The Dutch far-right leader met Israel's defense and foreign ministers. His visit was hosted by a settler leader whom the Dutch parliament has urged be sanctioned and who took Wilders to several West Bank settlements, including one reestablished this year

Negotiations are still underway among Hadash, Balad, and Ta'al to form a joint electoral list, while MK Mansour Abbas announced that the UAL now functions independently of the Islamic movement, though many of its members remain active in the party

I'll be voting in the October 27 general election not because Israel is a democracy but because voting is a tool for survival