Middle East News: Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a leader of the settlement movement, has taken steps to solidify Israel's control over the occupied West B
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ASA’EL, West Bank With attention focused on its contentious judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly taken unprecedented steps toward cementing Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank perhaps permanently. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a leader of the settlement movement, assumed new powers over the occupied territory in his coalition…