The core of the problem isn't Smotrich and Ben-Gvir; it's Netanyahu's ruling party. So a 🧵of sh*t that Likud MKs are saying about Gaza and the Palestinians:
1. Likud MK Moshe Saada: "It is clear that all the Gazans need to be destroyed" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
1. Likud MK Moshe Saada: "It is clear that all the Gazans need to be destroyed" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
2. Deputy Knesset Speaker and Likud MK Nissim Vaturi said that Israel had to "no less than burn Gaza". "Who's left in Gaza? Are there citizens? There are only tunnels, Hamas, and accursed terrorists. We have to crush Gaza, Gaza is Hamas." jpost.com/israel-news/po…
3. At the Knesset rostrum in October, Likud MK Tally Gotliv called to deny food and water to the population of Gaza so that Israel could effectively recruit Palestinian collaborators by "bribing them with food, fluids, and medicines".
https://twitter.com/KnessetT/status/1716502486331113922
3b. Likud MK Gotliv also called for "no mercy" in the bombing of Gaza in order to "flatten Gaza, not [just] a neighborhood." "Otherwise we'll have done nothing." middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-israe…
4. Two days after October 7, Likud MK Ariel Kallner wrote, “Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48." Weeks later, Kallner's tone was calmer, but he was pushing the same "transfer" agenda (). haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israe…
middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israe…
5. In late October, Likud MK Amit Halevi called for indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, saying that "we can and must bomb both" Hamas supporters (not just combatants) and even non-supporters. israelnationalnews.com/news/379492
6. But it's not just junior backbenchers. Here's Avi Dicther, a Cabinet Minister from Likud, in November: "We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba". haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
7a. Likud Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel called for "voluntary" emigration from Gaza, suggesting that Israel would create postwar conditions to encourage it: “There will be no work, and 60% of Gaza’s agricultural land will become security buffer zones.”timesofisrael.com/israel-in-talk…
7b. In mid-October, a policy paper from Gamliel's Likud-controlled ministry called to evacuate all Gazan noncombatants to northern Sinai. Postwar, "the return of the population to activities/residences near the border with Israel should not be allowed." 972mag.com/intelligence-m…
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