Current sectionWest Bank NewsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeIsraeli Border Police point their weapons at Palestinians near Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank last year. Credit: Itai RonThe fall election may offer a glimmer of hope for change, but even if Jewish terror attacks are reduced, the technical and bureaucratic cruelty of the occupation isn't going anywhere08:32 PM • July 23 2026 IDTIt sounded like a dramatic moment, maybe even a turning point: Israel's hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was so repulsed by the gruesome attacks by Jewish terrorists against Palestinians in the West Bank that he called them a "spreading cancer." Netanyahu himself – not a minister and not a mouthpiece.In the NewsEven if Israel Ends Settler Violence, the Violence of the Occupation Will RemainEilat Resident Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering a Migrant Worker in JerusalemIn Two-month First, Oil Tops $100 a Barrel After Houthis Strike TankersKozo Okamoto, Who Killed 24 in 1972 Airport Attack in Israel, Dies at 78U.K.'s Hackney Aims to End Twinship With Israel's Haifa Over 'Ongoing Conflict'Remembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThe Most Optimistic Israeli in Jerusalem Is Leaving the CountryAs Ground Invasion Looms, U.S. and Iran Want Wild-card Israel Out of the FightThe Original Ozempic Society of Ancient RomeBetween Messi and Milei: How Argentina Became Israel's Team at the World Cup'Choose Hope': Natalie Portman Backs Arab-Jewish Party Ahead of Israeli ElectionHélène Cixous: 'I Accept Israel's Existence, but I Don't Identify With It'