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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Israel Is Moving Forward To Erase Palestine!

Israel continues to commit war crimes.

Will the U.S. address its Middle East ally and their attempt to eradicate people living in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Golan Heights, the rightful land of the Palestinian people.

It appears the Likud and Kahanist Parties of Israel are in a coalition of rightful seizure.

If anyone dares to criticize the Israeli government, expect allegations of anti-semitism.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was booted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee because she dared to criticize the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) for spending millions to encourage lawmakers to look the other way when it comes to war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

President Joe Biden despises Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister is by far a political louse. He is under investigation for corruption and yet continues return to power as their leading adviser of Israeli politics. The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog can't really get things done as leader of the minority. 

Israel is also on the brink of collapse due to Netanyahu trying to impose new veto powers to overrule the Israeli Supreme Court. Herzog, whose role is primarily ceremonial, exhorted the government, led by Netanyahu, not to advance proposed legislation right now, while saying he would make himself available “at all hours of the day” for compromise talks. He said he feared a steep cost if the government moves forward with proposals that have animated massive protests as well as criticism from foreign governments and Jewish and business leaders.

“For a while, we have no longer been in a political debate, but are on the brink of constitutional and social collapse,” Herzog, a former leader of the Labor opposition party who once ran against Netanyahu, said early in the speech. “I feel, we all feel, that we are in the moment before a clash, even a violent clash. The gunpowder barrel is about to explode.”

A senior Israeli official on Wednesday called for the state to “erase” the Palestinian town of Hawara, which was rampaged by Jewish settlers over the weekend.

“I think the village of Hawara needs to be erased. I think that the state of Israel needs to do it. God forbid that regular people should do it,” Israel Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said.

His comments came after he liked a tweet that called for Hawara to be “wiped out” in the wake of a Palestinian gunman's attack that killed two brothers, Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 19, who lived in the Israeli settlement of Har Bracha, around 5 miles away.

Israeli security forces were searching the Hawara area for the attacker when Jewish settlers gathered and stormed the village.

The far right coalition of Israel will start another war.

Smotrich, who is the chairman of the far-right Religious Zionist Party and has been put in charge of many of Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, said that he has also called for calm during the violence. But on Monday, after the brothers were killed, he said that Israel should strike back “without mercy.”

“Under any circumstances, we should not be carried away to anarchy in which citizens take the law into their own hands,” he said. “What causes this situation is when citizens are murdered in the streets.”

A Palestinian man, Sameh Hamdallah Mahmoud Aqtash, 37, was shot and killed in the violence in Hawara, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday. Dozens of cars were also burned.

An Israel police spokesperson told NBC News that seven people had been arrested in connection with the violence. Another three people were currently under house arrest, the spokesperson added.

About 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which are territories the Palestinians want to use to build a future state. The international community, including the Biden administration, considers the settlements illegal and obstacles to peace.

Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Smotrich, a settler leader who lives in the area, told a journalist with Israel’s 13 News that the attacks on Hawara weren't “Jewish terrorism.”

“There is no such thing as Jewish terrorism, it is a criminal crime,” Smotrich said.

The American government looks the other way.

Smotrich, who has made similar comments in the past, was criticized after the video of his interview was published online.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a news conference Wednesday that the comments were “irresponsible” and “repugnant.”

“Just as we condemn Palestinian incitement to violence, we condemn these provocative remarks that also amount to incitement to violence,” he said. He added the U.S. was calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials to “publicly and clearly reject and disavow these comments.”

Elsewhere, Eugene Finkel, a professor of international affairs at Baltimore’s John Hopkins University tweeted that Smotrich didn’t “even want a pretense of deniability by outsourcing it to ‘vigilantes.’”

He added: “We might be headed to a major explosion and I don’t think even the U.S. can stop it now.”

In nearly a year of violence, more than 200 Palestinians and at least 40 Israelis were killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, according to the Associated Press. A deadly Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Nablus killed at least 11 Palestinians last week and left scores more wounded.

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