Israel has decided to cut off funding for unsanctioned settlement outposts in the West Bank after a series of clashes between Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces. The decision applies to more than 100 so-called “wildcat” colonies that have been built on Palestinian land in the West Bank. Tension between the settlers and the Israeli government has deteriorated in recent weeks. One rabbi at at a settlement in the West Bank compared the Israeli security forces to “the Nazis in Poland” during World War II. Meanwhile, the head of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet told the cabinet he is “extremely worried” that right-wing extremists may attempt to carry out assassinations ahead of general elections in February. One Israeli cabinet minister said, “The settlers don’t think like us. Their thought is messianic, mystic, satanic and irrational.” November 10th marks the thirteenth anniversary of the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated at a Tel Aviv peace rally by a Jewish extremist.