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De Standaard fears further expansion of the settlements and more violence from the settlers: “The Netanyahu government is doing everything it can to erode the countervailing power of the rule of law with new laws, so that there is nothing left to stop the coalition from building more than 10,000 new illegal settlements and violent settlers will not have to worry about punishment. If this plan succeeds, the world could be confronted with a dreadful Israel, as recently described by the well-known author Yuval Noah Harari: a state with enormous military and a nuclear apparatus in the hands of extremist hardliners which can oppress the Palestinian community with even less restraints and more brutality than before.”