Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right: Israel is truly a dangerous place. Thousands of Hezbollah missiles are pointed toward northern Israel. It’s only a matter of time before the rocket fire on the region surrounding the Gaza Strip reaches its rate prior to the 2014 Operation Protective Edge.

On the Golan Heights, one can hear the echoes of the war the Syrian army is conducting against the opposition and Islamic State militants. The eastern neighbor, Jordan, is collapsing from the burden of refugees from Syria, and the prime minister has promised to build a fence along the Jordan River to block armed terrorists from crossing. Even the seashore was until recently under attack by poisonous jellyfish. And then there is the deepening hegemony of Iran in the region since the nuclear agreement signed in Vienna went into effect. A senior diplomatic source told Al-Monitor this weekend that Iran’s minister of defense will hold a coordination meeting in the next few days in Beijing with his colleagues from Russia and China. And while all this is happening, the fight that most concerns the United States, Israel’s patron, is next year's race to the White House. 

This list of dangers facing Israel could cause any reasonable person to lose sleep. But the topics of the day at the gym and in line at the bank and the supermarket, are knives, stones and cars driven by assassins. During the second intifada, one could blame the “Oslo Accord criminals” for signing an agreement that allowed the Palestinian Authority to arm police in Ramallah and Gaza with guns. Today, many terrorists hold an Israeli ID card along with their knife. The stones are thrown by youths who were born in the “city joined together,” which has become a city terrorized together.

At the height of the wave of suicide attacks, in 2001, a motion was discussed in the Knesset, initiated by right-wingers, called “The need to create a parliamentary investigative committee on the topic: Why did they give guns to Palestinians?” It’s interesting to consider whether they knew Israeli poet Nathan Alterman, who wrote the lines, “Nurse, one moment, I’ve two loved ones, fine good-hearted sons. When my day comes, oh for heaven, Don’t you give them guns!” Today, a new investigative committee should be created to discuss the question of why "they" gave the Palestinians the knives, screwdrivers, stones and cars used to run over Jews.