Bezalel Smotrich, the extremist Israeli finance minister who’s been given sweeping powers over the West Bank, has said the occupied territory is home to “2 million Nazis,” referring to part of the Palestinian population.
It’s estimated that around 3 million Palestinians live in the West Bank. The Times of Israel reported that Smotrich made the comments in an apparent reference to two polls that found two-thirds of West Bank Palestinians supported the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. However, the polls that were referenced surveyed Palestinians living in both Gaza and the West Bank.
The polls also came after weeks of Israel’s brutal bombing campaign and ground incursion into Gaza, as well as a significant uptick in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Based on polling, Hamas did not have much support before October 7 and the Israeli bombardment that ensued. A poll conducted on October 6 found that 67% of Palestinians in Gaza either had “no trust at all” (44 percent) or “not a lot of trust” (23 percent) in Hamas. The same poll found that 73% of Gazans favored a peaceful solution to the conflict with Israel.
Smotrich, the leader of the Religious Zionism Party, also referenced “Nazis” in the West Bank in comments on X in response to a Fatah official saying the October 7 Hamas attack didn’t happen in a vacuum. “A reminder to those who have not yet sobered up and think that the Nazis in Judea and Samaria are different from the Nazis in Gaza,” Smotrich said, according to Middle East Eye.
Smotrich, a West Bank settler himself, serves as the finance minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government but was also given a position in the Defense Ministry, where he has the power to approve new settlement construction and make it even more difficult for Palestinians to build new homes.
Describing the views of Smotrich, the AP reported earlier this year that the politician and his supporters “envision a single state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in which Palestinians can live quietly with second-class status or leave.”
As a new Knesset member in 2017, Smotrich published a paper outlining an idea for the full Israeli annexation of the West Bank called the “Decisive Plan.” The plan essentially gives Palestinians three options: leave the West Bank for an Arab country, accept Israeli rule, or resist and be killed.
Israel seems to be going the way of Nazi Germany… Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive………………………………
And so Hamas and Russia which you support.
Funny you support Ukraine’s right to resist to Russia but expect Palestinians to capitulate.
he also does not support Crimea’s right to resist Ukraine
Or the Donbas and Lugansk to resist Kiev.
Over time the weapons have changed not the hubris. This time around it could be the end of Israel, even with conventional weapons. Hubris helped to make enemies all around Israel, the same is true for the US, extorting allies will not make friends. The EU and NATO are not likely to survive, nothing but ruins will be all that is left. Israel would look like Gaza. They would fight till the last man standing, like Ukraine. Would it be worth it?
This guy is a poster child for BDS .. disgusting POS.
And so long as there is a federal government, you and I will be supporting him
I’VE NO IDEA WHY WE TRY…
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“three options: leave the West Bank for an Arab country, accept Israeli rule, or resist and be killed.”
Hmmm, the “accept Israeli rule” bit, does that come with full citizenship with equal rights?
We both know the answer to that question: second-class status at best and isolation in a ghetto territory with zero resources.
But Smotrich would really prefer that they move away entirely, or simply die.
i’m sure that it was a rhetorical question
Nope. Just occupation and rule by the Zionists. As before.
These types of statements are a sign of weakness and desperation. Wise Israelis have counseled for decades against the annexation policies warning these policies would never bring peace nor security to Israelis. They were right.
Projection is the sign of a morally weak position. He knows full well that the actions of Israel during the 16 year of the blockade mirror what the NAZIs did in Germany and Poland. He is loving it, as any good SS Officer would, just like the guards at the camps. Ironic, isn’t it?
Calling your adversaries Nazis, Communists or whatever makes it easier for psychopaths to accept the killing of innocent men women and children.
Who or what is a terrorist: Lowkey:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzhiPPq7Gak
Self portrait to a tee.
I’m sure you have noticed too that whatever the collective “west” charges “others” with is in fact what they are doing themselves … it’s like a reflex action or something.
