Open this photo in gallery: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 23.GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images Ami Pedahzur is a professor and the Chaikin Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa. Since Hamas’s horrific Oct. 7 attacks, far-right ministers in the Israeli government have been ratcheting up the already high tensions in the region. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s National Security Minister, has been handing out thousands of firearms to members of volunteer security squads, something critics fear could amplify the already...