Israel Records Lowest Number of Terrorist Attacks

Terrorism in Western nations rose sharply last year with a recorded 280% increase from 2024. That’s the conclusion of the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Terrorism Index report.

According to the index, the driving cause was Islamic terrorism “including the New Orleans truck attack in the United States in January, and the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia in December” and “most of these deaths and attacks were caused by jihadist groups or affiliated individuals.”

In the United States, deaths from terrorism attacks hit their highest level since 2019 with 28 killings. This includes not only various Islamic terrorist attacks, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical leftist angry at his opposition to transgender identity politics.

America accounts for half the terrorism casualties in western nations, but these numbers pale compared to 5,582 people killed worldwide in 2,944 terrorist attacks.

70% of these worldwide terrorist attacks were carried out by four Muslim terrorist organizations including ISIS, Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen (Group Upholding for Islam and Muslims), a West African terror group that has served as an affiliate for Al Qaeda and ISIS, the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), affiliated with Afghanistan’s Taliban and Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamic terrorist group that had allegedly benefited from Somali fraud in Minnesota.

What about Israel? There were only 5 deaths from terrorist attacks in the last year.

The index notes that “Israel experienced its lowest number of terror attacks in 2025 since the inception of the Index.” In early 2023, before the October 7 attacks, I tracked how the number of Islamic terrorist attacks in Israel rose when Biden reversed Trump’s aid cutoff and began sending massive amounts of money in ‘humanitarian aid’ to Islamic terrorists in Israel.

In Feb 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, and 15 in 2017, and 16 in 2016. In 2020 however only three Israelis were killed. This was likely an aberration due to the pandemic and the lack of easy targets. But by 2021, after the Biden administration restored aid, terrorist attacks quickly resumed with 17 dead, and then up to 32 killed in 2022. And 2023 became the worst year.

Israel has seen the lowest rate of terrorist attacks under President Trump. And it has shown that going on the offensive against Islamic terrorists works while pandering to them does not.

The Index reported that only five Western European nations had worsening terror scores: France, United Kingdom, Austria, the Netherlands, and Serbia. Four out of those countries, France, the UK, Austria and the Netherlands have governments that have bent over backwards for Islam and Islamic terrorism. They condemned Israel while encouraging Islamic migration.

Instead of making them more safe, it has made life in these countries more dangerous.

We have been told ever since 9/11 that fighting Islamic terrorism doesn’t work, that it just creates more terrorists and that the only thing to do is try and defuse their grievances.

But that hasn’t worked.

What has worked is cutting off their money and going after state sponsors of terrorism. Israel’s campaign against Iran has done far more to reduce terrorism than its disastrous efforts to improve life in Gaza that every other government and expert insisted was the only solution.

Islamic terrorism became a global crisis because during the Cold War, Western nations refused to hold the state sponsors of terrorism accountable and I instead played a senseless game of whack-a-mole with small bands of Jihadists whose leadership wasn’t in caves, but in the heartland of the Muslim countries whom we insisted on pretending were really our allies.

Even finding Osama bin Laden living under Pakistani protection didn’t stop us from pretending that the Islamic terrorist state whose leaders had praised the terrorist was really an ally.

When Israel moved from bombing Hamas to bombing Iran, it exchanged a proxy war for direct warfare. Much as when it struck Qatar, it sent a clear message. There are few Islamic terrorist groups that are truly independent. Most of them have state sponsors that fund and harbor them.

Islamic terrorism isn’t about ‘grievances’; it’s about Muslim countries and wealthy clans funding terrorism with our own money. They invest millions into terrorist groups that we then spend billions fighting. If the Saudis, the Qataris and the Pakistanis had to fear real U.S. retaliation after September 11, they would have thought twice about their role in Al Qaeda.

After decades of playing that same game, Israel has decided to play a new game. And it’s paying off not just in the destruction of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile program, but in the diminishing number of Islamic terrorist attacks.

The rest of the world would be wise to learn from it. Fighting terrorists works.

Those trying to convince us that fighting Islamic terrorism is futile want them to win. And so they seek to convince us that Islamic terrorism can never be defeated and that trying will be much worse than surrendering to it. What frightens them is that we will actually try to defeat it and win.

Barack Obama tried to convince us that weakness was strength, President Trump has shown us that weakness is just weakness and strength is strength, and that if you want to stop terrorist attacks, you have to crush the terrorists. Israel has shown us that when terrorists die, terrorist attacks drop because most of the time the most obvious solution to a problem is also the right one.

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