The military arm of the campaign to Judaize the West Bank has been given a free hand

The West Bank District Police are not part of the equation, the Shin Bet has become irrelevant and the boundaries between Israeli citizens and the army have completely blurred in the West Bank. The project of cleansing the occupied territories of Arabs is gaining momentum - and no one is stopping it

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The military arm of the campaign to Judaize the West Bank has been given a free hand

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The West Bank District Police are not part of the equation, the Shin Bet has become irrelevant and the boundaries between Israeli citizens and the army have completely blurred in the West Bank. The project of cleansing the occupied territories of Arabs is gaining momentum - and no one is stopping it. 'Even when there are reports that something is going to happen,' says one reserve soldier, 'we get there after the fact'

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06:06 AM • March 27 2026 IDT

Even the Trump administration has woken up. Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador to Jerusalem and an ardent advocate of Greater Israel, has been repeatedly warning lately about the cumulative damage caused by Jewish terrorism in the West Bank.

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