The wave of continuous resistance operations across the West Bank, which is the largest since the wave of operations witnessed in 2015, will represent one of the most important challenges that the next Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu will face.

The ability of the future government to confront the Palestinian act of resistance is an important test for the parties representing the extreme religious right that will participate in this government, and which pledged during the electoral campaign to put out the flame of the smoldering resistance through a wide range of commitments that it presented to the public, as a recipe, not only to end this wave of operations. ;

But also to resolve the conflict with the Palestinian people in favor of Israel.

And given that the participating parties in the next ruling coalition, specifically the “religious Zionism” movement led by Bezalal Smotrich and the “Kahani” movement led by Itamar Ben Gvir present themselves as representatives of the masses of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, which is the main target of the resistance operations, the attempt to quell this wave of operations Resistance will be at the top of the next government's priorities.

The parties that will be represented in Netanyahu's next government realize that the current caretaker government led by Yair Lapid has failed to put an end to the resistance operations, even though it unleashed the hands of the occupation army and intelligence and granted them an absolute margin of freedom to operate throughout the West Bank with all available tools.

The occupation army continues to launch the "breaking waves" campaign that it launched more than 7 months ago, in which it storms all the cities of the West Bank and carries out raids, arrests and physical liquidations against those suspected of being involved in the resistance.

The occupation army also benefits from the security cooperation of the Palestinian Authority, which has proven its important role in reducing the influence and role of some resistance formations, specifically the "Assad's Den" group in Nablus.

However, the resistance operations still surprised the occupation in terms of timing, location, and the nature of the objectives.

And given the realization of the components of the next government that the occupation army failed to put an end to the resistance operations, despite its exhaustion of security and military solutions, it tended to make populist pledges to quell the resistance by adopting harsher security and military tactics.

The Likud leader, Yoav Gallant, who is expected to occupy the position of defense minister in the next government, has pledged to try to dry up the resistance environment in the West Bank through military and security means that have not yet been implemented.

Gallant, who is known for his extremism, plans to use his new position to pave the way for Likud leadership and prime ministership in the future.

The parties that will participate in the next government openly seek to bring about a major shift in the legal and administrative structure, so that the future government will be given a new toolkit that it believes will help stop the resistance.

Some of the parties in the upcoming coalition insist on passing a law allowing the imposition of the death penalty on Palestinian resistance fighters who kill or injure the occupation soldiers and settlers.

And enacting another law that legislates the expulsion of those proven to incite against Israel.

Ben Gvir, who will take over the position of Minister of Internal Security in the next government, insists on changing the firing orders, so that soldiers and police personnel are given a wide margin of freedom to target whoever they see as a source of threat among the Palestinians, and to pass a law that grants soldiers immunity from prosecution if they kill Palestinians.

Also, the monopoly of the leaders of the extreme right in sensitive ministerial portfolios related to managing the conflict against the Palestinian people gives them the ability to take administrative measures that escalate the confrontation against the Palestinian people.

For example, Ben Gvir could turn the police, which are under his command as Minister of Internal Security, into a militia that implements his extremist agenda, especially after he received a pledge from Netanyahu to amend the law to have absolute powers over all police formations.

The policies of the next Netanyahu government will contribute to providing an environment that allows for the unification of the Palestinian struggle arenas, as the components of this government have made it clear that they will target the Palestinians of the interior no less than the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which will expand the area of ​​resistance work in a way that may lead to the depletion of the occupation army and Israel's resources

However, the leaders of the next Israeli government will discover that the escalation of security and military measures and the expansion of enacting laws aimed at drying up the resistance work environment will be just a boomerang and will lead to counterproductive results.

The escalation of military and security operations could lead to a reduction or cessation of resistance operations if it was related to operations carried out by organizational structures of the resistance.

However, most of the resistance operations that continue throughout the West Bank are individual operations carried out by young men who do not belong to organizations, which makes the task of obtaining advance intelligence information to thwart operations before they occur impossible.

Also, the bet on neutralizing large segments of the Palestinian youth from the path of resistance by improving the economic conditions in the West Bank by offering job opportunities in Israel has proven its failure.

The Israeli security forums acknowledge that the resistance operations continue despite the improvement in the economic conditions, which indicates that the trend to carry out the resistance operations reflects the national spirit of struggle that aspires to get rid of the occupation with the willingness to pay the price.

The Palestinian youth who carry out resistance operations do so in light of their certainty that the occupation army will demolish their families' homes as a form of targeted collective punishment.

At the same time, the legislation imposing the death penalty on the resistance fighters, which Ben Gvir preaches, lacks any deterrent effect.

Considering that the perpetrators of the resistance operations assume that they will not remain alive, in addition to that the issuance of death sentences will increase the chances that the Palestinians will kidnap settlers and soldiers in an effort to pressure the occupation to prevent the implementation of these sentences.

Not only that, but the policies that the next government will adopt in terms of developing the settlement project in the West Bank, Judaizing Al-Aqsa Mosque, and providing a security and legal environment that allows Jewish settlers to continue their attacks on the Palestinians will in itself be a catalyst for fueling the spirit of resistance.

Undoubtedly, the most dangerous expected repercussions of the Israeli government's behavior will be a push towards the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, which is already suffering from an increasing loss of ability to govern and control, as recently warned by the Israeli internal intelligence "Shin Bet" and the administration of US President John Biden.

The increasing levels of repression against the Palestinians under the next government and the increasing manifestations of the authority's inability to provide the minimum level of protection for the Palestinian masses will increase the chances of their collapse.

Knowing that some of the parties participating in the new Tel Aviv government are calling for the abolition of the Oslo Accords and the dissolution of power, such as the "religious Zionism" and "Kahani" movements.

It was no coincidence that the occupation army and intelligence persisted in warning the ruling political echelon of the repercussions of the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, given that the security, economic and strategic repercussions that would result from this development would be very expensive.

The collapse of the PA would deprive Israel of the revenues it derives from security cooperation, in addition to making it responsible, instead of the PA, for providing the economic and human requirements of the Palestinians as the occupying power, as stipulated in international law.

The policies of the next Netanyahu government will contribute to providing an environment that allows the unification of the Palestinian struggle arenas, as the components of this government have made it clear that they will target the Palestinians inside the country no less than the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which will expand the area of ​​resistance work in a way that may lead to the depletion of the occupation army and Israel's resources. .

The decisions of the upcoming Israeli government and the laws it will pass will give the Palestinians and supporters of their cause more tools for legal struggle in the international arena to confront the occupation.

The consensus of the parties to participate in this government to pass a law that abolishes the powers of the Supreme Court as a supervisory body over laws enacted by the Knesset and decisions taken by the government will deprive Israel of the ability to claim that it possesses a judicial apparatus that allows independent investigations into accusations of war crimes and serious violations of the law. international.

The seriousness of the repercussions of revoking the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court will increase after the recent United Nations General Assembly resolution authorizing the International Court of Justice to consider determining the status of the ongoing Israeli occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories.

Whereas, Israeli estimates suggest that the International Court will issue a decision considering the continued occupation of these lands as an effective annexation by Israel.

In addition, the policies and decisions of the next government will help strengthen the activities of the international boycott movement against Israel (BDS), which calls on the international community and the countries of the world to stop all forms of cooperation with Israel as an occupying entity that imposes apartheid in the occupied territories.

From the foregoing, it can be concluded that the policies of the Netanyahu government will lead to fueling the conflict with the Palestinian people and increasing its costs instead of resolving it.