It's part of an overall escalation, and the election is probably one of the reasons... the government has been trying to push Palestinians into an uprising in the West Bank, arguably since Oct 7 but they are doubling their efforts.

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To my knowledge it’s plausible but not been currently shown that Otzma is actively organising or inciting (not just tolerating) attacks on Western diplomats/journalists to show that they care even less about mamlachtiut than the Likud to win more rightist votes. Maybe that’s what Howard had in mind?

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the settler movement already controls the police and the west bank governorate through ben gvir and smotrich. giving the hilltoppers free range was already the deal for putting those two in power. this is just a continuation of the same, imo.

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same thing happened yesterday to a wapo photog. this is state-sanctioned impunity.

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Oh man, you missed the best part!

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