“Israeli Minister in Charge of West Bank Says Territory Is Home to ‘2 Million Nazis’” Will Biden send them Ukraine’s money? …I DID NAZI THAT!
He is one of the illegal extremist settlers on the WB.
If the poll on Hamas in Gaza is correct, then”getting rid of Hamas” can and should be done with free elections in Gaza.
According to former president Carter, Hamas was elected free and fair in 2006.
Yes, they were elected free and fair in 2006, after Israel and the US insisted on elections, expecting Fatah to win easily and Gaza to remain under their thumb under their pet PA.
On the other hand, since Hamas took power it hasn’t allowed subsequent elections and as recently as July was having to violently suppress protests against its misrule and publicly execute dissidents. No wonder it wanted a distraction.
I agree with your first paragraph, the 2nd is debatable.
Thomas, all I know is that immediately after the election Israel and the US imposed sanctions, Hamas was never in control of anything. When the Israelis pulled out from Gaza they imposed restrictions from outside of Gaza making sure they could not develop an economy inside Gaza.
The purpose of sanctions is to prevent any economy to develop. See Cuba and Venezuela.
Yes, as soon as they didn’t get the outcome they wanted and expected, they imposed sanctions.
But it’s not “debatable” that Hamas has been a repressive regime in Gaza — suppressing protests, executing dissidents, and refusing to hold elections.
Is it possible/debatable that they would have won elections, if they’d allowed elections? Yes. But they haven’t allowed elections. That’s just a fact.
Has Hamas been MAXIMALLY repressive? No. At points they’ve considered requiring women to go covered head to toe in public, outlawing music in public, etc. a la the Taliban, but have backed off of that because they recognized that the Palestinian public is less fundamentalist-Islam oriented and didn’t want to be overthrown. But they’ve been very clear that their policy for Gaza and ambition for all Palestine is an Islamic theocracy.
You are right , but basically they had to cope with unusual conditions, the Fatah and corrupt Abbas served Israeli interests, they were unable to stop a single settlement, or protected their children from IDF soldiers who killed and disabled and incarcerated thousands of Palestinian women and children without any legal procedures for years. I am amazed how inventive the Zionists are to come up with new ways to torture the Palestinians, like banning them from being happy and celebrate in public about the homecoming of their people including women and children. What monsters are these so-called Israeli Zionists, the Likud people?
I can’t comprehend that people in government are that evil.
Thomas as soon as Hamas was elected the Zionists blockaded Gaza in order to eliminate the elected government. Sanctions are there to destabilize a society, after all. I have to take my hat off in respect that after 17 years the psychopaths’ in Tel Aviv were unable to do it. And now Hamas is stronger than ever, Abbas is just a corrupt Israeli vassal. Such is life, politics.
Americans by now should know, Biden has a lifetime experience with sanctions. Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Russia and many other states in Latin America it did not work out, sanctions and regime changes failed. Biden never grew in the WH, he never said a word of wisdom, he is now deranged but was always a limited man after money and pomp that comes with the job.
The USA and Israel have become pariah nations as was to be expected.
Yes, I’m well aware of the blockade, etc. The Israeli government almost certainly — and as a matter of policy — helped Hamas hold on to power for far longer than it otherwise would have. As bad as Hamas is, they could always point to the Israelis as being worse. That seemed to not be working anymore earlier this year, so a war was called for to refocus Gazans’ attention on Israel instead of on overthrowing Hamas.
Hamas and other militia are resistance movements, the pressure in the kettle was enormous, it blew the valve.
It will take rational, sane people with character and decency to negotiate for years to come to bring peace to the ME, not just Israel. Netanyahu and the Zionists and Biden and the neocons must go.
I for one can’t see any rational, sane people with character, maybe there are some in hiding, I hope so.
By saying nothing Biden in effect accepts these statements and in so doing he admits that he understands the real meaning of Zionism. Perhaps he fears being smeared as antisemitic, so he keeps quiet.
