Internal Israeli disputes over security policy resurfaced last week after Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, and the Israeli army’s Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, made their differences public over the appointment of the head of the army’s central command overseeing the West Bank. Katz’s announcement came amid a larger controversy over Bluth’s decision to arrest an Israeli settler accused of brutalizing a Palestinian farmer in Khirbet Humsa, a village near Tubas in the northeastern West Bank. “Avi Bluth, the head of the Israeli army’s central command, is himself a right-wing supporter of settlers,” Razi Nabulse explained. Nabulse notes that the real struggle is over control of the army’s institutions and who dictates its policy. Beyond individual ideological stands and individual figures, Israeli institutions are at the center of a rift between different tendencies, which resurfaces during elections.