How a Campaign of Extremist Violence Is Pushing the West Bank to the Brink
T. Belman. “Settler violence” is a coined phrase to implicate the settlers into a cycle of violence. This article is long on emotionalcoverage and short on causation. But it does report that ”
Palestinian attacks on Israelis in the West Bank are also escalating, and Israeli officials say there have been more than 550 since Oct. 7.
U.N. officials said that so far this year, at least 23 Israeli civilians had been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is several times higher than it has been in previous years.”
It does not identify how many Palestinians if any, were killed by settlers, if any.
In any event the settlers have a right to be enraged and to fight back. Ben Gvir supports them. Bibi wants calm.
Israeli settlers and Palestinians have been locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades. But extremist settler attacks could send the conflict out of control.
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Rami Nazzal and
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Experienced observers say the sharp increase in violence is part of a broader campaign to scare Palestinians off their land that has been allowed to accelerate amid Israel’s enraged and wounded mood. Since Oct. 7, settler violence has displaced nearly 1,000 Palestinians, including entire herding communities.
