In Netanyahu’s Israel, from fiery riots to boardroom bedlam, chaos reigns

At 4:08 p.m. on Sunday, journalist Yossi Yehoshua tweeted a poster produced by a group of extremist settlers who called for a mass march on the Palestinian town of Huwara, where two young Israelis had been shot and killed by a terrorist a few hours earlier.

The poster laid out the purpose of the march with perfect clarity. In large letters at the top, it read, “We demand victory! We demand revenge! We demand fighting back!”

The march on Huwara was called for 6 p.m., to be followed at 7 by “protests around Nablus, the city of murderers.”

Yehoshua, the military analyst for the Yedioth Aharonoth daily, noted the obvious when he warned that the march would be “a complex security challenge for the IDF.”

Yet what was obvious for Yehoshua two hours before the march was apparently less obvious to the military commanders in the area even two hours after it began. READ MORE