The hints of outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot are frightening even if they don’t say much that’s new, especially for those who see Yeshastan, the settlers conglomerate, getting bigger, richer and better armed.

It’s nothing new that the settler right and the religious-Zionist right are pushing for escalation and war. Why does the settler right (even those living in Ra’anana) want war? Here you need a very clear, detailed explanation because the levels of cognitive repression among people living west of the Green Line are sky-high.