‘50 years of crime without punishment’: New report details how Israel’s politics were hijacked by extremist settler ideology

A history of unpunished violence in the West Bank has propelled extremist Israeli settlers from the fringe to the mainstream of Israeli political power. A new investigation from Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti in the New York Times Magazine chronicles how Israeli extremists came into power, weakening the country’s democracy. “It proved to lead Israel to the point of great weakness,” Bergman says.