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A movement unmoved by UN resolutions
Christa Case Bryant
Critics accuse Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of seeking to effectively sever the West Bank in two, dashing any hope of a viable Palestinian state, and he has no wish to deny it. As he welcomed the approval of a long-delayed settlement project in the middle of the territory Wednesday, he said, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a significant step that practically erases the two-state delusion and consolidates the Jewish people鈥檚 hold on the heart of the Land of Israel.鈥�
Mr. Smotrich springs from the religious Zionist movement, which sees such settlement in the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria as a prerequisite to the coming of the Messiah. This is a movement unmoved by United Nations resolutions. And it is growing. Today, we profile one of its most politically influential leaders.
