Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made an erroneous but revealing statement during Monday’s Knesset meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. “The difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is only that Hamas wants to destroy us here and now and the PA wants to do it in stages,” Netanyahu stated. While Netanyahu was speaking of the hypothesis that the PA returns to a governing role in Gaza, which runs against Israel’s interests, there are implications of expanding colonial aggression in the Occupied West Bank, using the terror narrative as a pretext. To begin with, crediting the PA with such an aim is a ridiculous statement, given that its existence supports Israeli colonialism and would disintegrate completely without donor … Continue reading Netanyahu hints at expanding colonial violence to the Occupied West Bank