![In the top half of the photo, a large and concentrated amount of white apartment buildings engulf the top half of a tall and wide hill in the photo’s view. Part of the large hill below the buildings is undeveloped and rocky land. In the forefront, and lower half of the photo, a smaller hill is majority undeveloped land, composed of brownish-yellowish rocky terrain with a bit of grass and speckled with a couple of one to three floor buildings. It looks like there are layers in the hill which are most likely roads paved into the hillside. Some trees speckle the undeveloped parts of both hills.](https://tempestmag.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/seymour_feature-700x476.jpg)
Gone is the law of the universe, scattered by frivolous fate
Israel’s surge of violence
by Richard SeymourRecent Israeli attacks in the West Bank follow a year of military escalation. Richard Seymour finds the roots of this surge in Palestinian resistance and Israeli class politics.