IN recent weeks, Palestinians in the West Bank have experienced a massive increase in violent attacks by armed Israeli settlers, who are driving them off their land and destroying houses and crops in an effort to displace them and seize their lands. There is clear Israeli government support for these “invasions.” United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who supports Israeli settlements, called the attacks on the Palestinians a “horrific act of terror” and called the settlers “Israeli terrorists.” In the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has called for an end “to the repeated acts of violence against the Palestinian population...