In the West Bank, Netanyahu allowed settlers to run wild and rendered Hamas’ rival, Al Fatah, feckless. The Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority cooperated on security with Israel day after day, but rather than raise Al Fatah up as a negotiating partner, he humiliated it. Netanyahu made Al Fatah into a subcontractor of Israeli control and gave Palestinians nothing for it. Instead, he allowed settlers to continue to take the little they had. It is no accident that the Palestinian Authority’s legitimacy had collapsed even before the Hamas attacks on October 7. Generational shift In recent months, I’ve been thinking, as many...
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