New Delhi, June 9 -- Three weeks ago, France barred National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from its territory. On Tuesday, it did the same to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Taken together, the two bans close France's borders to the men who, more than anyone else in the Israeli government, have driven the push to annex the occupied West Bank, re-establish settlements in Gaza, and dismantle the conditions under which a Palestinian state could ever emerge. Benjamin Netanyahu still travels freely. But the ideological engine of his coalition does not.

six governments acting together - and extends beyond Smotrich to four leaders of settler organisations and 21 settlers identified as perpetrators of violence against Palestinian civilian...