<div style="min-height:510px;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:400;border-bottom-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-top-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;display:flex;flex-direction:row;height:100%;line-height:16px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;width:945px;"><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:400;border-bottom-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-top-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;display:block;line-height:16px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:172.5px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;"><div style="color:rgb(54, 54, 54);font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif;font-size:20px;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:400;border-bottom-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-top-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;display:block;line-height:30px;margin-block-end:15px;margin-block-start:0px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-inline-end:0px;margin-inline-start:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;max-width:100%;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;width:100%;">Now Ben-Gvir was Israel’s national security minister and Smotrich was Israel’s finance minister, charged additionally with overseeing much of the Israeli government’s activities in the West Bank. In December 2022, a day before the new government was sworn in, Netanyahu issued a list of goals and priorities for his new cabinet, including a clear statement that the nationalistic ideology of his new allies was now the government’s guiding star. “The Jewish people,” it said, “have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the land of Israel.”</div><div style="color:rgb(54, 54, 54);font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif;font-size:20px;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:400;border-bottom-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-top-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;display:block;line-height:30px;margin-block-end:15px;margin-block-start:0px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-inline-end:0px;margin-inline-start:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;max-width:100%;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;width:100%;">Two months after that, two Israeli settlers were murdered in an attack by Hamas gunmen near Huwara, a village in the West Bank. The widespread calls for revenge, common after Palestinian terror attacks, were now coming from within Netanyahu’s new government. Smotrich declared that “the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out.”</div><div style="color:rgb(54, 54, 54);font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif;font-size:20px;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:400;border-bottom-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-top-color:rgb(54, 54, 54);border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;display:block;line-height:30px;margin-block-end:0px;margin-block-start:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-inline-end:0px;margin-inline-start:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;max-width:100%;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;width:100%;">And, he added, “I think the State of Israel needs to do it.”</div></div><aside style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:400;align-items:center;border-bottom-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(51, 51, 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