Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that it might be “moral and justified” for Israel to starve to death two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but said it couldn’t due to international pressure.
“We are bringing in aid because there is no choice,” Smotrich said at a conference hosted by Israel Hayom, according to The Times of Israel. “We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned.”
Smotrich continued, “Humanitarianism in exchange for humanitarianism is morally justified — but what can we do? We live today in a certain reality, we need international legitimacy for this war.”
Smotrich is often portrayed as a fringe extremist in Israeli politics, but he has significant power as the finance minister and also holds a position in the Defense Ministry that puts him in charge of West Bank settlements. His threats to quit the government if a hostage deal is reached with Hamas is one reason why the onslaught in Gaza has continued.
Genocidal rhetoric from Israeli officials has been used as evidence in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). When Israel first imposed a full siege on Gaza following October 7, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the Israeli military was fighting “human animals.”
While Israel has allowed some aid to enter Gaza, it has only been a trickle, and the majority of Palestinians are facing severe food shortages. Diseases are also rapidly spreading as the civilian infrastructure has been shattered by the Israeli bombardment.
For some reason I thought about Aaron Bushnell again.
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2055957
It helps to be reminded that there are people who are good, decent and of strong character as a balance to the monsters in our midst.
Fringe elements don't sit in cabinet meetings.
Sorry, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus, but there sure as hell are monsters.
Still "ironclad" and "unwavering". Doesn't matter what they say or do.
Yet, if the same was done to Jews, it would be called a holocaust.
“Children live what they learn”?……..
Yet, they are called “chosen”?…………..
And we love them.
Death to Israel!
Had this been made by any one the whole world would be up in arms, condemning , and call for his resignation. Palestinians are Semitic to therefore this antisemitism.
Not the first nor the last to express his true stand on the issue.
Supremacism breeds the contempt for other, “inferior humans”, and compassion does not apply to them. This is why all societies with colonial heretage are most often sypatethic to Israel’s colonist-settler struggle. After all, inferior beings are not deserving to live, and must give way to superior beings.
This mind set opens the gates of hell. The true demonic nature comes out and the mask of humanity crumbles.
Carry garlic in your pockets.
I think garlic only works against Vampires not Demons.
Demons do exist.
This is a Nazi. The US has an obligation to stop him, since the US has caused him to have the power to do the harm he does. When a nation's blunders empower a Hitler, then it must stop that Hitler.