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This document is a compilation of three separate field reports about Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT). The reports argue that the focus on the Israeli state, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas in current policy analysis obscures the existence of important subgroups that will have an impact on future Israeli-Palestinian relations. In addition, the complex role of religion as a vehicle for ideology in both societies is not sufficiently illuminated. In light of this, the reports focus on three tendencies and their role in terms of religious ideology, territory and violence: 1) the Islamist Movement in Israel; 2) the changing nature of Islamist activism in the West Bank; and 3) the presence of members of the Jewish settler movement in the Israeli Defence Forces.