一位前以色列政治顾问在客座文章中主张，对定居者针对巴勒斯坦人的暴力行为的警告置若罔闻，“助长了一个充满恐怖、屠杀、抢劫和谋杀的蛮荒西岸”。
尼姆罗德·诺维克主张，定居者的暴力行为损害了以色列的安全、其道德根基及其国际地位。
A failure to heed warnings against settler violence against Palestinians “has helped create a Wild West Bank of terror, pogroms, looting and murder”, argues a former Israeli political adviser in a guest essay Settler violence undermines Israel’s security, its moral fabric and its global standing, argues Nimrod Novik