The frenetic elections that take place with Italian frequency stands in contrast to the stability of Israeli policy in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem). By that, I mean the policy that, ever since the occupation began in 1967, has been breaking up Palestinian territory into as many small enclaves as possible, each surrounded and disconnected from each other by as many Jewish-only settlement blocs as possible. These blocs are expanding and are increasingly being connected to Israel by a network of roads that is upgraded frequently.
The shredding of Palestinian space is the first and most important escalation, a permanent one written in advance into all government plans. Every Palestinian witnesses it and experiences it personally. Israeli Jews ignore it, out of elective ignorance, indifference and because they profit from it.
This is the mother of all escalations, about which every diplomat from the European Union or the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem receives regular reports. But in the mouths of their bosses at these nations’ foreign ministries, it is translated into cliches such as “we support Israel’s right to defend itself.” Diplomatic cynicism is also escalating.
Our media enthusiastically obsesses over minor, transient issues like the latest election poll and parrots ad nauseam the military/settler mantra about the escalation in Jenin. Its most important mission is to avoid dealing with what’s truly important – the planned, calculated territorial dissection that many Israelis have been carrying
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Amira Hass (Haaretz) | Oct 3, 2022