Sleeping with an arsonist
Avi Issacharoff analyzes the actions of MK Zvi Sukkot, who vandalized a monument to a Palestinian terrorist in the village of Madama, as part of a far-right strategy to inflame the territory ahead of the elections. The article criticizes Netanyahu's response, the coalition's silence on Jewish violence, and the IDF's cooperation with extremists, warning of severe security consequences.
In his column on ynet, Avi Issacharoff analyzes the actions of MK Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism), who vandalized a monument to a Palestinian terrorist in the village of Madama, south of Nablus. The article presents the act as part of a deliberate strategy by the far-right ahead of the Israeli elections: inflaming the territory, encouraging Palestinian violence, creating a pretext for Israeli action against the Palestinian Authority, and boosting support for Sukkot's party amid competition with Otzma Yehudit. Issacharoff harshly criticizes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response, which he calls "cynical" and "feigned," and notes that the coalition led by Netanyahu has given Sukkot tacit support for months, including during the break-in at an IDF base. The article expands on the phenomenon of "Jewish terrorism" that has become an epidemic, and on the IDF's cooperation with extremists, including their recruitment into emergency response teams. Issacharoff warns of the erosion of the IDF's status in the territories and concludes that for the coalition, the elections are more important than security stability.