Now the army is gearing up to launch a wide-scale military operation across the entire West Bank in tandem with the ongoing pogroms. Palestinian society in the West Bank wasn’t always so defenseless. What brought Palestinians in the West Bank to this point? Taking apart the infrastructure of resistanceForty years ago, the West Bank looked very different. “The Palestinian people have always demonstrated their capacity to stand strong, and Palestinians are currently standing strong in the West Bank, facing the Israeli assault.”