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Everywhere you look, there are calls for revenge, and those calls are coming from the top,” Green said, referring to the rightwing extremists in the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s hardline national security minister, last week ordered 10,000 assault rifles to be distributed among occupied West Bank settlements and to Jews living in cities with mixed Israeli and Palestinian populations, including 4,000 that were distributed immediately.

“There are crazy religious people who actively want to open new fronts in these dangerous times. They are trying to inflame the entire region,” one citizen said.