Netanyahu government relies solely on force, with no clear strategy or diplomatic vision

Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow at MENAP, Chatham House, offers in-depth analysis of Israel’s latest military operation in the occupied West Bank. He warns that the operation isn’t an isolated security raid, but as part of a broader objective: build on earlier operations in locations such as Jenin, fostering mass displacement, destruction, intensifying a system of collective pressure on an already oppressed population. Mekelberg argues the operation reflects the logic of Israel’s most far‑right government in the Jewish state’s history. They encourage settler‑backed extremism where extreme force, not diplomacy, remains the “modus operandi.”