Palestinians Say Netanyahu 'Confessions' Reveal Truth of 'Genocidal War' in Gaza
The Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli prime minister's push for what he terms "voluntary migration" shows that ethnic cleansing of the besieged enclave is the real goal of the ongoing bombing and ground invasion.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a map of "The New Middle East" without Palestine during his September 22, 2023, address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The remarks earned a swift condemnation from Palestinian leadership.
In a statement posted on social media, the Foreign Ministry said that "frank and clear confessions reveal the truth about the goals of the genocidal war led by Netanyahu against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip," according to The Siasat Daily.
The ministry called for "a courageous international stance to immediately stop the war on the Gaza Strip and stop the crime of ethnic cleansing and displacement before it is too late."
It further said that "Netanyahu's confessions regarding the displacement of our people is a new blow to the countries supporting him in the genocidal war on Gaza Strip."
Hamas, meanwhile, said that Netanyahu's plan "would prolong the aggression," the Anadolu Agency reported.
"The Palestinian people will not allow to pass any plan that aims to obliterate their cause or to get them out of their lands and sanctities," the group said.
Netanyahu's remarks came during a Likud faction meeting, according to Hayom Daily. The prime minister was responding to a statement by Member of the Knesset Shani Danon.
"The world is already discussing this matter. Canadian immigration minister Mark Miller spoke about these matters publicly, as did Nikki Haley (the potential Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency)," Danon said, according to a translation from The Siasat Daily.
Danon recommended "forming a team in the State of Israel that will take care of this issue and make sure that anyone who wants to leave Gaza for a third country can do so."
"This must be organized, because of its strategic importance for the day after the war," he said.
Netanyahu responded that his government was working on it.
This isn't the first time it has been suggested or hinted that Israel aims for the expulsion of the civilian population of Gaza. Danon co-wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in November with fellow Knesset member Ram Ben-Barak arguing that Europe and the U.S. should help resettle refugees from the Gaza Strip. Another opinion piece published in The Jerusalem Post on Monday argued that the population of Gaza should be relocated to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
A U.N. expert warned last week that a goal of forcible population transfer out of Gaza was the only "logical conclusion" of Israel's assault on the strip, which has internally displaced 85% of its 2.3 million people. Israel has killed more than 20,000 people in Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked southern Israel and killed more than 1,100 people and took around 240 hostages.
In retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants,Israel has cut off the flow of essential supplies into Gaza and flattened or damaged, homes, hospitals, schools, and businesses with heavy, U.S.-made bombs in what military historian Robert Pape called "one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history."
So far, however, governments in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. have rejected any plans to transfer the population of Gaza to another country, according to Middle East Eye. Both Egypt and Jordan have refused to accept large numbers of Gazan refugees, wanting to avoid a repetition of the first Nakba, in which Israel forced more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
The Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli prime minister's push for what he terms "voluntary migration" shows that ethnic cleansing of the besieged enclave is the real goal of the ongoing bombing and ground invasion.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a map of "The New Middle East" without Palestine during his September 22, 2023, address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
COMMONDREAMS
Dec 26, 2023
Amid a ramping up of bombardments and military ground operations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was working toward what he referred to as a "voluntary migration" of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper Hayom Daily reported.
"Our problem is the countries that are willing to absorb (them), and we are working on it," he said, according to a translation from the Anadolu Agency.
Dec 26, 2023
Amid a ramping up of bombardments and military ground operations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was working toward what he referred to as a "voluntary migration" of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper Hayom Daily reported.
"Our problem is the countries that are willing to absorb (them), and we are working on it," he said, according to a translation from the Anadolu Agency.
The remarks earned a swift condemnation from Palestinian leadership.
In a statement posted on social media, the Foreign Ministry said that "frank and clear confessions reveal the truth about the goals of the genocidal war led by Netanyahu against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip," according to The Siasat Daily.
The ministry called for "a courageous international stance to immediately stop the war on the Gaza Strip and stop the crime of ethnic cleansing and displacement before it is too late."
It further said that "Netanyahu's confessions regarding the displacement of our people is a new blow to the countries supporting him in the genocidal war on Gaza Strip."
Hamas, meanwhile, said that Netanyahu's plan "would prolong the aggression," the Anadolu Agency reported.
"The Palestinian people will not allow to pass any plan that aims to obliterate their cause or to get them out of their lands and sanctities," the group said.
Netanyahu's remarks came during a Likud faction meeting, according to Hayom Daily. The prime minister was responding to a statement by Member of the Knesset Shani Danon.
"The world is already discussing this matter. Canadian immigration minister Mark Miller spoke about these matters publicly, as did Nikki Haley (the potential Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency)," Danon said, according to a translation from The Siasat Daily.
Danon recommended "forming a team in the State of Israel that will take care of this issue and make sure that anyone who wants to leave Gaza for a third country can do so."
"This must be organized, because of its strategic importance for the day after the war," he said.
Netanyahu responded that his government was working on it.
This isn't the first time it has been suggested or hinted that Israel aims for the expulsion of the civilian population of Gaza. Danon co-wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in November with fellow Knesset member Ram Ben-Barak arguing that Europe and the U.S. should help resettle refugees from the Gaza Strip. Another opinion piece published in The Jerusalem Post on Monday argued that the population of Gaza should be relocated to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
A U.N. expert warned last week that a goal of forcible population transfer out of Gaza was the only "logical conclusion" of Israel's assault on the strip, which has internally displaced 85% of its 2.3 million people. Israel has killed more than 20,000 people in Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked southern Israel and killed more than 1,100 people and took around 240 hostages.
In retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants,Israel has cut off the flow of essential supplies into Gaza and flattened or damaged, homes, hospitals, schools, and businesses with heavy, U.S.-made bombs in what military historian Robert Pape called "one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history."
So far, however, governments in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. have rejected any plans to transfer the population of Gaza to another country, according to Middle East Eye. Both Egypt and Jordan have refused to accept large numbers of Gazan refugees, wanting to avoid a repetition of the first Nakba, in which Israel forced more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
Smotrich touts revival of Gaza settlements after war, wants Gazans encouraged to leave
Finance minister advocates for ‘voluntary emigration’ of enclave’s residents, opposes fuel going into Strip; stands by 2015 comment calling PA a ‘burden’ and Hamas an ‘asset’
By TOI STAFF
Today, 9:20 am
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a joint press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (not seen) in Jerusalem, December 26, 2023.
An aid truck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, waits to cross into the southern Gaza Strip on December 6, 2023. (AFP)
Likewise, Jerusalem has denied claims that it is seeking to displace Gazans, an idea whose very mention elicits angry denunciations from Israel’s Arab allies.
During the interview, Smotrich noted his lack of power within the government, saying he opposes fuel being allowed into the Strip, but backing other humanitarian aid.
And in apparent acknowledgment of his tenuous political fortune (polls have shown his party struggling to reenter the Knesset if elections were held now), he seemed to offer an olive branch to erstwhile right-wing allies Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, expressing remorse over his attacks on the pair for joining the previous government, which was cobbled together of parties from across the political spectrum.
“There were things I said that I shouldn’t have said. I’m a different person after October 7,” he said.
But Smotrich showed no softening of his position on the contention that PA money bound for Gaza’s civilian officials would end up going to terrorists.
“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.”
Smotrich said he still agreed with and repeated a quote from a 2015 interview in which he said, “In the game of delegitimization… the Palestinian Authority is a burden and Hamas is an asset.” He claimed that the quote had been intentionally misinterpreted by critics as him saying the terror group was positive for Israel.
The snippet of the interview — conducted on October 7, 2015 — has repeatedly circulated on social media since the outbreak of the war.
“I stand by every word,” he said, explaining that Israel has international backing to act against Hamas, now even more so due to its brutal atrocities of October 7, while the Biden administration still urges that money be transferred to the PA.
Washington insists that after the war, the PA — which Israel has accused of supporting terrorism through education, payment of stipends to terrorists, and a failure to condemn Hamas’s atrocities — should eventually fill the leadership vacuum to reunite the West Bank and Gaza under a single political entity and pave a path toward an eventual two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
At the same time, many in the defense establishment view the PA as a crucial partner in security coordination and ensuring relative calm in the West Bank.
The US concedes that the PA will need to be “rejuvenated” before it can take responsibility for the Gaza Strip.
In a “frustrating” call last weekend, US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his government’s decision to withhold Palestinian tax funds following October 7 must be resolved, Axios reported Thursday, citing US and Israeli officials and a “source with knowledge of the issue.”
Finance minister advocates for ‘voluntary emigration’ of enclave’s residents, opposes fuel going into Strip; stands by 2015 comment calling PA a ‘burden’ and Hamas an ‘asset’
By TOI STAFF
Today, 9:20 am
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a joint press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (not seen) in Jerusalem, December 26, 2023.
(Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
Israel should discuss the revival of civilian settlements within the Gaza Strip as part of its planning for the enclave once Hamas rule is toppled, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Saturday night, while denying that any of Gaza’s approximately 2 million residents were innocent and calling for Israel to “encourage voluntary emigration” from the territory.
Speaking to Channel 12 news, the leader of the hard-right Religious Zionism party also doubled down on his refusal to transfer tax payments to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that the money will find its way to Gaza, sloughing off reported pressure from the United States on the matter and pushing back against insinuations that he and others had propped up Hamas as a convenient foil.
“We will be in security control, and we will need there to be civil [control],” Smotrich said. “I’m for completely changing the reality in Gaza, having a conversation about settlements in the Gaza Strip… We’ll need to rule there for a long time… If we want to be there militarily, we need to be there in a civilian fashion.”
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.
The minister, who was arrested in 2005 while protesting Israel’s evacuation of its Gaza Strip settlements, also said Jerusalem could not allow Gaza to remain as a “hothouse of 2 million people who want destroy the State of Israel.”
“We want to encourage willful emigration, and we need to find countries willing to take them in,” he said.
In an Army Radio interview on Sunday morning, Smotrich returned to that point: “We need to encourage immigration from there. If there were 100,000-200,000 Arabs in the Strip and not two million, the whole conversation about the day after [the war] would be completely different,” he said. “They want to leave. They have been living in a ghetto for 75 years and are in need.”
He also told Army Radio: “I don’t think there’s anyone in Israel who doesn’t want to see Jewish settlements everywhere.”
Israel’s mainstream leaders have repeatedly dismissed the idea of reestablishing settlements in Gaza, though the military campaign in the Strip to fell Hamas following the October 7 massacres — when terrorists rampaged through Israeli communities, killing 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostages of all ages — has raised hopes among some stalwarts of the settlement movement.
Israel should discuss the revival of civilian settlements within the Gaza Strip as part of its planning for the enclave once Hamas rule is toppled, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Saturday night, while denying that any of Gaza’s approximately 2 million residents were innocent and calling for Israel to “encourage voluntary emigration” from the territory.
