Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir said on Sunday that Israeli forces should shoot Palestinian women and children in Gaza if they get too close to the Israeli border.
“We cannot have women and children getting close to the border… anyone who gets near must get a bullet [in his head],” Ben-Gvir said during an argument with Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi about the IDF’s open fire policies, according to The Jerusalem Post.
After his comments leaked to the press, Ben Gvir doubled down. In a post on X, the Israeli minister said he “does not stutter and does not intend to apologize. All those who endanger our citizens by getting near the border must be shot. This is what they do in any normal state.”
In his role as minister of National Security, Ben Gvir oversees the Israeli police, including the border police. He and Halevi also argued about the IDF cooperating with Israeli police to crack down on protests against humanitarian aid entering Gaza at the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
“You cannot contact the Israel Police commissioner directly,” Ben-Gvir told Halevi during what the Post described as a screaming match. “If you want him, you need to go through me.”
The Israeli police under Ben Gvir had done nothing to stop the protests, which aim to block the aid into Gaza, until the military stepped in. Ben Gvir, who leads the Jewish Power party, and other ministers in Netanyahu’s government, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich oppose allowing aid into the Gaza Strip.
Where’s NA? Israel is so nice….
There are judges at the ICJ who clearly would rather not have to find Israel guilty of genocide. The German judge, for instance, all but said so in his opinion on the preliminary ruling. He felt he had no other option, though, because of the outrageously-blatant statements of genocidal intent by Israeli officials.
Those officials keep making it more difficult for the court to avoid making the increasingly-unavoidable final decision.
The bloodlust is utterly insane.
Israel already does shoot women and children, constantly.
It’s probably in their best interest to continue to do so. When they take on people who actually shoot back. . . well judge for yourself. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUj3w5wrFg
Your site is a trap. Just like your mind for condoning the killing of women and children. I have to do a virus scan. Thanks.
I’m pretty sure it’s a link to a YouTube video from Hindustan times of IDF soldiers crapping their pants when they face someone more menacing than an old lady. At least it is when I click on it.
Israel should simply Napalm the Palestinians in Rafah.
And the rest of Gaza too. Just burn them alive and then plow them under with bulldozers.
Israel should napalm your trailer park.
Seems a waste of munition. Won’t a tornado be along soon enough to do the job ?
Trailer park jokes are only considered amusing because America hates poor people.
Stop it.
Trailer park jokes are only considered amusing because America hates poor people.
Stop it.
Calm down psycho
There is no calming down people like him/her. The basis for thoughts like his/hers is the Holocaust, which the Palestinians had nothing to do with. The Holocaust industry has affected the Jewish population of Israel, save for a few who are blessed for their compassion, to the point they have lost their humanity. Their moral compass. It starts when they are children. The hatred for Palestinians. Miko Peled, former IDF special forces soldier, son of a Israeli general, wrote a book about it. The General’s Son. He was interviewed by Chris Hedges.
It is hatred from the Islamic world that drives hate from Israel towards its enemies-look at the hate cartoons published in the Islamic world.
It’s been a long time since I watched this video. I’m surprised it hasn’t been deleted:
https://youtu.be/93hqlmrZKd8?feature=shared
Wow! I am speechless here. I hope you are kidding.
How do you feel about Tel Aviv getting the Gaza treatment? Do not say it can never happen…unbridled evil always comes to an end.
A new troll rises out of hell to comment on antiwar.com.
Please say this is sarcasm. Otherwise, go fuck yourself.
The vision of what he desired the Zionist Fascists to do is making me physically ill.
It’s not inconsistent with his posts on other sites.
Why did you write that?
Why would you publicly write such a hurtful and ugly image?
Do you not understand how painful and upsetting Israel’s US-enabled mass slaughter of the poor Palestinians already is to antiwar readers?
What is wrong with you?
Why did you write that?
“All those who endanger our citizens by getting near the border must be shot. This is what they do in any normal state.”
No it absolutely isn’t, Ben Gvir & Ben Taketh Away. Most “normal” states long ago realised the better path is to live in neighbourly friendship & cooperation; not hair-trigger paranoia.
“Ben Gvir & Ben Taketh Away”
I know your comment is serious in nature so I feel guilty about laughing at that. But damn.
“We cannot have women and children getting close to the border… anyone who gets near must get a bullet [in his head],” Ben-Gvir said
Waiting for John Kirby’s standard response:
“We’re going to continue to support Israel … And we’re going to continue to make sure they have the tools and the capabilities to do that.”
