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Smotrich at Knesset: Ben-Gurion should have ‘finished the job,’ thrown out Arabs
"Shimon Peres doubts Israel can win Permanent war or Survive Annexation of West Bank
"SPIEGEL Interview with Israeli President Shimon Peres""
Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman decries the ‘fascist filth’ to which she says Arabs are regularly subjected
By Amy Spiro 13 October 2021, 6:58 pm
Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich addresses a Knesset plenum session
on the state budget on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Speaking from the Knesset plenum on Wednesday, far-right Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smotrich said David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, should have “finished the job” and kicked all Arabs out of the country when it was founded.
During comments on a contentious immigration bill proposed by the opposition, Smotrich shouted about the need to maintain Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state. “Yes, Jewish, with a Jewish majority,” he called out. “With security for the citizens of the State of Israel.”
Smotrich was heckled by several Arab Knesset members and retorted: “I’m not speaking to you, anti-Zionists, terror supporters, enemies,” he said. “You’re here by mistake, it’s a mistake that Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948.”
In response, Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman slammed Smotrich’s “fascist” remarks.
“We are subject to this fascist filth almost every day in the Knesset,” said Touma-Sliman. “But don’t think about us. Think about how every Arab citizen feels when a statement like this is made casually in the parliament. Think about how every young [Arab] feels when the right-wing threatens a second Nakba,” she added, using the Arabic word for disaster, which Palestinians use to refer to the founding of the State of Israel.
Far-right activists sometimes use the concept of a “second Nakba” as a threat to Arabs.
Smotrich was reacting with outrage to the failure of a bill brought by his fellow party MK Simcha Rotman aimed at changing the Law of Return and revising Israeli immigration policies.
[INSERT: brooklyn13, Seems to me it is incorrect for you to say -- "I don't agree with this bill, but your maps are deceiving. There was never a Palestine previously...
[...]
conix, So you bring back the age-old, anti-free debate idea that you cannot be critical of Zionist (non-democratic) Israel without being antisemitic. It's a cheap effort to distract from the antidemocratic efforts of the clearly and fairly seen fascist tendencies of Trump's GOP. Some repeated on that at bottom.
[...]
Israel’s 1952 Citizenship Law at its outset notes that the state grants citizenship via four routes: (1) “return,” (2) “residence in Israel,” (3) birth, and (4) naturalization.[572] Israel reserves the first path, “return,” exclusively for Jews. This path grows out of the 1950 “Law of Return,” which guarantees Jewish citizens of other countries the right to settle in Israel.[573] The Citizenship Law states that Jews already living in Israel at the time gain citizenship via this path, as opposed to the “residence in Israel” one.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170035250]
The bill failed 45-57, with coalition MKs, including Yamina, voting against the law. The Religious Zionism MK said he had no expectation for the support of the Joint List MKs, who he labeled enemies, but was horrified to see right-wing members of Knesset oppose the bill.
The opposition, including Smotrich and his party, had previously voted down legislation proposed by the coalition to limit immigration.
Smotrich has a long history of making inflammatory and outlandish statements. In August, he implied .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-smotrich-blasted-for-saying-gay-pride-parade-touched-off-virus-wave/ .. that the Tel Aviv gay pride parade in June touched off a new wave of coronavirus infections. In April, he warned .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-warns-of-unrest-if-mandelblit-tries-to-disqualify-netanyahu-as-pm/ .. of civil unrest if the attorney general disqualified Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government due to his indictment on corruption charges. And earlier the same month, he said .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-party-leader-arabs-are-citizens-of-israel-for-now-at-least/ .. during remarks at a faction meeting that “Arabs are citizens of Israel, for now, at least. They have representatives, MKs, for now at least.”
He’s also called in the past for Israel’s justice system to be based on biblical law.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-at-knesset-ben-gurion-should-have-finished-the-job-thrown-out-arabs/
See also:
It’s too late for a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119715629
This is a lengthy read and has references that are lengthier still... but it's good.
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story638.html
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From the beginning, Zionists advocated a "Jewish State" not just in Palestine, but also in Jordan, southern Lebanon, and the Golan Heights as well. In 1918 Ben-Gurion described the future "Jewish state's" frontiers in details as follows:
P - "to the north, the Litani river [in southern Lebanon], to the northeast, the Wadi 'Owja, twenty miles south of Damascus; the southern border will be mobile and pushed into Sinai at least up to Wadi al-'Arish; and to the east, the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Transjordan" (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 87) Click here to view the "Greater Israel" map that was submitted by the Zionists to the peace conference after WWI.
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https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=157715719
.. and in reply ..
Greater Israel, exactly. Every time i think of the Lebanon troubles now i think of that Zionist ultimate goal. One of a few posts on it:
P - The Yesha Council is the organization that supports the West Bank settlers so it's not surprising it's chairman, David Elhayani,
would be against any interruption of further occupation of what the international community fairly sees as occupied land.
