Jerusalem bus shooting will exacerbate already high tensions between Israelis and Palestinians A few hours after this attack, and Ramot Junction was getting back to normal. The bodies had been removed, the wounded were being treated in hospital, and pools of blood had been scrubbed and washed away. But the shockwaves will linger and reverberate. Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians are already very high, and this will only exacerbate that. Put simply, there are those in the Israeli cabinet who believe that Israel should do everything it can to subordinate the Palestinians, including effectively annexing both Gaza and the West Bank. Among them are Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister.
