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CROSSFIREARABIA – If it was up to him, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich would starve to death the over two million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. He said such action would be “justified and moral”.
His comments are trending on the social media.
However, he added the international community wouldn’t allow us to do it. “We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned,” Smotrich told a conference hosted by Israel’s Hayom daily newspaper according to Anadolu.
“Humanitarian in exchange for humanitarian is morally justified, but what can we do? We live today in a certain reality, we need international legitimacy for this war,” he added.
One blogger has called him a “fanatic terrorist settler” while another says ‘this racist monster doesn’t know the true meaning of justice and morality.”
Smotrich’s comments have “sparked outrage reflecting a disturbing rhetoric that is interpreted as indicative of genocidal intent,” states Al Mayadeen English.
“The Nazi-like genocidal intent of apartheid Israel is unmistakable in Smotrich’s criminal words,” says Professor Jonathan Moyo, former minister of higher education in Zimbabwe.
“We are bringing in aid because there is no choice,” Smotrich said, calling for Israel to have full control over what enters the Palestinian enclave.
The far-right minister reiterated his opposition to any prisoner swap deal with Hamas, claiming that current cease-fire proposals are “unjust and unethical” as they would only return a few hostages and jeopardize state security, Anadolu stated.
He also expressed his opposition to releasing Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages, asserting that they would “return to kill Jews.”
Moreover, Smotrich reiterated his controversial stance on the resettlement of the Gaza Strip, claiming that: “Where there is no settlement, there is terror.”
But Gaza is already being starved through an Israeli imposed crippling blockade instituted on the Strip since the 7 October, 2023 Hamas attack, leaving the territory’s entire population on the verge of famine.
Thousands of aid trucks stand idle on the Rafah border unable to get into Gaza because of the Israeli big guns. What is being allowed is only a trickle to feed a hungry population who are dying because they are being starved.
This has been the case for the last 10 months with Israel turning the transport and entry taps as it pleases.
