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"It is utterly devastating to realize how [ill]-equipped mentally and politically Israel's current leadership is in facing the challenges to Israel's existence, security and Zionist ethos," said Yisrael Medad, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shilo[h] and a volunteer spokesman for the Jewish communities there. Since 1992, Israel has been going in the wrong direction -
yielding territory, granting the Palestinians a form of self-rule and arming the
Palestinians, Medad said in a telephone interview on Friday. Israel needs to be firm with the Palestinians and tell them no terror. Maybe they can have some kind of autonomy now, and maybe sometime in the future when they've stopped killing themselves and everyone else, they can talk about more, he said. For the past 80 years, the Palestinian national movement has been at odds with the Jewish national movement - Zionism, said Medad. "The way out is certainly not yielding territory and pampering a people that continuously violate every agreement you've signed with them."

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In a story on the Amnesty Report:-

Yisrael Medad, a resident of the Jewish West Bank settlement of Shilo and a volunteer spokesman for the Jewish communities there, said that the claim in the report that the barrier can be a "matter of life or death" for Palestinians is a "classic example of perverting morality."

"They seem to prefer that Jews and Arabs die rather than seeing Israel even in a stopgap manner halting the cycle of death and terror," Medad said in a telephone interview.

Medad said that the report had it backwards when it claimed that Israel was imposing "collective punishment" on the Palestinians by erecting roadblocks and placing travel restrictions on them.

"If there is any collective punishment, it is that of the Arabs who single out every single Jew as a legitimate target for their illegitimate terror," said Medad. No international body has ever condemned the terrorism in the same manner that it has condemned Israel's right to self-defense, he said.