Arnon Grunberg

Signs

Pressure

On the pyromaniacs – Amos Harel in Haaretz:

‘Now, under pressure from the extreme right, a campaign has begun whose Hebrew name recalls Operation Defensive Shield, which put an end to the second intifada in the West Bank. This is a case of defrauding the public. It is a targeted operation involving a limited number of troops, which that will wind up in a few weeks with, as usual, mixed results.
But Netanyahu has no problem marketing this fraud with the army's tacit consent as a gift to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. At the same time, it was announced the IDF would bolster the number of troops deployed in the West Bank. But here too, it involves only a small number of extra troops.
This is not just a routine operation against terror infrastructure. There are clear signs of attempts to ignite the West Bank from the Israeli side, both by settlers and at junior command levels in the IDF. The real threat to the continued implementation of the hostage deal could come from the West Bank – in light of these moves and because of the risk of deliberately high-profile attacks by Jewish terrorists that lead to more revenge attacks from the Palestinian side.’

Read the article here.

The pyromaniacs move from Gaza to the West Bank, the impunity with which some of the settlers could ignite the West Bank was already a problem, even before October 7.

Some seem to think that fire is God’s will, other see in the fire just the best way to remain in power.

Cynicism is an understatement.

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