The war for the West Bank isn't starting with a bang. It’s starting with a signature.

Step inside the sterile, air-conditioned corridors of the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, where the most dangerous weapon in the room isn't a tank—it’s a pen. For sixty years, the land registry in the West Bank has been frozen in time, a "Wild West" of undefined ownership maintained by military order.

But today, the freeze ends.

In Chapter 1, witness the high-stakes political maneuvering as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Justice Minister Yariv Levin present a proposal that looks like boring bureaucracy but cuts like a knife. They call it "good governance" and "transparency". They claim it is a "vital security measure" to stop the Palestinian Authority from seizing land.

But the critics know t ...