Israel’s far-right Finance MinisterBezalel Smotrich has advocated for the creation of a Jewish state that would encompass all Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab territories, including the Syrian capital of Damascus. Smotrich, in an interview for the Arte documentary ‘Israel: Extremists in Power’, said he hopes to expand Israel’s borders deep into Arab land, according to Jewish scripture. “It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus,” he was quoted as saying. This Jewish state, he said, must extend into Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, hi…