Speaking to Channel 12 news, the leader of the hard-right Religious Zionism party also doubled down on his refusal to transfer tax payments to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that the money will find its way to Gaza, sloughing off reported pressure from the United States on the matter and pushing back against insinuations that he and others had propped up Hamas as a convenient foil.
“We will be in security control, and we will need there to be civil [control],” Smotrich said. “I’m for completely changing the reality in Gaza, having a conversation about settlements in the Gaza Strip… We’ll need to rule there for a long time… If we want to be there militarily, we need to be there in a civilian fashion.”
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.
The minister, who was arrested in 2005 while protesting Israel’s evacuation of its Gaza Strip settlements, also said Jerusalem could not allow Gaza to remain as a “hothouse of 2 million people who want destroy the State of Israel.”
“We want to encourage willful emigration, and we need to find countries willing to take them in,” he said.
In an Army Radio interview on Sunday morning, Smotrich returned to that point: “We need to encourage immigration from there. If there were 100,000-200,000 Arabs in the Strip and not two million, the whole conversation about the day after [the war] would be completely different,” he said. “They want to leave. They have been living in a ghetto for 75 years and are in need.”
He also told Army Radio: “I don’t think there’s anyone in Israel who doesn’t want to see Jewish settlements everywhere.”
Israel’s mainstream leaders have repeatedly dismissed the idea of reestablishing settlements in Gaza, though the military campaign in the Strip to fell Hamas following the October 7 massacres — when terrorists rampaged through Israeli communities, killing 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostages of all ages — has raised hopes among some stalwarts of the settlement movement.
An aid truck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, waits to cross into the southern Gaza Strip on December 6, 2023. (AFP)
Likewise, Jerusalem has denied claims that it is seeking to displace Gazans, an idea whose very mention elicits angry denunciations from Israel’s Arab allies.
During the interview, Smotrich noted his lack of power within the government, saying he opposes fuel being allowed into the Strip, but backing other humanitarian aid.
And in apparent acknowledgment of his tenuous political fortune (polls have shown his party struggling to reenter the Knesset if elections were held now), he seemed to offer an olive branch to erstwhile right-wing allies Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, expressing remorse over his attacks on the pair for joining the previous government, which was cobbled together of parties from across the political spectrum.
“There were things I said that I shouldn’t have said. I’m a different person after October 7,” he said.
But Smotrich showed no softening of his position on the contention that PA money bound for Gaza’s civilian officials would end up going to terrorists.
“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.”
Smotrich said he still agreed with and repeated a quote from a 2015 interview in which he said, “In the game of delegitimization… the Palestinian Authority is a burden and Hamas is an asset.” He claimed that the quote had been intentionally misinterpreted by critics as him saying the terror group was positive for Israel.
The snippet of the interview — conducted on October 7, 2015 — has repeatedly circulated on social media since the outbreak of the war.
“I stand by every word,” he said, explaining that Israel has international backing to act against Hamas, now even more so due to its brutal atrocities of October 7, while the Biden administration still urges that money be transferred to the PA.
Washington insists that after the war, the PA — which Israel has accused of supporting terrorism through education, payment of stipends to terrorists, and a failure to condemn Hamas’s atrocities — should eventually fill the leadership vacuum to reunite the West Bank and Gaza under a single political entity and pave a path toward an eventual two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
At the same time, many in the defense establishment view the PA as a crucial partner in security coordination and ensuring relative calm in the West Bank.
The US concedes that the PA will need to be “rejuvenated” before it can take responsibility for the Gaza Strip.
In a “frustrating” call last weekend, US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his government’s decision to withhold Palestinian tax funds following October 7 must be resolved, Axios reported Thursday, citing US and Israeli officials and a “source with knowledge of the issue.”
Netanyahu says Israel must control Gaza's border with Egypt •
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Dec 30, 2023
Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Saturday that the Philadelphi Corridor buffer zone that runs along Gaza's border with Egypt must be in Israeli hands. The area territory includes the Rafah Crossing, Gaza's only connection to the Arab world. The Israeli military believes there are tunnels full of ammunition and "a lot of long-range missiles" have been coming into Gaza through these tunnels from Egypt, says journalist Sami Sockol, reporting from Jerusalem.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
NIGERIAN PRESS
Benjamin Netanyahu
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Nigerian Aviation Minister, in this piece, draws that attention of the global community to the horror going on in Gaza.
He argues that Israel which was a victim of Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust in Nazi Germany, now inflicts collateral damage on children, women, the aged, an unarmed populace, in Palestine.
In his words: “Needless to say I wholeheartedly and categorically condemn EVERYTHING that they said and did to the Jews, the Slavs, the Gypsies, the homosexuals, the disabled, the deformed and indeed the rest of humanity but my question is pertinent and needs to be answered.
That question is whether it is possible that Hitler prophetically foresaw and envisioned a mirror of his evil self in the Satanyahu’s of this world and decided to rid us of the insidious Zionist plot and barbarous plague that lay many years ahead?”
Below is the full essay:
Has Israel forfeited her right to exist?
Femi Fani-Kayode
The genocidal monster and strange little creature that appears in a video which I posted on X boastfully proclaiming that “every single Gazan is an enemy of Israel” & that “every man, woman and child in Gaza should be killed”, proves that the Jewish state is now a nation of demonically-inspired souls that are in the grip and power of satan.
