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ISRAELI MINISTERS ISSUE DEMAND TO END NEGOTIATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN AID TO GAZA

In a letter issued to the Israeli occupation's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, notorious Zionist, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, slammed ongoing negotiations for a hostage release with Hamas, and called for an end to the passing of Humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

According to the occupation's media, the recently rescued hostage, Fernando Marman, told Israeli authorities that he never received any of his medications while in Hamas's captivity, even though this was supposed to happen as part of a previous hostage deal which called for Marman to receive them.

Despite a minimal American push to see talks with Hamas come to fruition in a hostage deal, Netanyahu remains under near constant pressure from his Zionist right-wing to reject any "irresponsible deal" that might see an end to Israel's offensives and bombing campaigns in the Gaza Strip that have now claimed more than 28'000 Palestinian civilian lives and wounded another 69'000.

After the Zionist media reported that Netanyahu had ordered his IOF hostage envoy Nitzan Alon, along with the Mossad's chief David Barnea and the Shin Bet leader, Ronen Bar, to represent the Israeli entity in Cairo, Israel's Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that Israel's intelligence heads would be better used on the battlefield in Gaza.

Speaking of the Shin Bet leader, Smotrich said Ronen Bar should “be sent to Rafah together with his men and the IDF soldiers to destroy, kill and annihilate the heads of the murderers and all the Nazi Hamas terrorists."

Ben Gvir also put pressure on Netanyahu, telling an audience that he trusted Netanyahu would reject an “irresponsible deal, and that with God’s help, we will fight to the end.”

Previously, Minister Gvir told reporters he would leave the Netanyahu coalition if Israel's ongoing military offensive didn't "continue at full strength."

According to media reports, CIA director William Burns, alongside Mossad chief David Barnea and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani are all to meet in Cairo for a meeting "to discuss a truce in Gaza."

The meeting is expected to be convened in order to craft a "final draft" of a 6-week ceasefire deal that would see guarantees for the continuation of negotiations to create a lasting and permanent ceasefire.

For its part, Hamas has proposed a ceasefire deal which calls for a four months-long truce which would include hostage swaps in three stages, along with a push for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu has responded by calling the proposed ceasefire deal "delusional" and argued that only military operations in the Gaza Strip will secure the release of Israeli hostages.

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By Ahmed Abu Artema

Bezalel Smotrich is one of the main pillars of the current Israeli government. Although generally described as the finance minister, his work is not confined to curbing inflation. A far-right extremist, Smotrich has used his new platform to incite violence. Just days after Israeli settlers carried out a pogrom in Huwara – killing one Palestinian and inflicting huge destruction on homes, businesses, and vehicles – Smotrich called for that West Bank village to be “wiped out” by the Israeli state.

#Israel #FreePalestine #massacre #Huwara #bezalel smotrich #zionism #imperialism #occupation #apartheid #colonialism #Struggle La Lucha

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

It randomly occurred to me that the people who hate Ben Gvir and Smotrich et al (and vice versa) are your typical left-wing to center-left Israeli and American Zionist Jews, because to pro-Palestinian types our deep political differences are irrelevant

#israel #palestine #jews #itamar ben gvir #bezalel smotrich

[eretzyisrael]

Smotrich’s remarks may have been “unhelpful” in the view of the Bidenites, but are they false? Look again at the evidence. Why is it that in none of the speeches of Arab leaders before the 1948 war, or before the 1967 war, are the “Palestinian people” mentioned? Why, in the transcribed records of endless Arab speechifying at the UN, are the “Palestinian people” suddenly to be found only after the Six-Day War? And why is it that beginning in the summer of 1967 the “Palestinian people” are mentioned all over the place, most notably in the Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967, where all of the Arab states gave their “three Nos” to Israel: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel.” which were immediately followed by this: “and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their country.”

The European Union said it “firmly deplores yet another unacceptable comment by Minister Smotrich ”which should not be “tolerated.

Such remarks are “wrong, disrespectful, dangerous and counterproductive in a situation which is already very tense,” the EU said.

“We call on the Israeli government to disavow those comments and to work together with all the parties involved to defuse tensions,” the EU said.

Israel cannot possibly “disavow” Smotrich’s remarks about the non-existent Palestinian people because Israelis, including those who for other reasons oppose Smotrich, know that his statement, just like those of Zuheir Mohsen and Golda Meir, happens to be true.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that Smotrich’s words were racist, ahistorical, and fueled anger among the Palestinians and ran counter to efforts by its government to halt a violent outbreak during the month of Ramadan which begins on March 22 and which will overlap with the Passover and Easter.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office and Prime Minister Mohammed Shytayyeh denounced Smotrich’s remarks as well as the graphic at the podium from which he spoke….

