From The Times of Israel:
Here are some excerpts ...
Here are some excerpts ...
- Under pressure from Smotrich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday canceled a scheduled war cabinet debate on shaping post-war Gaza, and said he would hold the discussion instead in the larger security cabinet. Smotrich is not a member of the tight-knit war cabinet, but he and fellow far-right leader Itamar Ben Gvir, minister of national security, do sit in the security cabinet.
- “We want to encourage willful emigration, and we need to find countries willing to take them in,” he said.
- He also told Army Radio: “I don’t think there’s anyone in Israel who doesn’t want to see Jewish settlements everywhere.”
- “Not even a shekel will be transferred to Gaza,” he said. “Gazans are not innocent. I was against fuel [entering] and I still am. Fuel is power for terrorism and the tunnels. It is happening and it is bad — but I alone am not in charge of this government.”
- “In the game of delegitimization… the Palestinian Authority is a burden and Hamas is an asset.”