Cancer cells...

Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Daniel Hagari made the following statements in August: "Terror acts committed by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank force Palestinians to retaliate. Yes, in recent months, there has been an increase in terror incidents involving Palestinians, but in response, nationalist crimes and nationalist terrorism are also increasing. What settlers are doing is terrorism. There is no other way to express it. We need to address this issue and resolve it. If we can control the settlers, overall terrorism will decrease."

Some ministers in the Benjamin Netanyahu government and far-right Jewish lawmakers reacted strongly to Hagari's statements, accusing him of "acting with left-wing thoughts." Some even said, "He doesn't know how to distinguish between our citizens and enemies."

At the same time as Daniel Hagari's statements, the Israeli media reported that the head of Israel's domestic security service, Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, had submitted a report to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The report emphasized that settler terrorism in the West Bank was also terrorizing the Palestinian population. During those days, news continued to arrive about terror acts signed by Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

To put it in concrete terms based on recorded figures:

In the first half of 2023 alone, Jewish settlers in the West Bank carried out 680 acts of stoning and physical assault against Palestinians. This number was 950 for the whole of 2022. In the same period, the number of settler attacks resulting in serious injuries or death was 36. These should also include incidents like arson of vehicles, burning olive groves, sabotage of protest demonstrations, and constant harassment of Western journalists and activists.

In short, there is a terrorist group before us, as Israel's security bureaucracy now has to admit. They are an armed group who have the right to carry weapons, do not receive punishment for any crimes they commit, and are a fascist and Arab/Muslim-hating group. Like cancer cells, they enter a body and disrupt and corrupt it, and they are beyond rehabilitation. We are talking about a population of 750,000 people within the borders of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This is also an affair where the U.S. and Western countries, who so-called "illegally" defined it, do nothing but condemn as Israel, despite making decisions to construct new settlements.

After the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israel in 1967, the settlement policy used as a "permanent method of Judaization" for the areas where Palestinians lived has now turned into a point that has completely poisoned the domestic political ground of Israel:

On the evening of November 4, 1995, one of the most radical and ruthless Zionist actors in Israeli history, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was shot dead in the heart of Tel Aviv by a Jewish settler. The murderer Yigal Amir accused Rabin of "selling the Zionist cause" based on the Oslo Accords signed with Yasser Arafat in 1993, mediated by the U.S. Amir, who cited the Oslo Accords as the reason, convicted Rabin of "betraying Zionism." However, Rabin, during the First Intifada in 1987 when Hamas emerged, approached Arafat, whom he had never considered worth engaging with until then, thus dividing the Palestinian front and aiming to represent the Palestinian issue in the world by the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In terms of the conditions he imposed on the Palestinians, Oslo was a very advantageous agreement for Israel. In short, while Rabin stood side by side with Arafat, he primarily put the interests of Zionism and Israel first. But the settler group was so hostile to the Palestinians and Arabs that it even failed to notice this "strategic" step and could accuse an icon like Rabin of "betraying Zionism."

After the Rabin assassination, the first general election brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power in Israel (1996-1999). Netanyahu, who owes his prime ministry to settler frenzy, never forgot that he would suffer the same fate as Rabin if he upset them. Today, what makes Netanyahu and his cronies so ruthless, merciless, and unstable is this background.

Just two months ago, Daniel Hagari, who warned of settler terrorism and alerted Israelis, is now talking about "completely erasing Gaza." Yet he had diagnosed the main cause of the current tension himself. This is exactly the psychology of occupation: The logic chain is canceled, replaced only by hostility and hatred. In history, no state that entered this dark tunnel has ever come out of it. Unless it changes its politics, Israel won't be able to get out of it either.