Indeed … and not for the first time.
The word coward comes to mind, but then I’m just old and old-fashioned.
Biden and his people are pro-Zionists, complicit in the massacre of the Palestinian people.
“Bezalel Smotrich, leader of Israel’s Religious Zionist Party and the current finance minister: The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto,” Smotrich said in 2015.
Fucking clown.
Fucking war criminal.
Hamas is a legal resistance organization, no matter how often they call them terrorists, they were called Partisans in France fighting the German Wehrmacht.
This Nazi argument has become a new talking. Nazis weren’t so bad; Palestinians are worse somehow.
Despicable talking point by the Israeli government and its supporters.
The Israeli government is despicable.
Israel learning from Russians. Call your enemies Nazis in hopes of gaining support for your invasion which is stupid cause the 7 Oct attack gave them a lot of support. But let be honest, if Palestinians and Hamas had it their way, they would complete the final solution project.
Who knows, maybe Israel will jump in the annexation wagon too but the large scale one. The hypocrite bunch that support Russia here should be supporting Israel. Oh no, the US ruined your narrative. 🤣
It’s hilarious that you justify Israeli aggression by stereotyping the entire Palestinian population.
A population you never had contact within any significance.
i think that he gets paid to say sh*t like that
He is one of three: Julio, Jake, Tim Burns. It would appear that they are one and the same. Same rhetoric.
There are probably a billion people on the planet using the “same rhetoric.” Why should it be surprising that more than one of them have found their way here?
The Palestinians are the victims, the Zionists are the Nazis and they may well end like the Nazis did.
Using terms such as nazis, antisemitic to label Israel’s enemies and critics has became very much hackneyed.
I didn’t realize there were that many Settlers in the West Bank!
700,000
They shot a Palestinian kid for celebrating the release of Palestinian hostages. They left premature infants connected to ventilators to die, forcing evacuation of doctors and everyone from a hospital, where those babies perished and decomposed. This is pure evil. This what the US said “ has the right to exist”.
Israel’s Savagery Is So Shocking It’s Sometimes Hard To Take In
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/11/30/israels-savagery-is-so-shocking-its-sometimes-hard-to-take-in/
It isn’t hard to imagine humans being cruel, we have a history. What I fund the hardest to comprehend, is the seemingly normal humans who have choosen their ‘team’ and repeat the excuses for straight up genocide, not to mention the things in that article. I had more faith in humanity, but apparently our civilization is rotten to the core.
I don’t know what to think of so much brutality. Am I crazy when I think that gassing people may have been more humane than what they are doing to the Palestinian people? About 2/3 of the unarmed population are women and children. How many of them have died a long and painful death under the rubble of their homes? Hungry and dehydrated babies and no medication, women giving birth in the open, streets or parking lots, just were they happen to be without any sanitation, not even clean water.
Just to see the bodies wrapped in white sheets and the small bodies of the children in white sheets attached to the dead parents is more than I can take. Am I crazy or am I just human?
All of it is terrible. It comes from the same psychopathic place of sadism and supremacy.
That deputy mayor is quite the piece of work. “Part of the deal” my ass.
Is “work” a nice euphemism for “shit”? Nah, even that is too good for her.
Yes and yes.
yes, Heinrich Himmler would totally be welcomed with open arms by them, wouldn’t he
Heinrich Himmler was a good God-fearing Christian family man (to his wife)
And countless NAZIS in Israel .
United Nation Security Council 242 in 1967 asked Israel to withdraw from all territories it occupied during the June 4, Six Day War.
United Nations Security Council resolutions are binding.
I guess it’s a little easier to shoot a nine year old Palestinian boy dead for throwing stones if you see him as Heinrich Himmler.
The spelling of his first name is incorrect. It is BEELZEBUB………..
LOL, if there were three million Nazis in the West Bank, everyone would know.
The Biden neocons and company are extremists as are the Zionist extremists.
Are they human?