The creature, whose name is Eliyahu Yossian and who is a former member of an elite Intelligence Unit of the Israeli Defence Force, spoke with the same murderous intention and homicidal obsession that his Jewish forefathers did 2,000 years ago when they insisted on the cold-blooded murder and crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and when they proudly and foolishly proclaimed, “Let His blood be upon us and upon our children”.
For those that have not seen or heard the creature’s vile, venomous and incendiary contribution the video can be found on my X handle (@realFFK) or @intifada.
In case his display of madness was not enough to invoke your boiling and inconsolable rage, consider the words of yet another mentally ill malefactor.
This time it was a serving Israeli Army officer, fresh out of Gaza, who was recorded whilst proclaiming the following with a big smile on his face.
He said,
“we are looking for babies to kill! I have killed a girl who was around 12 but I want to kill a baby”.
For those that doubt that anyone could speak like this and are skeptical about my representation of his sentiments, kindly view them yourself on my X handle (@realFFK) or on @tparsi and @Khaledyoursy22.
If one is looking for good examples of what the English common law describes as “a diseased mind” and what Romans 1:28 of the Holy Bible describes as a “reprobate” one, these two troubled, twisted souls readily provide them.
Sadly this depravity is not limited to them alone and does not stop there.
It is a general, widespread malaise which is shared by most Israelis and particularly by those in the ruling Likud party, the Government, the Parliament (the Knesset), the security and intelligence agencies (Mossad and Shin Bet) and the Israeli Defence Force.
Permit me to share a few examples of their barbarous disposition.
Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN who have been arrested by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza are routinely stripped naked and paraded through the streets before being spat on, tortured, mocked, defecated , urinated over and finally murdered.
Even in death they are not spared but are subjected to even more humiliation as their bodies are desecrated and mutilated and their vital organs are skillfully and clinically carved out and sent back to Israel for sale on the flourishing international and national black market for human parts!
I will not speak of the mass rape and group sodomy that Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN are subjected to by the Israeli Army.
I will not speak about the fact that the Israeli Army are using shells containing internationally-banned white phosphorus and that they have launched more than a thousand artillery strikes on densely populated areas since the start of their bloody war on the Gaza Strip on 7 October.
I will not speak about the fact that they burn little children from head to toe with their flame throwers, Nepam bombs and white phosphorus shells and the fact that the few that are left alive suffer the most excruciating form of unbearable pain before they eventually die.
I know this because I have seen the videos and they are far too troubling and graphic for me to post or share.
They were sent to me by my friend and brother His Excellency Abdullah Abu Sawesh, the Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria
After watching them in absolute shock, horror and disbelief I wept for the children of Gaza and the people of Palestine and I told him that I honestly believe that all the demons had fled hell and had relocated to the State of Israel.
These are just a few of the unspeakable things and abominable atrocities that are being committed against innocent and defenceless Palestinians in the name of waging war against Hamas by the Jews and frankly it beggars belief and is utterly mind-boggling.
They are targetting and killing women, infants and babies as if they were shooting fish in a barrel.
All this yet the world sits back and does NOTHING whilst what is fast developing into the greatest massacre of non-combatants and civilians by one of the world’s most powerful armies is taking place right under our noses and before our eyes.
What a tragedy this is and what a terrible stain on humanity.
Yet despite the horrors that the Jews are subjecting the Palestinians to they insist on rejoicing about their shameless barbarity and unconciable cruelty with loud roars of triumph and wild, far-fetched notions and claims of victory.
Unknown to them, this so-called “victory” comes at a great cost.
I say this because given the savagery and barbarity that we are witnessing in Gaza, many are of the view that the Jewish state may have proved her historical and modern-day detractors right and FORFEITED her right to exist.
The notion that she should be wiped off the face of the earth is beginning to gain traction and appear attractive to millions of people throughout the world.
The relentless madness and murderous disposition of Prime Minister Bibi “Satanyahu”, the blood-lusting barbarity of the Israeli Defence Force and the insidious and malevolent intention of the Zionist lunatic fringe to unleash the world’s second holocaust on the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank and effect what Adolf Hitler described as the “Final Solution” by eliminating and exterminating every single Palestinian man, woman and child on the face of the earth have made many reconsider their position and come to the chilling conclusion that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran and all the other notable individuals and state and non-state actors in world history and from time immemorial who believed that the Jews and the State of Israel should be erased from existence may have had a point.
Let me be clear.
As a strong believer in the resolutions of the Oslo Accords and the “two-state solution” and a believer in justice, equity and the Jewish state’s right to exist, I do NOT share this view and neither do I believe that Israel could ever be wiped out but if truth be told, as a consequence of events in Gaza and particularly the wilful and premeditated slaughter of women and children, many that think like me are beginning to reconsider their views.
Worse still most people, quite erroneously in my view, no longer care to make a distinction between Zionism and Judaism and, as each day passes, they say more and more that the Jews and the Zionists are one and the same and are BOTH the enemies of not just the Arabs but of the whole of humanity!
That is where “Satanyahu” and his insidious supremacist philosophy, racist disposition and apartheid mindset has taken his country.
He has made more enemies for the Jews than any other leader in their 6000 year history.
Permit me to shed more light on his dark and sinister mindset and that of those that are members of his inner circle by sharing the following.
A few days ago on X @CensoredMen posted the following insightful and revealing contribution titled “Netanyahu’s Superstars”.
