Bezalel Smotrich is the most ultra minister of the already ultra Government of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. As expected, Smotrich was quick to show his rejection of Donald Trump’s plan and has asked to continue the siege of the Gaza Strip. “immediately after the abductees return home.” Smotrich has made it clear that his party, the far-right Religious Zionist Party, will vote against the agreement reached between Hamas and Israel.
For the Israeli Finance Minister, no “kidnapped in exchange for stopping the war” deal should be carried out. “The State of Israel will continue to strive with all its might to truly eradicate Hamas and truly demilitarize Gaza so that it no longer represents an emanation for Israel,” he wrote on social media.
In his opinion, Israel should not return “to the concepts of October 6” or surrender “to artificial silence, political hugs and smiling ceremonies while mortgaging its future and paying a terrible price.” For all these reasons, he has positioned himself totally against international intermediation to put an end to the genocide. “It is an obligation to ensure that we do not return to the Oslo path”he said in reference to the 1993 pact.
Smotrich once stated that it was “justified and moral” to let the two million inhabitants of Gaza die of hunger and thirst in order to achieve the release of the Israeli hostages, words that by inciting “hatred towards innocent civilians”.
In addition to the ban on entering Spain, Smotrich is one of the ministers sanctioned by several international governments such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, among other things for being the ideologue of the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Just a few days ago, and while Donald Trump claimed to be negotiating a peace plan for Gaza, Smotrich assured that Gaza was a “real estate gold mine” and advanced that there was “a business plan for the Strip on President Trump’s table.” “We have completed the demolition phase. Now we have to build”said.
