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Dershowitz: Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are making it harder to defend Israel

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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 03: Alan Dershowitz attends Hulu Presents "Triumph's Election Special" produced by Funny Or Die at NEP Studios on February 3, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu)
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 28: Far right Israeli lawmaker and 'Noam' Party leader Avi Maoz speaks to the press before a party meeting on November 28, 2022 in Jerusalem, Israel. An alliance led by the party of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won comfortably in the recent parliamentary election, the country's fifth in under four years. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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Outrage as far-right MK claims forms of ‘liberal religion’ are ‘darkness’

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Naftali Bennett sues rabbi who claimed ex-PM’s mother is not Jewish
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 10, 2019. - Nudged by rightwing political rivals after a deadly Palestinian attack on a young Israeli woman, Netanyahu who seeks re-election pledged today to freeze money transfers to the Palestinian Authority. (Photo by GALI TIBBON / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
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