Editing Gush Emunim (section)

===Political impact===
The overall practical aim of preventing territorial compromise and annexation of occupied territories has only partly been accomplished. Prominent failures include the demolishing and evacuation of settlements in the [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai peninsula]] following the [[Camp David Accords]], the phased transfer of jurisdiction to the [[Palestinian Authority]] in the West Bank as part of the [[Oslo Accords]], and the 2005 [[Israeli disengagement from Gaza|Gaza Disengagement]].{{Citation needed |date= October 2024 }}

Gush Emunim and its successors have successfully attracted billions of US dollars for the building and supporting of settlements. The 2005 [[Sasson Report]] revealed that the [[Ministry of Housing (Israel)|Ministry of Housing]], the [[Ministry of Defense (Israel)|Ministry of Defense]] and the [[World Zionist Organization]] spent millions of shekels to support illegal outposts. Between 2013 and 2015, Amana received government funding of approximately 100 million shekels ($29 million).<ref>{{Cite news |title= Settlement group will need High Court consent to get funding |newspaper= Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-settlement-group-will-need-high-court-consent-to-get-funding-1.8344649 |access-date= 30 April 2021}}</ref> On 31 December 2019, the [[Israeli High Court of Justice]] decided that any government donations to the executive branch of the settler movement required approval from the court.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Breakthrough: Funding For Amana Will Now Be Overseen By The High Court Until A Verdict |date=31 December 2019 |website=[[Peace Now]] |url= https://peacenow.org.il/en/breakthrough-funding-amana-will-now-be-overseen-by-the-high-court-until-a-verdict |access-date=30 April 2021}}</ref>

The settler movement has successfully appealed to sentiments related to Israeli identity, making it difficult for government officials and political leaders on the right to distance themselves from the settlers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Mendelsohn |first= Barak |title=State Authority in the Balance: The Israeli State and the Messianic Settler Movement |date=1 December 2014 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12159|journal=[[International Studies Review]] |volume= 16 |issue= 4 |pages= 499–521 |doi= 10.1111/misr.12159 |issn= 1521-9488|url-access= subscription }}</ref> Support for the settlement project has become mainstream in the [[US Republican Party]],{{Citation needed |date= June 2024}} and almost all parties on the right of the political spectrum in Israel have settlers within its leadership.<ref>Hirsch-Hoefler & Mudde (2020), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ln-QzQEACAAJ&pg=PA223 223].</ref><ref>Newman (2005), pp. 192–224, 204.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1= Zertal |first1= Idith |author-link1= Idith Zertal |last2= Eldar |first2= Akiva |author-link2= Akiva Eldar |title= Lords of the land: the war over Israel's settlements in the occupied territories, 1967-2007 |year= 2009 |orig-year= 2005 |publisher= Nation Books |location= New York |page= 235 |translator= Vivian Sohn Eden |isbn=978-0-786-74485-5 |edition= 1st |oclc= 694096363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rds_DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA235
}} Page failed verification, 26 April 2025 (but edition is not the 1st).</ref> Settlers have been disproportionately represented in government positions. The 2013 government was dubbed the 'settler government' in a ''[[Haaretz]]'' editorial, due to the number of officials associated with the settler movement in powerful positions within the ministries of Housing and Defense.<ref>{{Cite news |title= The emergence of Israel's settler government |url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-editorial-settler-government-emerges-1.5234627 |access-date= 30 April 2021 |newspaper= Haaretz}}</ref> In October 2017, under the leadership of [[Israeli Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], [[Pinchas Wallerstein]], one of the founders of Gush Emunim, was appointed to head a new government committee created for the purpose of legalising illegal outposts and other types of unauthorised settlements in the West Bank.{{Citation needed |date= October 2024 }}