Netanyahu’s Settler Gamble BLOWS UP as West Bank ERUPTS Into New Military Crisis!

Right, so Tell is a Palestinian village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. On Friday morning, a group of armed Israeli settlers came in from the direction of the nearby Havat Gilad outpost, without coordinating with the army. A bunch of armed settlers wander into a Palestinian area they're not supposed to be in, six people end up dead, and Netanyahu's government decides the real problem here is, of course, the Palestinians. Naturally. The settlers are escorted away. Tell gets locked down. Palestinian homes get raided. Soldiers march into a hospital. The Ramadan family gets a demolition threat. And the settlement movement, the folks whose little field trip started this, wake up to find they've been handed four shiny new outposts as a reward for all their trouble. One of them sits right beside Tell. That's a masterclass in punishment, isn't it? Cause chaos, collect prizes. It’s like a genocidal version of the Generation Game. Are outposts the Zionist version of a cuddly toy then? Start a deadly confrontation, watch the state punish the Palestinians, then wake up to discover the land-grab fairy paid you a visit while you slept. And while all this is going on, the IDF is already carrying a reported 26-battalion commitment across the West Bank. But Tell didn't magically create these 26 new battalions. The IDF is already running catastrophically short of troops, aren’t they? So this did something a lot more revealing. It added to the demands on an army already short of troops, already tied down protecting Netanyahu's every war front right now, and now, added to that, his settlement project too. It’s a wonderfully appropriate trap he’s got himself ensnared in, then isn’t it? The settlers decide where the next crisis begins. Netanyahu rewards them. The army gets handed another work order they will absolutely struggle to cover.