A friendly amendment to Bezalel Smotrich's plan for Gaza

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has emerged as one of the most consequential voices in the nation’s politics. His latest and most ambitious proposal is a public call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to occupy and settle the Gaza Strip.

In his own words: “We must establish Israeli control over the entire territory and rebuild Jewish settlements there. History has proven for a hundred years: where the plow passes, there the border and security pass. The war for our rebirth must end with the expansion of Israel’s borders.”