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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Simon Speakman Cordall

Are settler politics running unchecked in Israel?

Bezalel Smotrich, second from left, visits the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021. Plans are under way to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah to give them to Israeli settlers [Sebastian Scheiner/AP Photo]

In Israel, the far right is increasingly influential in politics, with a government reliant for its existence on a settler movement driving an ever-more extreme agenda.

Analysts point out that settler and ultra-right-wing voices have come to dominate the cabinet, providing legal and political cover for even more expansion into internationally recognised Palestinian territory, and underpinning much of the ferocity of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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