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Lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich wants Israel to annex the West Bank, calls gays ‘abnormal’ and thinks the burning to death of a Palestinian family was not a terror attack because it was done by Jews.
Blue-eyed Bezalel Smotrich, 35, is good with words. An increasingly noticeable figure on the far right – he eschews the term “extreme” – Smotrich is not one to stumble when he speaks. No “uhms” or “you knows” from this handsome father of five with the perennial five o’clock stubble and the big knitted kippa on his head.
Indeed, Smotrich, a settler and former youth activist who studied law and plays classical piano, and was elected to parliament last year on the nationalist religious Habayit Hayehudi’s roster – today he serves as the Knesset’s deputy speaker – is the kind of person who is very calculated with language …. http://www.haaretz.com