Several hundred former top officials in the Israeli military, police, Shin Bet and Mossad have appealed to US President Donald Trump to pressure Jerusalem to crack down on burgeoning settler violence in the West Bank.
Trump is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House tomorrow.
In a letter to Trump and other top administration officials, the group Commanders for Israel’s Security is warning of the potential for major escalation “due to the rise of Jewish terror, coupled with the weakening of the Palestinian Authority.”
The letter, signed by some 600 former commanders and directors, warns that the rising violence “endangers Israeli security, US interests and regional stability.”
They say that “the consequences may prove even more catastrophic than the October 7 Hamas atrocities and its multi-front fallout… It will foreclose any option of proceeding with your Gaza 20 Point Plan and admirable ambition to expand your great achievement — the Abraham Accords, while risking signatories walking away from it.”
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