The crime committed by the settler gangs in the village of Jit, where they killed one of its young men, burned its property, and terrorized its residents, brings to mind the atrocities committed by the fathers and grandfathers of these criminals, members of the Stern, Lehi, and Haganah gangs, against the residents of the villages and towns opposite the village of Jit in the lands of 1948.

What happened to the village of Jit is an advanced version of that long night that the people of Hawara experienced about two years ago, and it is only the visible part of the crater of the volcano that is characterized by anger, and is waiting for an opportunity to distribute sparks, in a practical application of the Talmudic doctrine that shapes the thinking and behavior of murderers who draw from a reservoir polluted with racism and hatred towards those they call the Gentiles.

The perpetrators live only in tanks, on the edge of the sword, and in the dark. Peace is their enemy, stability contradicts their beliefs, and they have no choice but to continue their crimes, as their ancestors committed them.

Like an arrow that was launched without any expectation of a destination, dozens of settlers swooped down on the peaceful village, carrying knives, machine guns, and highly flammable petroleum products, to commit their crime under the cover of darkness, under the protection and care of the occupation soldiers who do not intervene unless the victim defends herself.

If there is a thread that links what happened in the village of Jit with what happened in Hawara two years ago, and what Tantura endured more than seven decades ago, it is the thread of blood that the perpetrators are shedding without the slightest regard for international laws from which they feel they are safe from punishment.

The Jet crime should set off more than one red flag, in light of what may happen in the coming days of crimes in which the perpetrators, a regular army and gangs, exchange their functional roles in killing and terrorizing, in a practical application of the doctrine of erasure, burning and annihilation, whose bloody chapters continue, relentlessly, against our people in the Gaza Strip.

It is a live ammunition exercise, to test international reactions, which encourages them to repeat it in other villages and towns.