Former Security Officials to Trump: Put an End to 'Settler Violence'
Approximately 600 former senior officials from the IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet, and the Foreign Service sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of his planned meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning against…
Assessment
Former Israeli security officials, including ex-IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet, and foreign service leaders, are directly petitioning President Trump ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. They frame settler violence in the West Bank as a threat potentially exceeding the October 7 attacks, urging US intervention to halt it. The petition signals an extraordinary breach of internal Israeli consensus on security matters, with officials publicly seeking American leverage against their own government's policy. The key question is how this open appeal will affect Trump's posture in his talks with Netanyahu.