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December 15, 2023

How Israel Prevented a Second Front from Opening Up in the West Bank

Taking off the gloves and “the traumatic memory of the second intifada.”

Since October 7, Palestinians in Judea and Samaria have carried out 128 terrorist attacks that the Shin Bet (Israel’s internal security agency) judges “significant.” These include 112 shootings and two rocket launches, but not the many gunfights that have taken place between Israeli forces and local militants. Nevertheless, Hamas has not managed to carry out its plan to spark a mass uprising in the West Bank and draw the Jewish state into a two-front war. Neomi Neumann explains why:

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