Why tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are at a 20-year high


An Israeli American citizen was killed today in the West Bank. This follows an eruption of violence over the weekend when rare peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jordan were overshadowed by attacks and riots back home, sparked by the shooting of two Israeli brothers near a Palestinian town. Israeli officials quickly dubbed that a terrorist attack and hours later, riots broke out almost a pogrom, really. Israeli settlers throwing rocks and setting houses and Palestinian neighborhoods ablaze. It was shocking and horrifying. At least one Palestinian was shot and killed. CNN’s Hadas Gold is in Jerusalem with more on what Israeli officials call revenge attacks. Benjamin Netanyahu is the most experienced prime minister in Israeli history, but he’s facing unprecedented, multifaceted battles on nearly every front between the tensions and violence between Israelis and Palestinians at a 20 year high. On Sunday, the occupied West Bank burned two Israeli brothers shot point-Blank killed while sitting in traffic in what officials say was a terrorist attack, which was then in what’s been deemed revenge attacks by Israeli settlers. A Palestinian man shot and killed houses and cars burned just hours after Israeli and Palestinian officials met in a summit in Jordan meant to calm tensions. A joint communique pledging to take steps to restore calm, seeking a just and lasting peace. So the Knesset gave Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s far right wing coalition partners seemingly dismissing the summit in Jordan. The messages coming out. Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer says much of the controversy around Netanyahu is thanks to these governing partners. I think this is the least Netanyahu has ever been in control as a prime minister. He’s not basically he’s not running his government. His government is being run by the coalition partners who have him over a barrel. Meanwhile, for eight weeks in a row, tens of thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets to protest against Netanyahu’s planned massive judicial reforms. The most sweeping of these changes would give the Israeli parliament the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions. Many critics are arguing it’s part of a ploy to help Netanyahu out of his ongoing corruption trial. Something he denies. Good to see you, Sir Thomas. Good to see you. Netanyahu faces increasing international pressure from allies, notably the United States, which has criticized not only settlement expansion and some of Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank, but also a rare presidential incursion into internal Israeli politics. President Biden urging a consensus be reached on the judicial reforms. We’ve never had this kind of differences between Jerusalem and Washington. It’s always been over the Palestinian issue. It’s been over the Iran issue. It’s never been about the way the Israeli government is is legislating on a democratic agenda. We looming ahead in the calendar the highly sensitive period of overlapping Muslim and Jewish holidays of Ramadan and Passover, threatening to set Jerusalem aflame as well Yet another battlefront for Netanyahu, Israel’s ultimate survivor. For now, Ben and Jake, what’s really interesting about those settler rampages is that the Israeli military is actually calling them acts of terror, sort of rare moment agreement with Palestinian officials. We know that at least eight people have been arrested in connection to those attacks. Meanwhile, the Israeli military sending extra battalions into the West Bank to try and catch the attackers in those two attacks on the Israelis, as well, as they say, try to at least keep the two sides separated between Israeli settlers and Palestinians.

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