On the morning after Donald Trump’s election victory, Israeli education minister Naftali Bennett declared: “The era of a Palestinian state is over.”

Moves this week by “emboldened” right-wing Israeli politicians offer evidence to support that statement.

The Washington Post reports:

“Trump’s spirit certainly hovers over this law,” Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport wrote on Monday.

The vote drew condemnation from the U.S. State Department, whose director for press operations Elizabeth Trudeau said Monday: “This legislation would be a dramatic advancement of the settlement enterprise, which is already gravely endangering the prospects for a two-state solution.”

Trudeau further told reporters that the bill “could pave the way for the legalization of dozens of illegal outposts deep in the West Bank” and “would represent an unprecedented and troubling step that is inconsistent with prior Israeli legal opinion and breaks non-standing Israeli policy of not building on private Palestinian land.”

But as Rapoport and others have noted, “what is at stake is much more than the fate of a few hundreds houses built on private Palestinian lands.”

Rapoport pointed to the writings of right-wing pundit Caroline Glick, whose central argument he summarizes as such: “Israel should extend its full sovereignty and law all over the West Bank.” (Glick, for her part, on Tuesday wrote of Trump’s presidency that “if we play our cards right, like the American people, Israel stands to gain in ways we never dreamed of.”)