aggression are the Palestinians. Those who initiated the incidents in Rafiah, in a place where unfortunately two of those activists were wounded, were the Palestinians. There are incessant terror operations there, stemming from the Palestinian terror organizations' need to smuggle weaponry from Egypt into the Palestinian-held area. I have just given an order to remove the organization's activists from the area, firstly for their own benefit - they are endangering their own lives in a superfluous way - but are also creating provocations that injure our freedom of action on the ground.
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