Netanyahu's Messianic Coalition Partners

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Opinion | Netanyahu's
Messianic Coalition
Partners Want an All-out
Regional War. Gaza Is Just a
First Step
The ultimate aim of this gang is "purging"
the West Bank of its Palestinian inhabitants,
cleansing the Temple Mount of its Muslim
worshippers and annexing the territories to
the state of Israel. This aim will not be
achieved without extensive violent conflict.
Armageddon
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Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, in 2022. Credit: Eliyahu
Hershkovitz
The supreme aim of the far-right duo

National Security Minister Itamar
Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel
Ehud
Olmert Smotrich is not the occupation of the
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Gaza Strip.
Feb 22, 2024
Even settlement throughout the
devastated Strip is not the final goal of
the bunch of messianic hallucinators
that has seized power in the state of
Israel. Gaza is just the introductory
chapter, the platform this gang wants
to build as the foundation upon which
the real fight they are eyeing will be
conducted: the battle for the West
Bank and the Temple Mount.
The ultimate aim of this gang is

"purging" the West Bank of its
Palestinian inhabitants, cleansing the
Temple Mount of its Muslim
worshippers and annexing the
territories to the state of Israel. The
way to achieve this goal is blood-
soaked. Israeli blood, in the state and
in the territories it has been
controlling for 57 years now, as well as
Jewish blood in places elsewhere in the
world. As well as a lot of Palestinian
blood, of course, in the territories, in
Jerusalem and if there is no alternative
– also among Arab citizens of Israel.
Israel's worst-ever government

20%
wants to let the country burn
'100-200,000, not two million':
Israel's finance minister envisions
depopulated Gaza
Israel's far-right must let the public
judge its policies in an early election
This aim will not be achieved without
extensive violent conflict.
Armageddon. All-out war. In the
south, in Jerusalem, in the territories
of the West Bank and to the extent
necessary also on the northern border.
Such a war will bolster the impression
that we are fighting for our lives, for
our very existence. In a war for
survival, it is permissible to do
insufferable things, and the hilltop
youth are proving daily that among
them are many who are capable of
precisely that.
This gang of pogromists has been
successful in the first stage prior to the
uproar and all-out war that they
apparently hope will erupt here. They
have taken control of the government
of Israel and have made the man who
heads it into their servant. The
possibility that they will dismantle the
government and kick the prime
minister out of running the matters of
state is not outlandish. It is a process
that is taking place at this very
moment, step by step.
First, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich decided

in effect to sacrifice the hostages. With
30%
the intention of preventing the
possibility of an end to the successful
military campaign that has thus far
brought impressive successes to the
Israel Defense Forces, even if at a high
price. It is clear that we are far from
"total victory." Such a victory is not
possible. Even if the military action
continues for many more months, the
price it is exacting is not worth the
"vision" of a victory there is no real
possibility of achieving.
Continuing the military action now

will drag Israel into Rafah – and that is
what they want. Such a move will
palpably and immediately endanger
the peace agreement between Israel
and Egypt. There is no doubt that
Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab
Emirates and also the Palestinian
Authority and Saudi Arabia are all
hoping for Hamas to crash and
collapse. However, Egypt knows there
is a considerable chance that
continuation of Israeli military activity
will stir the Muslim Brotherhood out
of its dormancy.
Egypt has already seen how the
Egyptian regime imposed harsh
military discipline to block those
fundamentalist extremist elements. It
was not able to withstand
demonstrations by hundreds of
thousands at Tahrir Square in the
heart of the capital, Cairo. Only
40% tremendous effort, with tacit backing
from the international community,
enabled more moderate elements
headed by President Abdel-Fattah al-
Sissi to take back control in Egypt and
lead it as a diplomatic and military
entity that is helping to stabilize the
Middle East.
Sissi and the military leadership will

not take a risk that is liable to plunge
Egypt into chaos from which it will be
difficult to save itself. Continuation of
the military campaign in Rafah, which
is overcrowded with more than a
million Palestinians, is exactly the fuse
that will ignite the streets of Egypt's
cities, and after that also those in
Jordan – another country whose
relations with Israel are essential to
our security.
Before events degenerate, we will be

facing several Arab countries that will
have lost the remnants of the trust
they have in the ability to create a
relationship based on cooperation with
Israel. However, the United States of
America – the ally that inspiringly
leapt to help Israel in its moment of
unprecedented crisis, when the
government was in shock and its
leader had lost his last shreds of good
judgment and responsibility – will
take measures that will shake up
Israel's ability to conduct the military
50% and diplomatic battle and its economic
stability.
Amid all this, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has decided to set the
Temple Mount on fire. When the riots
start around freedom of worship for
the Muslim citizens of Israel and the
Palestinians from the West Bank and
Jerusalem – an extensive wave of
terror will crest. This decision is
deserving of special condemnation in
light of the recent manifestations by
Israeli Arab citizens of responsibility
and solidarity with the distress their
country is experiencing.
Israeli police accompanying Jewish visitors to the Temple
Mount on Sunday. Credit: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
Instead of respecting the Arab

community's solidarity, Netanyahu
and Ben-Gvir are antagonizing it and
inciting against it. Every reasonable
person can certainly see this inevitable
dynamic. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich and
with them the violent hilltop youth
and many others in the territories,
who are still maintaining a degree of
60%
restraint, also understand this.
There is no way to explain their

conduct apart from the understanding
that this is exactly what they want.
This is what they are hoping for. And
when the wave of terror erupts, the
messianic hallucinators will explain to
us that force is necessary to prevent
terror. Thus, war will seethe
throughout the West Bank.
And we haven't said anything yet
about the northern border. It is
possible to try to reach understandings
with Lebanon about a solution to the
border issue, which could tame the
flames that have already been lit there
and have forced tens of thousands of
Israelis to flee their homes.
Possibly sensible, restrained
management without boastful
declarations and endless threats will
create an equation that will enable
Hezbollah to depict the appearance of
an achievement by a solution to the
years-long conflict focused on a few
points along the current border and
justify withdrawal to the line north of
Lebanon's Litani River. This would
enable Israel to restore the feeling of
security to inhabitants of the Galilee
and bring them home for another 17
years of quiet. As was accomplished by
the Second Lebanon War.
But Ben-Gvir and Smotrich do not
70%
want quiet on the northern front. A
war there too will only reinforce the
claim that there is no choice but to
destroy all our enemies, on all the
fronts, in all the sectors – whatever
the price of this conflict may be.
The prime minister understands the
inevitable consequences arising from
this total surrender to the gang of
pogromists that controls his
government. He sees, he understands,
but he collaborates. Ultimately (and
perhaps a priori), Netanyahu is
prepared to relinquish the hostages
and undermine the peace agreements
with Egypt and Jordan, which are
essential pillars in the state of Israel's
security infrastructure.
He is prepared to undermine relations
with the United States to the point of a
visible crisis with the president most
committed ever to Israel's security, Joe
Biden. Netanyahu understands that the
continued reckless process will lead to
Israel's isolation in the international
community as it has never experienced
before. Things are so dire that there is
no way to avoid saying them loud and
clear: Netanyahu, this will end in a lot
more blood. Take heed – you have
been warned.
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The supreme aim of the far-right duo

The ultimate aim of this gang is

Israel's worst-ever government

First, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich decided

Continuing the military action now

Sissi and the military leadership will

Before events degenerate, we will be

Instead of respecting the Arab

There is no way to explain their

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