@JonChevreau
Yes, the commentary is well thought out but it glosses over too much of the problem settlers were causeing before Bibi ascended. Settlers simply got more violent with Netanyahu than they were before.

There's also the matter that Israel showed divisionary weakness before Netanyahu with a number of coalition governments that couldn't stick together and resulted in too-frequent elections for PM.

Last year i24News reported on Israelis moving out of Israel and into Portugal because the cost of living had gotten to be too much but you can't be surprised when a country counts all Jews as having automatic citizenship making demand for real estate that doesn't cover enough square footage to meet demand.

And so Israel's land grab via settlers continues because of just the demand pressure alone, nevermind all the religious excuses to covet their neighbor's posessions, so Moses' Comandments be damned.