IDF soldiers arrested over 50 members of terror group during predawn raids in Judea and Samaria, less than a day after Islamic Jihad gunmen murdered an Israeli motorist in northern Samaria.

The detainees included local Jenin-area Islamic Jihad commander, who security officials said was involved in manufacture of rockets and in planning a series of attacks against Israeli Jews.

Israel had refrained from acting against “Palestinian” terror groups outside of arresting “ticking bombs” for past several months, following announcement of a one-sided ceasefire brokered by PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas.

“Diplomacy is important and has a vital role to play [in solving Israeli-Arab conflict], but its function must be different than Oslo process and Road Map suggest,” Gingrich argued in summer edition of Middle East Quarterly.

“The focus on Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy cannot work when one side has a leadership that does not deliver on its word.”

The 2008 presidential hopeful noted that “in order for diplomacy to work, negotiators must be honest brokers willing to keep commitments,” an area in which Gingrich noted Palestinian Authority leadership was lacking.

“Diplomacy should not be used as political checkmate while one side keeps its word, and other side willfully disregards its promises to gain political advantage,” he wrote.

Gingrich called Road Map, which was largely formulated by Bush Administration, a “product of a period of failure now past,” and urged Washington, “It is time to move on.”