Political analyst Tzivi Barel described the terrorism practiced by settlers in the West Bank as “organized state terrorism,” referring to the international sanctions that were approved against the “Amana” movement, the settlement arm of the “Gush Emunim” movement.

After a long delay of more than 46 years since the establishment of the Amana movement, the settlement arm of the Gush Emunim movement, the Canadian government decided to impose sanctions on it. Thus, Canada joined the US administration, the European Union and the British government, which in recent months had imposed sanctions on a number of settlers and settlement organizations, such as the “Lehavah” organization and its head, Bentzi Gopstein - a convicted criminal who holds the position of close advisor to the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben. Ghafir - on the "Hill Boys", which is not an organization, but those under its banner are well known, and on separate farms belonging to individuals, such as "Moshi Farm" and "Zvi Farm."

The sanctions include, among other things, preventing these activists from entering the countries that imposed sanctions on them, prohibiting collecting donations and carrying out commercial activities there, in addition to freezing their banking activities. These are not easy punishments for people who are accustomed to carrying out crimes and not being brought to trial in a country that is itself brought before the judiciary on charges of committing war crimes.

But the settler community and their supporters are not among those who raise their hands in surrender, and certainly not in the face of the goyim who interfere in their state’s internal affairs, and try to dictate to it the definition and nature of human rights in the areas registered in its name in the divine land registry (tapu).

The ministers of illegal settlements, led by Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, rushed to legislate laws that would empty these sanctions of their meaning and importance. Among them, we can point out Ben Gvir’s proposal to oblige banks in Israel to ignore sanctions, and Smotrich’s proposal to prevent the imposition of administrative detention on settlers, as well as his initiative. To establish a new settlement in response to every country that recognizes a Palestinian state “so that every country that cooperates with anti-Israel activities and recognizes the Palestinian Authority as a state knows that it supports the Zionist project and the promotion of Jewish settlement.”

Thus, although the settlements have so far constituted an “appropriate Zionist response,” in response to every killing of a settler in the territories (yes, a settler, to be honest, because the average Jew who is killed within the borders of the Green Line by terrorists does not deserve to establish a settlement in his name). To immortalize him.)

As of now, Sutrich declares: the settlements will serve as an offensive political weapon. When this is the strategy, it is no longer possible to be satisfied with “farms” and “settlement outposts” only, because it becomes clear that the “enemy states” are still unaware of the settlement obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and there is no escape from strengthening the areas with tens of thousands of additional residential apartments. New, and hundreds of thousands of Jews must be transferred there and the West Bank must be annexed, and perhaps the Gaza Strip as well, otherwise the “world” will continue to insist on not understanding.

However, the precedent of sanctions would also be evidence that “the world” does not intend to throw up its hands and surrender. Because one might wonder, what prompted Western countries to intervene now in particular in the illegal activity that has been going on since 1967? Essentially, why target these individual “weeds,” and not the government that continues to give them legal care, military protection and massive economic cover? This is because, in its approach, it confirms the legality and legitimacy of their activity and recognizes them as a party that serves Israel’s existential interest.

When there are ministers in the government who encourage settlement terrorism, and at its head stands a scarecrow granting patronage and approval to every whim of the crime ministers, the United States government and the governments of Western countries in general may come to the conclusion that the correct and appropriate path to combating chronic Israeli violations of international law cannot go beyond those responsible. The highest and highest levels, because if the actions and practices of individual settlers against the Palestinians are defined as terrorism, then it is not possible to avoid defining the organizations that support them as terrorist organizations, and it is also not possible to avoid defining the government that gives them full patronage as a government that supports terrorism, and this does not remain It is a threat limited to settlers and their organizations, but directed directly to every Israeli citizen.