The provocations by Israeli settlers and acts of violence by "extremists," supposedly with mental problems, are a direct result of the expansionist policies of the current government, as well as the previous Labor Party regimes. Netanyahu is following his predecessors, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, albeit in a more in-your-face fashion.
In fact, Rabin the "peacemaker" participated in driving 50,000 Palestinians out of their homes at gunpoint during the Zionist army's 1948 war of conquest against Palestine. As Israel's army chief of staff, he led the 1967 war against Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria, which seized the Golan Heights, the West Bank, Gaza, and a large part of the Sinai Peninsula.
Israel, set up by London and Washington as a colonial- settler state to police and subjugate the toilers in the Middle East, will continue to confront rising resistance from Palestinians fighting occupation and Hezbollah guerrillas fighting to push the Israeli military out of southern Lebanon. Hallelujah! As the polarization deepens inside Israel, the rulers have, and will face more actions involving Israeli and Arab workers protesting against austerity measures and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
There will be no peace in the Mideast until the Zionist army is withdrawn from all the occupied territories and Palestinians win self-determination. Working people around the world should demand Tel Aviv remove its military forces from the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and southern Lebanon. We should also protest the bombing of Lebanon and demand Washington end all aid to the Israeli regime now.