When I read that the IDF “strongly condemns” the​ recent​ killing of three more Palestinians in the West Bank, I didn’t know whether to laugh at the hypocrisy or cry at the moral abyss my country is descending into. 

The hypocrisy continued when the day after the incident, ​Israeli ​Police Commissioner Dany Levy arrived in the West Bank, and instead of addressing the epidemic of violence and killing emanating from the ​illegal ​outposts, ​he ​declared with great pathos​ –​​ ​alongside the head of the Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan​ –​ that we will stand for “sovereignty and governance​,​​ ​because we have no other state​.​” ​Levy did ​not ​say ​a word about the six Palestinian fatalities ​that​ week​. This declaration is not entirely ​surprising​ considering that for Levy,​ “governance” has long been an empty slogan​; ​within Israel, he has raised his hands ​in surrender in the face of​ Arab crime organizations, and ​beyond​ the Green Line, he is indifferent to Jewish nationalist criminal organizations. 

​​In the West Bank, the Israeli police are nonexistent, and the army is usually absent in these........

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