They wrote,
“Benjamin Netanyahu has a wide range of personalities serving inside his government but two names in particular separate themselves from the rest.
These two people are: Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security Minister of Israel) and Bezalel Yoel Smotich (Finance Minister of Israel)
Before we continue I want you to know that these two men were PERSONALLY appointed by Netanyahu to their positions.
Now let us go through their highlight reels.
Itamar Ben-Gvir:
⁃ He believes that the Jewish tradition of spitting on Christians, Priests and Churches is perfectly fine and should NOT be punishable by law.
⁃ He is a firm Israeli Supremacist.
He proved this when he said:
‘The right of me, my wife and my children to move around the West Bank is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs.’
⁃ He has pulled a gun on multiple Palestinian parking attendants in Tel Aviv.
⁃ He was notorious for having a portrait of Baruch Goldstein on his wall.
For those who do not know, Baruch was an American-Israeli terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinian worshipers in Hebron in 1994.
⁃ In June, he entered Al-Aqsa Mosque and declared Israel “in charge” to deliberately cause tension.
⁃ He has been convicted of all the following:
Incitement to racism.
Destroying property.
Possessing a “terror” organization’s propaganda material.
Supporting a “terror” organization.
Now that you have the rundown of Israel’s National Security Minister, let’s move onto Israel’s Finance Minister.
Bezalel Smotrich:
– In 2016 Smotrich made a statement in which he said Jewish mothers should not share maternity wards with Arab mothers.
– In February 2023 he was in favour of “wiping out” a Palestinian village and called for the Palestinian town of Huwara to be “erased”.
– In March 2023 he said “there is no such thing as Palestine and there are no such people as Palestinians.”
– In March 2023, Smotrich visited France and spoke at a podium featuring a map of “Greater Israel”.
“Greater Israel” includes:
The entirety of Palestine
The entirety of Jordan
Parts of Iraq
Parts of Lebanon
Parts of Syria
Parts of Egypt
Parts of Turkey
Parts of Saudi Arabia
I refer to these two as “Netanyahu’s Superstars”.
Why?
Because no matter what they say or do Netanyahu will always defend them and refuses to remove them from their positions inside the Israeli Government.
I hope this tweet gave you a better understanding of the mentality of Israel’s leadership”.
This is a useful contribution from @CensoredMen and I commend them for their courage.
It is not only disturbing but also revealing and one wonders whether there is any other Government in the world that harbours such deranged, psychopathic, vicious and Nazi-like thugs at the highest level within its ranks .
Could this have been the mindset that Adolf Hitler, another monster of history and author of the infamous and rabidly racist treatise titled ‘Mein Kampf’ (My Struggle), envisioned many years ago and attempted to warn the world against?
To be sure I deplore Hitler and all that he stood for and I have nothing but contempt for his Nazis and their despicable Aryan dream and vision.
Needless to say I wholeheartedly and categorically condemn EVERYTHING that they said and did to the Jews, the Slavs, the Gypsies, the homosexuals, the disabled, the deformed and indeed the rest of humanity but my question is pertinent and needs to be answered.
That question is whether it is possible that Hitler prophetically foresaw and envisioned a mirror of his evil self in the Satanyahu’s of this world and decided to rid us of the insidious Zionist plot and barbarous plague that lay many years ahead?
Much like the murderous, homicidal, conniving, treacherous, cruel, insidious and dark soul depicted in the Holy Bible by the name of Haman, Hitler wanted to kill all the Jews, wipe out their faith and take their land, worldly possessions and money whilst todays Jewish Zionists want to kill all the Arabs, wipe out their faith and take away all that they have.
Is it not an irony of fate that yesterday’s victims of terror, racism and genocide are today the greatest oppressors, terrorists and perpetrators of ethnic and religious cleansing?
Are the Zionists, led by Bibi and the lunatics in his cabinet, any different from Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goring, Hess and all the other German Nazis?
The latter caused the death of no less than 50 million people in WW11 and the former may well cause the death of billions in what may end up being WW111.
Are the two not one and the same?
We can debate this from morning till night but the little Palestinian girl who has lost her entire family, including her parents, grandparents and siblings and that was beaten to a pulp, raped, sodomised, mutilated and burnt alive by the heartless butchers of the Israeli Defence Force will certainly tell you that there is no difference at all.
She will confirm to anyone that cares to listen that both the German Nazis and the Jewish Zionists are two sides of the same coin and that the only difference is that the latter literally own and control the United States of America and indeed the Western world.
Is it any wonder that South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to probe the State of Israel for genocide in Gaza?
Just last week in an open letter that yours truly wrote to Satanyahu titled, “An Open Letter To Bibi” I submitted that he was mentally ill and that he needed psychiatric evaluation and treatment.
My assessment was borne out of an honestly held opinion and strong conviction and not malice and my observation and counsel was later confirmed by no less a person than the famous Hollywood blockbuster film producer Roger Stone who said, in a widely publicised television interview a few days ago, that he had met Satanyahu and that based on what he had told him and the way he behaved at that meeting he had no doubt that the man was “raving mad”.
Stone’s assertion and assessment of the Israeli Prime Minister’s failing mental health coupled with the revelations by @Censoredmen exposing the reckless sociopaths and psychopaths that he insists on keeping in his cabinet has confirmed my views about Satanyahu.
He is totally and completely unhinged and the fact that his nation has a nuclear bomb which he has the power to set off at any time is indeed a sobering and frightful thought.