P - "‘He misled everyone!’ Israeli leader fumes at Jared Kushner as Trump’s ‘peace plan’ spirals down the drain"
[...] Trump Releases Mideast Peace Plan That Strongly Favors Israel
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=157716687
"Shimon Peres doubts Israel can win Permanent war or Survive Annexation of West Bank
"SPIEGEL Interview with Israeli President Shimon Peres""
Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman decries the ‘fascist filth’ to which she says Arabs are regularly subjected
By Amy Spiro 13 October 2021, 6:58 pm
Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich addresses a Knesset plenum session
on the state budget on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Speaking from the Knesset plenum on Wednesday, far-right Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smotrich said David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, should have “finished the job” and kicked all Arabs out of the country when it was founded.
During comments on a contentious immigration bill proposed by the opposition, Smotrich shouted about the need to maintain Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state. “Yes, Jewish, with a Jewish majority,” he called out. “With security for the citizens of the State of Israel.”
Smotrich was heckled by several Arab Knesset members and retorted: “I’m not speaking to you, anti-Zionists, terror supporters, enemies,” he said. “You’re here by mistake, it’s a mistake that Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948.”
In response, Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman slammed Smotrich’s “fascist” remarks.
“We are subject to this fascist filth almost every day in the Knesset,” said Touma-Sliman. “But don’t think about us. Think about how every Arab citizen feels when a statement like this is made casually in the parliament. Think about how every young [Arab] feels when the right-wing threatens a second Nakba,” she added, using the Arabic word for disaster, which Palestinians use to refer to the founding of the State of Israel.
Far-right activists sometimes use the concept of a “second Nakba” as a threat to Arabs.
Smotrich was reacting with outrage to the failure of a bill brought by his fellow party MK Simcha Rotman aimed at changing the Law of Return and revising Israeli immigration policies.
[INSERT: brooklyn13, Seems to me it is incorrect for you to say -- "I don't agree with this bill, but your maps are deceiving. There was never a Palestine previously...
[...]
conix, So you bring back the age-old, anti-free debate idea that you cannot be critical of Zionist (non-democratic) Israel without being antisemitic. It's a cheap effort to distract from the antidemocratic efforts of the clearly and fairly seen fascist tendencies of Trump's GOP. Some repeated on that at bottom.
[...]
Israel’s 1952 Citizenship Law at its outset notes that the state grants citizenship via four routes: (1) “return,” (2) “residence in Israel,” (3) birth, and (4) naturalization.[572] Israel reserves the first path, “return,” exclusively for Jews. This path grows out of the 1950 “Law of Return,” which guarantees Jewish citizens of other countries the right to settle in Israel.[573] The Citizenship Law states that Jews already living in Israel at the time gain citizenship via this path, as opposed to the “residence in Israel” one.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170035250]
The bill failed 45-57, with coalition MKs, including Yamina, voting against the law. The Religious Zionism MK said he had no expectation for the support of the Joint List MKs, who he labeled enemies, but was horrified to see right-wing members of Knesset oppose the bill.
The opposition, including Smotrich and his party, had previously voted down legislation proposed by the coalition to limit immigration.
Smotrich has a long history of making inflammatory and outlandish statements. In August, he implied .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-smotrich-blasted-for-saying-gay-pride-parade-touched-off-virus-wave/ .. that the Tel Aviv gay pride parade in June touched off a new wave of coronavirus infections. In April, he warned .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-warns-of-unrest-if-mandelblit-tries-to-disqualify-netanyahu-as-pm/ .. of civil unrest if the attorney general disqualified Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government due to his indictment on corruption charges. And earlier the same month, he said .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-party-leader-arabs-are-citizens-of-israel-for-now-at-least/ .. during remarks at a faction meeting that “Arabs are citizens of Israel, for now, at least. They have representatives, MKs, for now at least.”
He’s also called in the past for Israel’s justice system to be based on biblical law.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-at-knesset-ben-gurion-should-have-finished-the-job-thrown-out-arabs/
See also:
It’s too late for a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119715629
This is a lengthy read and has references that are lengthier still... but it's good.
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story638.html
---
From the beginning, Zionists advocated a "Jewish State" not just in Palestine, but also in Jordan, southern Lebanon, and the Golan Heights as well. In 1918 Ben-Gurion described the future "Jewish state's" frontiers in details as follows:
P - "to the north, the Litani river [in southern Lebanon], to the northeast, the Wadi 'Owja, twenty miles south of Damascus; the southern border will be mobile and pushed into Sinai at least up to Wadi al-'Arish; and to the east, the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Transjordan" (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 87) Click here to view the "Greater Israel" map that was submitted by the Zionists to the peace conference after WWI.
---
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=157715719
.. and in reply ..
Greater Israel, exactly. Every time i think of the Lebanon troubles now i think of that Zionist ultimate goal. One of a few posts on it:
P - The Yesha Council is the organization that supports the West Bank settlers so it's not surprising it's chairman, David Elhayani,
would be against any interruption of further occupation of what the international community fairly sees as occupied land.
P - "‘He misled everyone!’ Israeli leader fumes at Jared Kushner as Trump’s ‘peace plan’ spirals down the drain"
[...] Trump Releases Mideast Peace Plan That Strongly Favors Israel
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=157716687
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