It will not take long. Then they will parade out our president to drool on the podium, spit spattering the teleprompter.
Isn’t Zionism lovely!
It will be anti semitic to remember this patriotic exhortations
— ““We cannot have women and children getting close to the border… anyone who gets near must get a bullet [in his head],” Ben-Gvir years later . .
People like Ben Givr will be why Israel will fail to exist in ten years if they are not removed. Israeli’s who do not wish to see their country become what apartheid South Africa was need to step up. Hopefully at some point these fiends in the Israeli government and Military will be removed from Uncle Sam’s nipple , and be made to fend for themselves.
Not so. AIPAC has the U.S., and perhaps the rest of the Western world in fear.
AIPAC has way too much undue influence on our parasitic politicians with other lobby’s also exerting negative influence. AIPAC should be “forced” to register has a foreign agent since its goals run counter to American interests, and do much more harm than good.
Exactly. There needs to be a massive petition campaign to push politicians to force AIPAC (and several others) to register as required by FARA. It might not work, just yet, but even if it doesn’t it will make a significant difference in the way Americans view the Israel lobby.
You think a petition, which is in essence a piece of paper will do anything positive? since other (green) pieces of paper in the millions from AIPAC and the MIC have a little more power. I’m not a defeatist, but nobody can come up with a plan that can work to stop the energy money has that is driving us towards WWIII.
I think you may in fact be a defeatist.
Yes, I think a petition with enough signatures, including the signatures of “important” people, might very well do positive things in the context of the current situation. US politicians, especially Democrats, are badly out of sync with their base and they know that lobby money alone might not be enough to get them through the election cycle. They also know that it wouldn’t take much punishment by segments of the base to inflict every bit as much pain in this cycle as the lobby can inflict.
And if the only result of a rebellion by voters against Dems is Dems going down to defeat, that in itself would be a good result, even if, maybe especially if, a second Trump administration turns out to be a total disaster.
Wash. doesn’t even observe the U.S. Constitution, what makes you think they will even care about your petition?
Revolution, it is that simple.
The world would be a better place when the Apartheid state of Israel ceases to exist.
Never again is right now!
Netanyahoo stated that the supreme law of Israel is the Talmud, and the Talmud says it’s ok to do such a thing. One has to understand the metaphysical and eschatological basis of what the Zionist agenda is. It will then make sense, but making sense of the issue will do nothing to stop the ongoing slaughter and genocide, and the bloodthirsty behavior of the believers. Anybody have a plan? I can’t think of anything we as the American people can do because we have put too much faith in the state, which not only ignores the People’s will, but also decency and compassion.
Faced with hatred and slaughter,the Israelis are giving out what for. No angles,only human.
“…like other governments do” Which ones? East Germany no longer exists.
“ Husam Zomlot, ambassador to the UK, has identified the Palestinian girl who was found hanging from a wall in Gaza, half of her body severed, as his wife’s cousin.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/14/israels-war-on-gaza-live-afraid-to-leave-as-israel-fires-on-hospital?update=2708802
That news broke my heart. Such sweet innocent children murdered by Israel simply for existing.
Were not not the murdered Israeli children just as deserving of life?
Obviously. I value the life of a Palestinian equal to that of an Israeli. I’m not a Zionist.
They have already implemented that plan since day one. It’s not a coincidence that majority of those who are killed are children and women. It’s a systemic genocidal policy to target children and women to eliminate the next generations and women who would give birth to the new generations.
Extensive sniper training through the years.
I am thinking it’s more the case that they prefer to shoot at people who can’t shoot back. They don’t seem to fare to well against those who can. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUj3w5wrFg
Just shows that hate breeds hate.
Yes, your brother in arms andrewp111 graced us with a rather mildly worded example of that. Palestinian children write things like: “Like other children in the camp, I want to complete my education so I can build a good future for myself and help my family and the people in the camp improve their lives. As a Palestine refugee, I want to live in peace like the rest of the world’s children. We want our rights, we want to live in freedom, peace and security, and we want to go to school in peace and without fear.”
And we have the statements of Israeli lawmakers, military leaders, doctors – who want hospitals attacked, and Zionist supporters world wide to document indeed to what extent they hate that, want them shot, napalmed, hungered to death, bombed, killed in a way that statisfies their personal sadism most. The hate it breeds indeed. The smallest fraction of which brought before the ICJ has already cornered some of their judges into ruling they desperately seek to avoid. Sad to say no news value there.