Something needs to be done before it is too late and the sooner the people of Israel insist on a ceasefire in Gaza, bring an end to the war, remove Satanyahu from power and either jail him or hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he will undoubtedly be successfully prosecuted and handed a life sentence for genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity and infanticide, the better.
Yesterday the world rose up and came to the aid of the Jews when Hitler sought to eliminate them.
Today the world WILL rise up and come to the aid of the Palestinians.
It is just a matter of time.
O Israel, once loved and cherished by virtually all, you have now become a stench to everyone’s nose.
What a tragedy!
Benjamin Netanyahu
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Nigerian Aviation Minister, in this piece, draws that attention of the global community to the horror going on in Gaza.
He argues that Israel which was a victim of Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust in Nazi Germany, now inflicts collateral damage on children, women, the aged, an unarmed populace, in Palestine.
In his words: “Needless to say I wholeheartedly and categorically condemn EVERYTHING that they said and did to the Jews, the Slavs, the Gypsies, the homosexuals, the disabled, the deformed and indeed the rest of humanity but my question is pertinent and needs to be answered.
That question is whether it is possible that Hitler prophetically foresaw and envisioned a mirror of his evil self in the Satanyahu’s of this world and decided to rid us of the insidious Zionist plot and barbarous plague that lay many years ahead?”
Below is the full essay:
Has Israel forfeited her right to exist?
Femi Fani-Kayode
The genocidal monster and strange little creature that appears in a video which I posted on X boastfully proclaiming that “every single Gazan is an enemy of Israel” & that “every man, woman and child in Gaza should be killed”, proves that the Jewish state is now a nation of demonically-inspired souls that are in the grip and power of satan.
The creature, whose name is Eliyahu Yossian and who is a former member of an elite Intelligence Unit of the Israeli Defence Force, spoke with the same murderous intention and homicidal obsession that his Jewish forefathers did 2,000 years ago when they insisted on the cold-blooded murder and crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and when they proudly and foolishly proclaimed, “Let His blood be upon us and upon our children”.
For those that have not seen or heard the creature’s vile, venomous and incendiary contribution the video can be found on my X handle (@realFFK) or @intifada.
In case his display of madness was not enough to invoke your boiling and inconsolable rage, consider the words of yet another mentally ill malefactor.
This time it was a serving Israeli Army officer, fresh out of Gaza, who was recorded whilst proclaiming the following with a big smile on his face.
He said,
“we are looking for babies to kill! I have killed a girl who was around 12 but I want to kill a baby”.
For those that doubt that anyone could speak like this and are skeptical about my representation of his sentiments, kindly view them yourself on my X handle (@realFFK) or on @tparsi and @Khaledyoursy22.
If one is looking for good examples of what the English common law describes as “a diseased mind” and what Romans 1:28 of the Holy Bible describes as a “reprobate” one, these two troubled, twisted souls readily provide them.
Sadly this depravity is not limited to them alone and does not stop there.
It is a general, widespread malaise which is shared by most Israelis and particularly by those in the ruling Likud party, the Government, the Parliament (the Knesset), the security and intelligence agencies (Mossad and Shin Bet) and the Israeli Defence Force.
Permit me to share a few examples of their barbarous disposition.
Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN who have been arrested by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza are routinely stripped naked and paraded through the streets before being spat on, tortured, mocked, defecated , urinated over and finally murdered.
Even in death they are not spared but are subjected to even more humiliation as their bodies are desecrated and mutilated and their vital organs are skillfully and clinically carved out and sent back to Israel for sale on the flourishing international and national black market for human parts!
I will not speak of the mass rape and group sodomy that Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN are subjected to by the Israeli Army.
I will not speak about the fact that the Israeli Army are using shells containing internationally-banned white phosphorus and that they have launched more than a thousand artillery strikes on densely populated areas since the start of their bloody war on the Gaza Strip on 7 October.
I will not speak about the fact that they burn little children from head to toe with their flame throwers, Nepam bombs and white phosphorus shells and the fact that the few that are left alive suffer the most excruciating form of unbearable pain before they eventually die.
I know this because I have seen the videos and they are far too troubling and graphic for me to post or share.
They were sent to me by my friend and brother His Excellency Abdullah Abu Sawesh, the Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria
After watching them in absolute shock, horror and disbelief I wept for the children of Gaza and the people of Palestine and I told him that I honestly believe that all the demons had fled hell and had relocated to the State of Israel.
These are just a few of the unspeakable things and abominable atrocities that are being committed against innocent and defenceless Palestinians in the name of waging war against Hamas by the Jews and frankly it beggars belief and is utterly mind-boggling.
They are targetting and killing women, infants and babies as if they were shooting fish in a barrel.
All this yet the world sits back and does NOTHING whilst what is fast developing into the greatest massacre of non-combatants and civilians by one of the world’s most powerful armies is taking place right under our noses and before our eyes.
What a tragedy this is and what a terrible stain on humanity.
Yet despite the horrors that the Jews are subjecting the Palestinians to they insist on rejoicing about their shameless barbarity and unconciable cruelty with loud roars of triumph and wild, far-fetched notions and claims of victory.
Unknown to them, this so-called “victory” comes at a great cost.
I say this because given the savagery and barbarity that we are witnessing in Gaza, many are of the view that the Jewish state may have proved her historical and modern-day detractors right and FORFEITED her right to exist.
The notion that she should be wiped off the face of the earth is beginning to gain traction and appear attractive to millions of people throughout the world.
