Since October 7, Israel has doubled down on its efforts to build and arm a quasi-military force of settlers in the occupied West Bank. But the creation of an ideologically driven militia of settlers could backfire dangerously. Clad in either sandals or sneakers alongside Israeli army fatigues, carrying automatic rifles and ferried around the occupied West Bank in militaristic cars with yellow flasher lights, the Settlement Emergency Squads — known as Kitat Konenut in Hebrew — are not a new invention. They have been around since the 1970s. But a new report from the political violence monitor Ar…