Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe last few weeks in the occupied Palestinian territories have been marked by some of the most extreme violence we’ve seen in recent times.This current wave started on Sunday June 18, when the Israeli government removed many of the existing bureaucratic obstacles for authorizing the construction of new settlements and gave most of the power of approval to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich–a renowned racist and leader of the settler movement.The week