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Bezalel Smotrich](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/who-are-bezalel-smotrich-and-itamar-ben-gvir-the-israeli-ministers-facing-sanctions)’s tirade against Merz, in which he made reference to the Nazi regime and said: “You will not force us into ghettos again.” The row, which erupted after the chancellor
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a map that shows the E1 settlement project that would essentially end hopes of a Palestinian state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [File: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP] “This is nothing,” Orly