The graphic put up at the podium shows the territory of both Israel and Jordan. This has been taken by the Arabs as a sign that Smotrich wants a “Greater Israel” that would incorporate Jordan into a single state with Israel. That’s not at all what Smotrich meant. He was merely reminding the world that the territory originally assigned to the Mandate for Palestine included territory on both sides of the Jordan River, and that it was the British who in 1921 for reasons of their own — to provide a country for the Hashemite Emir Abdullah — removed all of Palestine that lay east of the Jordan from the terms of the Mandate, and ended Jewish immigration to that area. Smotrich simply was reminding the world of that fact, so often ignored.

Shtayyeh said that Smotrich was repeating the myth that Palestine is “a land without people and a people without land” in contrast to “historical and archeological evidence” proving ancient Palestinian roots in their land.

Where is this historical and archaeological evidence that proves “ancient Palestinian roots in their land”? There are thousands of archeological sites in Israel — 2000 of them in Jerusalem alone. They are full of Jewish artifacts — pottery shards, tools, eating utensils, oil lamps, menorahs, coins, not to mention the examples of writing, such as the spectacular Dead Sea Schools found in eleven caves in Qumran between 1947 and 1956. Where are the “Palestinian” archeological sites, where are the Palestinian artifacts that date back, at the earliest, to the late 7th century? There aren’t any. Instead, the Palestinians claim to be the descendants of various ancient peoples — the Canaanites, the Jebusites, the Philistines — to provide themselves with a fictitious past in the Land of Israel.

There are Palestinian Arabs. There are individual Palestinians. But there never has been a distinct Palestinian people living in the Land of Israel, between the river and the sea.

#palestinian people #palestinian arabs #bezalel smotrich #palestine #palestinians

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Cutting Through: Breaking Down Israel's Defense At The ICJ

In the latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I take a deep dive into Israel’s defense against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice. I examine their claims and whether any of their arguments might serve to sway the court. Check it out, and share the newsletter and help it grow!

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Since the new Israeli government was formed in December 2022, successive steps have been taken to further undermine Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank. Israel’s Minister of Finance and Minister in the Ministry of Defence, the ultranationalist and racist Bezalel Smotrich, recently told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that Israel should take practical measures to reverse the co-called the “Fayyad Plan”. This plan was named after the highly respected former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, and sought to establish Palestinian self-governing institutions in the West Bank. It is only a matter of time before Israel implements these measures, which includes preparations for a new security force to replace the Palestinian Authority. There are also increasing calls in Israel to oblige the miliary commander to copy every law legislated in the Knesset and to apply it, by military order, to the West Bank. These measures would amount to annexation in all but name.

Victor Kattan, ‘There is no legal impediment to Australia’s recognition of Palestine’, ABC

#ABC #Victor Kattan #Palestine #Palestinian Authority #Israel #West Bank #Salam Fayyad #Bezalel Smotrich #Israeli government

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Les 2 Kooks ou le nazisme sioniste

Ilan Pappé fait partie de ce qu’on a appelé les «nouveaux historiens» de l’entité sioniste, c’est-à-dire des chercheurs qui sur la base d’un travail classique d’historiens ont remis en cause le conte fabriqué par la propagande sioniste et qui a été vendu aux opinions publiques du monde occidental. Parmi les mythes que ces historiens ont contredit on a la fameuse thèse selon laquelle en 1948 les…

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[uboat53]

You know, for all the chatter back and forth in the discussion (argument?) about Israel/Palestine right now, people seem to be missing that what Israel is doing is actually not very good for Israel, just what's good for Netanyahu. Let me explain (SHORT RANT (TM) ahead).

WHAT IS ISRAEL DOING?

At this point, Israel has been carrying out a massive campaign of artillery and air strikes against one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. This seems to be in preparation for a massive ground invasion in which they intend to physically take, hold, and administer territory.

AND THAT'S NOT IN ISRAEL'S INTEREST?

Not remotely. There are still a few hundred hostages held by Hamas. Air and artillery strikes aren't exactly precision, and the sheer amount of them (more bombs have been dropped on Gaza in a month than were ever dropped on Afghanistan in a year) means there's a high risk of killing those hostages if the targeting of Hamas strongholds and infrastructure is at all accurate. More importantly, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have nothing to do with Hamas have had their homes destroyed and their friends and relatives killed in strikes that have likely killed orders of magnitude more innocent civilians than actual Hamas fighters; even if one percent of those people decide to take up arms against Israel they've more than doubled Hamas' membership and it's now extremely unlikely that any Palestinian is going to provide Israel with good intelligence in the next several years, meaning that their ability to predict and prevent any future attacks has substantially diminished.

SO WHAT IS IN ISRAEL'S INTEREST?

It would be in Israel's interest to make precision strikes based on clear intelligence, not what appear to be widespread strikes on just about anything and everything. Weakening Hamas is a key interest as would be gathering intel that allows them to locate and rescue any hostages they can, all while continuing negotiations to see if they can get the hostages returned peacefully. Oh, and doing all of this without inspiring a large population who were otherwise uninvolved to take up arms against them and not cutting off any human intelligence sources.

