Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election provides an “important opportunity” for Israel to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank.
“The year 2025 will be, with God’s help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” Smotrich said, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
The Israeli minister said he had “no doubt that President Trump, who showed courage and determination in his decisions in the first term, will support the State of Israel in this move.”
Smotrich listed steps Trump took to support Israel during his first term in office, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, and declaring that illegal Israeli settlements were consistent with international law.
Smotrich, a settler himself, also holds a position in the Defense Ministry that puts him in charge of settlement expansion in the West Bank. In that post, Smotrich has overseen significant settlement expansion and the single largest Israeli land grab in the West Bank in 30 years.
Smotrich may have a strong ally in the incoming US administration if David Friedman, Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, returns. Friedman just recently published a book calling for the US to fund Israel’s annexation of the West Bank to the tune of $1 billion.
Many ministers in Israel’s government, including Smotrich, also support re-establishing Jewish settlements in Gaza, and Israeli forces are currently conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign in the northern portion of the Strip to make that a reality.
There appears to be no limit to this madness…
The Tanakh faithful Zionists of Israel take the Torah (Bereshit 12:1, 12:7) literally in order to imperialistically conquer the ‘promised land’, break international public law and organise war crimes.
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8176/jewish/Chapter-12.htm
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/336880?lang=bi On the Far Side of the Jordan
https://www.jpost.com
Israel is contemplating its next move…
Surely, Iran is fully prepared to handle it…
Well, with the 2-state solution dead and buried with tens of thousands of Gaza and W Bank Palestinians, the best solution available might be to take Smotrich up on the "offer": ok, Israel, you get the strip and the W bank; but you have to provide full and equal citizenship to all residents of your territory.
Go for it!
But that's not at all the plan: Israel has already issued "Nüremberg laws" against "Israeli Arabs" (Palestinians with Israeli "citizenship"), which allow the genocidal state to deport anyone (any non-Jewish one) on the grounds of "treason". The only solution is Palestine from the river to the sea. And we will see that happening soon, bc Israel is self-destroying.
Indeed I agree that Israel is destroying itself with its own actions. And there’s no doubt it’s currently an apartheid state. However, I’d rather move on from the current situation of endless misery and slaughter, which no one seems to be able to stop, with any means possible.
How? I can only see one exit and that’s the destruction of the racist genocidal regime. There’s no workable truce anymore.
Worst is that he's not bravadoing. It was clear to me that, after Gaza, the Zionist Genocidal Monster would also try to genocide the West Bank.
The Tanakh faithful Zionists of Israel take the Torah (Bereshit 12:1, 12:7) literally in order to imperialistically conquer the ‘promised land’, break international public law and organise war crimes.
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8176/jewish/Chapter-12.htm
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/336880?lang=bi On the Far Side of the Jordan
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/go-from-your-land/
https://torah.org/parsha/lech-lecha/
https://torah.org/torah-portion/legacy-5773-lechlecha/
https://new.oic-oci.org/SitePages/NewsDetail.aspx?Item=5466 Resolution Issued by the Extraordinary Arab and Islamic Summit 11 November 2024 (9 Jumada al-Ula 1446 H) Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Remember Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? He is probably correct.
It's time to pack up and head for home. The petrodollar is kaput. America's legions will be needed here to put down the food riots. Rising ocean levels will wipe out cities on the East Coast and millions of refugees will be headed for higher ground in the hinterlands. On that bright note, what is this about Israel and the West Bank?