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Israeli settlers strengthen ties with US Republican religious right

Ruth Lieberman, a Jewish settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is determined to fend off international pressure for a sovereign Palestinian state. And her friendships with prominent US Republicans on the party’s religious right help, she says. Weeks after the Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Lieberman hosted pro-Israel conservative Sen. Mike Lee, a Mormon, for a Shabbat meal at her family’s home, according to Senate records. The conversation turned to Palestinian statehood, and Lieberman told Lee that the attack had hardened Israeli opposition to the idea, she said in an interview from her home near Bethlehem