On Thursday, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank, which will “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”. He added that “there is nothing to recognise and no one to recognise” and that “this is Zionism at its best”. Photo: AFP

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