The relentless madness and murderous disposition of Prime Minister Bibi “Satanyahu”, the blood-lusting barbarity of the Israeli Defence Force and the insidious and malevolent intention of the Zionist lunatic fringe to unleash the world’s second holocaust on the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank and effect what Adolf Hitler described as the “Final Solution” by eliminating and exterminating every single Palestinian man, woman and child on the face of the earth have made many reconsider their position and come to the chilling conclusion that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran and all the other notable individuals and state and non-state actors in world history and from time immemorial who believed that the Jews and the State of Israel should be erased from existence may have had a point.
Let me be clear.
As a strong believer in the resolutions of the Oslo Accords and the “two-state solution” and a believer in justice, equity and the Jewish state’s right to exist, I do NOT share this view and neither do I believe that Israel could ever be wiped out but if truth be told, as a consequence of events in Gaza and particularly the wilful and premeditated slaughter of women and children, many that think like me are beginning to reconsider their views.
Worse still most people, quite erroneously in my view, no longer care to make a distinction between Zionism and Judaism and, as each day passes, they say more and more that the Jews and the Zionists are one and the same and are BOTH the enemies of not just the Arabs but of the whole of humanity!
That is where “Satanyahu” and his insidious supremacist philosophy, racist disposition and apartheid mindset has taken his country.
He has made more enemies for the Jews than any other leader in their 6000 year history.
Permit me to shed more light on his dark and sinister mindset and that of those that are members of his inner circle by sharing the following.
A few days ago on X @CensoredMen posted the following insightful and revealing contribution titled “Netanyahu’s Superstars”.
They wrote,
“Benjamin Netanyahu has a wide range of personalities serving inside his government but two names in particular separate themselves from the rest.
These two people are: Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security Minister of Israel) and Bezalel Yoel Smotich (Finance Minister of Israel)
Before we continue I want you to know that these two men were PERSONALLY appointed by Netanyahu to their positions.
Now let us go through their highlight reels.
Itamar Ben-Gvir:
⁃ He believes that the Jewish tradition of spitting on Christians, Priests and Churches is perfectly fine and should NOT be punishable by law.
⁃ He is a firm Israeli Supremacist.
He proved this when he said:
‘The right of me, my wife and my children to move around the West Bank is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs.’
⁃ He has pulled a gun on multiple Palestinian parking attendants in Tel Aviv.
⁃ He was notorious for having a portrait of Baruch Goldstein on his wall.
For those who do not know, Baruch was an American-Israeli terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinian worshipers in Hebron in 1994.
⁃ In June, he entered Al-Aqsa Mosque and declared Israel “in charge” to deliberately cause tension.
⁃ He has been convicted of all the following:
Incitement to racism.
Destroying property.
Possessing a “terror” organization’s propaganda material.
Supporting a “terror” organization.
Now that you have the rundown of Israel’s National Security Minister, let’s move onto Israel’s Finance Minister.
Bezalel Smotrich:
– In 2016 Smotrich made a statement in which he said Jewish mothers should not share maternity wards with Arab mothers.
– In February 2023 he was in favour of “wiping out” a Palestinian village and called for the Palestinian town of Huwara to be “erased”.
– In March 2023 he said “there is no such thing as Palestine and there are no such people as Palestinians.”
– In March 2023, Smotrich visited France and spoke at a podium featuring a map of “Greater Israel”.
“Greater Israel” includes:
The entirety of Palestine
The entirety of Jordan
Parts of Iraq
Parts of Lebanon
Parts of Syria
Parts of Egypt
Parts of Turkey
Parts of Saudi Arabia
I refer to these two as “Netanyahu’s Superstars”.
Why?
Because no matter what they say or do Netanyahu will always defend them and refuses to remove them from their positions inside the Israeli Government.
I hope this tweet gave you a better understanding of the mentality of Israel’s leadership”.
This is a useful contribution from @CensoredMen and I commend them for their courage.
It is not only disturbing but also revealing and one wonders whether there is any other Government in the world that harbours such deranged, psychopathic, vicious and Nazi-like thugs at the highest level within its ranks .
Could this have been the mindset that Adolf Hitler, another monster of history and author of the infamous and rabidly racist treatise titled ‘Mein Kampf’ (My Struggle), envisioned many years ago and attempted to warn the world against?
To be sure I deplore Hitler and all that he stood for and I have nothing but contempt for his Nazis and their despicable Aryan dream and vision.
Needless to say I wholeheartedly and categorically condemn EVERYTHING that they said and did to the Jews, the Slavs, the Gypsies, the homosexuals, the disabled, the deformed and indeed the rest of humanity but my question is pertinent and needs to be answered.
That question is whether it is possible that Hitler prophetically foresaw and envisioned a mirror of his evil self in the Satanyahu’s of this world and decided to rid us of the insidious Zionist plot and barbarous plague that lay many years ahead?
Much like the murderous, homicidal, conniving, treacherous, cruel, insidious and dark soul depicted in the Holy Bible by the name of Haman, Hitler wanted to kill all the Jews, wipe out their faith and take their land, worldly possessions and money whilst todays Jewish Zionists want to kill all the Arabs, wipe out their faith and take away all that they have.
Is it not an irony of fate that yesterday’s victims of terror, racism and genocide are today the greatest oppressors, terrorists and perpetrators of ethnic and religious cleansing?
Are the Zionists, led by Bibi and the lunatics in his cabinet, any different from Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goring, Hess and all the other German Nazis?
