Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, has said that he was given assurances that the war on Gaza would continue and Israel would launch a “gradual takeover of the entire Gaza Strip”.

Smotrich said that Gaza was currently “ruined and disintegrated, uninhabitable” an that it would “remain that way”.

He added: “Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”

Netanyahu said in a video address on Saturday that Israel would continue its war on Gaza in “new, forceful ways” if the second stage of the ceasefire agreement proved to be “futile”.

“President [Donald] Trump and President Biden have given full backing to Israel’s right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile.”

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    This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing

    Does he see the irony in this statement?

    In positive news, the ICJ won’t have anymore issues proving the “intent” part of the genocide claims, he pretty much spelled it out for them.

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    I am surprised how “Israeli” soldiers dont ask these people to be in the front line.

    They siege a refuge camp for almost 2 months, no food or aid enters, no one can leave, all they managed to do was murdering children and women and kidnapping a hospital staff.

    By the end of it, hamas announced they bombed 25 soldiers and rescue teams.

    They literally achieve nothing, other than progressing their genocide plans.

    If they had capture Sinwar alive it could have been some sort of victory, but they show the world he was not hiding in a tunnel nor wearing women clothing, he was doing exactly what he told them he is doing and they made him an inspiration for future generation.

    The generation that will grow without mothers because the genocide attempt.

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      A lot of the pathetic IDF “soldiers” are happy with murdering women and children though. Many have proudly shared videos of their warcrimes online. They dont want to fight against an adversary. They want so slaughter people to further their “Lebensraum” as they consider themselves the superior race.

      FFS Smotrich refered to himself as fascist. Ben Gvir is from the “Jewish Power” party.

      Israel is a country with a strong embrace for open fascism and an even stronger agreement with fascism without calling it that explicitly.

      If they ever want to return from that to sanity it will require a reeducation campaign where every Israeli will need to go through years of reeducation, psychological treatment and a lot of them through years in prison or lifelong imprisonment.

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    “Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”

    Wow.

    It’s astonishing sometimes how deep the delusional evil runs in the Israeli right.

    He starts that statement off trying to claim that the Gazans are “an animalistic society,” and then without missing a beat shifts to doing nothing but vividly demonstrating that in fact he and his allies are the actual animals.

    They truly are among the most foul and loathsome and vile abominations to have ever crawled across the face of the Earth.

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    Will you accept this words with your “civility”? Do you think they deserve any dialogue, these all-consuming monsters? Aren’t you tired of the stockholm syndrome they make you call “peace”?

    Peace was never an option, they made it clear. If demons they want to be then slayers we must become

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    I shouldn’t vote in the US election because I can’t support the Democrats for what they’re doing against Palestine.

    President [Donald] Trump and President Biden have given full backing to Israel’s right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile.

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      I mean if Harris had won it’d be “President Harris and President Biden” so if there’s supposed to be a difference here you’re not highlighting it.

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        Some people were saying Trump would be the better option because he hadn’t done anything in Palestine, so he was the better alternative

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          Noone said Trump was going to be better. We said that the Democrats needed to be punished for supporting genocide and Israelis fascism in an effort to make them reconsider that. This is not about winning an immediate political win, as the US has many people quite contempt with supporting a genocide.

          However in the long run punishing the Democrats for supporting genocide and Israeli fascism will make the party abandon that position or perish to a better progressive party.

          This is why AIPAC gained power in the first place. They established the ability to punish and make the party lose that opposed them. Not to make their supporter win, but to make their opponent lose. This way they made sure that both parties would make the US the little bitch of Israel.

          And now that Harris lost, with many voters being alienated because of the Democratic party supporting the genocide and Israeli fascism, AIPAC is doing overtime to downplay the effect Gaza had on the election and Israel has upped its propaganda budget extensively.

          We are flipping the script and it is working, but it takes more time. And it takes a look beyond the next election, which is why the propaganda effort for the last election was to make all target audiences of the Democratic party just panick over this election instead of thinking long term. This is not just a play by the Israel lobby but also by the “liberal” side of the Oligarchy that are represented by the Democratic party.

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          Is there a peace deal now that his ambassador, Steve Witkoff, forced through?

          Even if it is temporary, that is still better.

          There is no worse then rock bottom. That is where Biden is. The worst you could do is stay in the same place.