Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich on Monday excoriated the Biden administration, accusing them of “unparalleled hypocrisy” for the State Department’s recent criticism of how Israel protects its citizens against Arab terror in Yehudah and Shomron.
Smotrich’s remarks came in the wake of the State Department’s condemnation of comments by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir following the murder of Batsheva Nigri, H’yd, near Chevron. Ben-Gvir said on a Channel 12 News panel last week: “My right and that of my wife and my children to travel on the roads of Yehudah and Shomron is more important than freedom of movement for Arabs.” Addressing an Arab-Israeli journalist on the panel, he added: “Sorry Mohammad. That’s the reality, the truth. My right to life takes precedence over freedom of movement.”
Not surprisingly, Israeli leftists pounced on his comments as “racist,” implying that Israelis should allow themselves to be killed rather than place any limitations on the “innocent until proven guilty” Palestinians.
The State Department lost no time in joining the bandwagon, issuing a condemnatory statement against Ben-Gvir. “We strongly condemn Minister Ben-Gvir’s inflammatory comments on the freedom of movement of Palestinian residents of the West Bank,” the statement said. “We condemn all racist rhetoric; as such messages are particularly damaging when amplified by those in leadership positions and are incongruent with advancing respect for human rights for all.”
Smotrich responded by saying: “Anyone who attacks us in the world is hypocritical. There’s no nation that has waged a battle of survival against murderous terror for decades in a cleaner and more cautious way than the Jewish nation. I won’t mention the Americans and how they operated in Afghanistan and Iraq. They shouldn’t preach to us about human rights, not to the IDF nor to us on a state level. That is unparalleled hypocrisy. There’s no nation more moral than Israel and no army more moral than the IDF.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The Left is burning 🔥 up the land.
Lapid, Ehud the left with the help of SD are torching the land for power grab.
If you can’t buy power it burn it.
If you can’t control the people it then destroy it.
“Let blood flow through” river – as said by ex PM- because Ehud ( a failed kiss axx of Yaser Arafat ) wants to be prime minister so he can given Hamas direct underground tunnel and freedom of movement from Gaza to West Bank. Bank on that.
Who do you trust
Lapid Ben Lapid
Ehud
Olmert ?
The right to live!! To life!! Do they get part?!
Did they even make a statement to condemn the killings?!!
What hypocrisy!!
Further, Mr. Smotrich, there was no world outcry against Putin when he recently rubbed out an enemy and cared not a nary about the collateral deaths, the inevitable deaths, that came along with his rub-out. Israel, who uses knocker bombs during war to forewarn innocent civilians about an impending bomb only gets lambasted and ridiculed and even summoned to the Hague on war crimes. Pure hypocrisy!
The entire world restricted people’s freedom of movement during the WuFlu plandemic, supposedly in the name of everyone’s right to life. So I call BS to the United Sodom and Amorrah’s faux outrage.
The media only quoted part of Ben Gvir’s statement, they left out the part of the right to life.
But it should be obvious that all people should be able to travel on roads without fear of getting attacked.
Smotrich is speaking frankly, which is not the way of most politicians, I appreciate it.
“There’s no nation more moral than Israel and no army more moral than the IDF”.
If this outlandish/exasporous lie wouldn’t be so sad I’d burst out laughing.
Honestly who are we fooling?!?!
The most moral army in the world?!
Like people don’t know about the abortion rates in the IDF (ACTUALLY unparalleled to the rest of the world)?
What’s the defining explanation of “morality” exactly?!
And what about the infamously outright racism against “frum” soldiers being forced chazir etc?! morals…hhhmmm…
No nation more moral than…. Israel… Right…. Go try to fool us.
What’s moral about Israel exactly?
Forcing a train through an orthodox neigbourhood at huge losses in order to acheive an aim of racism and religion htred?!
Or how about forcing religious people into the army?!
Or maybe the fact that only North Korea and one other country (i Don’t remember the name right now) shares Israel policy of drafting girls into the army?!
honestly!!!