The latter caused the death of no less than 50 million people in WW11 and the former may well cause the death of billions in what may end up being WW111.
Are the two not one and the same?
We can debate this from morning till night but the little Palestinian girl who has lost her entire family, including her parents, grandparents and siblings and that was beaten to a pulp, raped, sodomised, mutilated and burnt alive by the heartless butchers of the Israeli Defence Force will certainly tell you that there is no difference at all.
She will confirm to anyone that cares to listen that both the German Nazis and the Jewish Zionists are two sides of the same coin and that the only difference is that the latter literally own and control the United States of America and indeed the Western world.
Is it any wonder that South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to probe the State of Israel for genocide in Gaza?
Just last week in an open letter that yours truly wrote to Satanyahu titled, “An Open Letter To Bibi” I submitted that he was mentally ill and that he needed psychiatric evaluation and treatment.
My assessment was borne out of an honestly held opinion and strong conviction and not malice and my observation and counsel was later confirmed by no less a person than the famous Hollywood blockbuster film producer Roger Stone who said, in a widely publicised television interview a few days ago, that he had met Satanyahu and that based on what he had told him and the way he behaved at that meeting he had no doubt that the man was “raving mad”.
Stone’s assertion and assessment of the Israeli Prime Minister’s failing mental health coupled with the revelations by @Censoredmen exposing the reckless sociopaths and psychopaths that he insists on keeping in his cabinet has confirmed my views about Satanyahu.
He is totally and completely unhinged and the fact that his nation has a nuclear bomb which he has the power to set off at any time is indeed a sobering and frightful thought.
Something needs to be done before it is too late and the sooner the people of Israel insist on a ceasefire in Gaza, bring an end to the war, remove Satanyahu from power and either jail him or hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he will undoubtedly be successfully prosecuted and handed a life sentence for genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity and infanticide, the better.
Yesterday the world rose up and came to the aid of the Jews when Hitler sought to eliminate them.
Today the world WILL rise up and come to the aid of the Palestinians.
It is just a matter of time.
O Israel, once loved and cherished by virtually all, you have now become a stench to everyone’s nose.
What a tragedy!
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Photo credit: Maxar Technologies
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2023 has been a huge test for the U.S. entertainment industry. The remnants of COVID-19, historic strikes which saw the end of work for several months, the rise of streaming platforms changing the rules of the game. But despite significant assaults on the business, U.S. cinema has been surprisingly resilient, according to one entertainment expert.
Karen Krizanovich, a film journalist and writer based in Chicago, shared her insights on the evolving landscape of the U.S. entertainment industry with CGTN Europe, shedding some light on the challenges and trends that emerged in 2023.
One of the key events this year, she said, was when more than 170,000 people working in the U.S. entertainment business, including high profile actors, walked out on their jobs. One of the biggest examples of industrial action in the industry, the strike came about over the dramatic changes in the industry following the arrival of online streaming services like Netflix and the possibility of computer-generated script writing.
Reflecting on the aftermath of the four-month-long hiatus, Krizanovich explained that many productions were halted, others were delayed, while a few proceeded as scheduled. But the extended period of crew unemployment prompted a scramble to resume productions, creating a domino effect, impacting numerous projects.
"The knock on effect is, number one, we've got a huge industry that's desperate for work and really in bad trouble as far as that goes," Krizanovich told CGTN Europe. "But also the studios and smaller independents are really wondering about where their money's going to go best and where they're going to optimize this need for new productions."
One of the key events this year was when more than 170,000 people working
Krizanovich also addressed the uncertainty surrounding anticipated movie releases. Several highly anticipated films, including the second part of 'Dune', faced delays as studios refrained from releasing them without a robust promotional strategy.
"The studios are not going to release these unless they've got other things in the pipeline. So this is why they're holding back," she said. The absence of proper film promotions, owing to the strikes, further complicated release plans.
"If you think about it, films are promoted by their actors," said Krizanovich. "At film festivals, we've had the designers and the directors talking, which has been really strange."
Despite the ongoing knock on effect, that will now change. And luckily, it wasn't all doom and gloom for Hollywood this year.
Barbenheimer
Two standout movies of 2023, 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer', have given new hope for the industry, Krizanovich said, stating they had been significant contributors to reinvigorating the cinematic experience after COVID-19.
"They've done very, very well. Gerta Gerwig's Barbie has earned over $1.18 billion so far, and it's still delighting audiences all over the place. And Oppenheimer, which is three hours of science and spectacular visuals, has done almost 1 billion itself," said Krizanovich.
Regarding the impact on cinema attendance, Krizanovich said these films had reignited 'event cinema'. She stressed the significance of such large-scale productions in drawing audiences back to theaters, fostering an environment for shared experiences.
Essentially, they put the family fun back in move-going. And while the industry hasn't fully rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, she was optimistic about the gradual return of audiences to cinemas.
Meanwhile, in the world of streaming wars, Netflix has maintained its lead this year, followed distantly by Hulu. Krizanovich said the revelation of viewership data by Netflix had been a game-changer - the release of which was demanded during the writers' and actors' strike - providing critical insights into the streaming platform's success.
But there was an evolving dichotomy with streaming and movie-going where audiences are starting to weigh the decision between watching content at home or experiencing it in theaters, she said.
"I think streaming is here to stay. I think it's good television like HBO used to be," she stressed. "But I think the world is expanding in terms of what's available for people to watch in filmed entertainment."