Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan called on the Israeli government Thursday night to “change the diskette” — an Israeli expression meaning to change the way the government is reacting to and dealing with terror.
Dagan issued a sharp response to news that three Israelis were wounded — including one in critical condition and another in fair to serious condition — by Palestinian Authority terrorists who opened fire from a vehicle at Israelis riding in a car near the northern Samaria Jewish community of Homesh.
The terrorists escaped. Israeli military forces immediately set out to search nearby Arab villages for the suspects.
“The Israeli government is losing its deterrence, a series of repeated steps that are causing Arab terrorism from the Palestinian Authority to raise its voice,” Dagan said in response to news of the attack.
“We are the settlers in Samaria and together with us all the people of Israel will defeat terrorism, we will defeat them,” he said in the statement.
“I demand and call at this time for the government to ‘change the diskette’ (ed. note: change its response to terror).
“This government, whether we elected it or not, is responsible for the security of every citizen in the State of Israel.
“It cannot be that time and time again civilians are shot in central places in the State of Israel. . . Jewish blood cannot be abandoned.”