Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 12/2008

PolicyWatch #1434: Violence by Extremists in the Jewish Settler Movement: A Rising Challenge

Matthew Levitt, Becca Wasser

November 2008

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

Thirteen years after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli security officials are expressing heightened concern that a new wave of violent extremism among fringe elements in the Jewish settler movement threatens not only Palestinian civilians, but also Israeli national security and the future of any potential peace diplomacy.