Policy, not settlers' actions

The article discusses how the incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque and the assaults by settlers on Palestinians, which the media often portray as isolated acts by extremist settlers, are in fact orchestrated and financed by the Israeli state as part of an official policy. The occupiers utilize settlers as tools to achieve their goals, particularly in expanding settlements and Judaizing Jerusalem. This is done under the direction of government leadership, especially ministers and party leaders like Ben Gvir, aiming to impose facts on the ground and diminish Palestinian and international reactions. The events reveal that the government deliberately separates settlers’ conduct from its broader policies, sometimes even conducting staged trials for settlers—to shift blame onto them rather than onto the state itself. Meanwhile, Israel continues to pursue the construction of the Temple Mount at the expense of Al-Aqsa, exploiting religious occasions to serve political objectives.

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