YOU THINK IT'S IN NETANYAHU'S INTEREST THEN?

Yes, Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel, but is horrifically unpopular. As in nearly 80% of Israelis think that this catastrophe is his fault and he should resign unpopular. Literally the only thing that is keeping a widespread call for his resignation at bay is that Israeli's are wary of changing leadership in the middle of active combat operations.

OKAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT NETANYAHU'S INTEREST THEN

Netanyahu's interest in the short term is for this conflict not to end. Once it ends, after all, he'll likely be forced out of office and into a courtroom to face one of the many criminal charges that have been brought against him. A sustained bombing campaign followed by a long and bloody ground campaign and occupation certainly serves that interest.

In the longer term, however, it's also serving the political interests of Netanyahu and the settler and Jewish supremacist parties that make up his governing coalition. They have spent decades working to prevent any viable peace process with the Palestinians and creating a large movement of Palestinians committed to violent resistance against Israel servies their interests as well.

COUNTRIES VS. THEIR LEADERS

So this is your reminder, countries do best when the interests of their leaders are aligned with the interests of the country as a whole, but the fact that we have to say that should be a solid reminder that those interests do not necessarily align. Caesar's famous quote, "I would rather be first in a stinking village in Gaul than second in Rome", is a stark example of a person who would ruin their nation or even turn against it, so long as they get to rule it.

Today, we see this tragedy unfolding on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both sides would be well served by an equitable peace, but those who have control over the armed conflict, Ismael Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif of Hamas, who have called for the extermination of Israel among many, many other statements, on the Palestinian side and Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has called for the extermination of Arabs, even Arab citizens of Israel, and was convicted of supporting anti-Arab terrorism, and Bezalel Smotrich, who has referred to Hamas as an asset in preventing the formation of a Palestinian state and has declared even the existence of Arab citizens in Israel a "mistake", on the Israeli side are calling the shots.

Neither sides' leaders have the broader good of their people in mind and both are sure to cause far more violence, bloodshed, and damage to their own compatriots in the name of their extremist views before all is said and done.

SO WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND THEN?

I recommend you think about what you want to have happen rather than just blindly supporting a side. For me, I believe that Israel as a state has a right to exist and that all people involved have a right to dignity, security, and self-determination. Because of this, I refuse to support either the actions of the current Israeli government or the actions of Hamas; both have committed and are committing horrific atrocities undertaken by violent extremists in the name of unending war.

Support what you think will be best for the people you care about, but be careful about just blindly following the political leadership of a side that may not have the actual best interests of those people in mind.

#politics #international politics #israel palestine conflict #ismael haniyeh #mohammed deif #benjamin netanyahu #itamar ben gvir #bezalel smotrich #extremism #short rant (tm)

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Israel's Satirists & Comedians demand Yair Netanyahu return to Twitter

By Yuval Weiss Last Updated 5/14/2023 at 12:30 PM Tel Aviv: Israel’s humor community is in a funk today, thanks to the continued exile of their biggest meal ticket: Yair Netanyahu. According to The Jerusalem Post, the Prime Minister’s son has been banished to America and barred from social media by his family. That’s right, The Netanyahus have shipped their Prolific Tweeter/Shitposter to the USA.…

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Parlamentul iordanian recomandă expulzarea ambasadorului israelian

Parlamentul iordanian a recomandat miercuri guvernului să-l expulzeze pe ambasadorul israelian din țară din cauza recentelor declarații controversate ale ministrului israelian de Finanțe, Betsalel Smotrich, care a afirmat la începutul săptămânii că nu există un popor palestinian. “Nu există palestinieni, pentru că nu există un popor palestinian”, a declarat ministrul israelian de Finanțe…

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“The US State Department needs to go farther than simply condemning Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for his genocidal language. The US State Department should revoke his visa immediately and deny him entry.

Two days ago mobs of settlers set ablaze and terrorized the Palestinians villages of Huwara, Burin, and Za’atara. Only a week has passed since Israeli occupying forces committed a massacre in Nablus, killing 11 Palestinians and injuring over 100 in broad daylight in a busy market.

And today, the Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said, “The [Palestinian] village of Huwara should be wiped out... I think that the State of Israel needs to do that - not...private individuals.”

This is a clear, unabashed call for genocide. And it makes clear once again that while they may disagree on the methods, both Israeli politicians and the settlers we saw burning down homes this week agree on the goal.

In just two weeks, Smotrich is traveling to Washington, DC to speak at the Israel Bonds conference and raise money for his genocidal project.

Will you sign our petition demanding the US State Department block Smotrich’s travel to the U.S.?”

Please join me in signing and sharing.

#free palestine #Palestine #Israel #israeli occupation #israeli war crimes #bezalel smotrich #Nablus #huwara #ethnic cleansing #tw genocide #genocide #us politics #us foreign policy #israeli apartheid #crimes against humanity #antizionist #anticolonialism