Israel's Ben Gvir Backs Fellow Israeli Extremist Donald Trump for President
Israel's Ben Gvir Backs Fellow Israeli Extremist Donald Trump for President
Ben Gvir has taken issue with the Biden administration for “giving humanitarian aid and fuel" to Gazans
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s extremist far-right national security minister, officially endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. president because Trump will back Israel for war with Iran.
“With Trump it will be clearer that enemies must be defeated,” he told Bloomberg. “The U.S. has always stood behind Israel in terms of armaments and weapons, yet [during the war in Gaza] the sense was that we were being reckoned with — that we were trying to be prevented from winning. That happened on Biden’s watch and fed Hamas with lots of energy.”
Sen. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s VP pick, wasted little time to show why the former president picked him, and said in an interview that the U.S. needs to stop with little pinpricks against Iran, and “punch Iran hard.”
“A second Trump administration would likely follow a threefold approach. First, provide unconditional and full support to Israel. Second, continue to cement Israel’s legitimacy in the region. And third, force the Palestinian resistance to capitulate. From this perspective, a second Trump term would endorse the hardliners in Israel and enable the deportation of the Palestinians from Gaza,” Burak Elmali, a researcher at TRT World Research Centre in Istanbul, wrote in SCMP.
"We need to punch Iran hard. That's what Trump did with Qasem Soleimani. That action actually brought peace by checking the Iranians,” he said, according to Channel 7. “If you want to check the Iranians, you need to withdraw their oil money, and enable Israel and the Sunni countries to work to counter Iran.”
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Ben-Gvir, the head of the Jewish Power party, was named the country’s national security minister under a deal worked out with Netanyahu in 2022. He was convicted in 2007 of incitement to racism and belonging to a terrorist organization. He has said that all Arabs—a group that makes up about 20 percent of the country—should be deported — a year before the Hamas attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows he runs the U.S. government no matter which party is in power, but the increased likelihood of a Trump presidency has leaders even less interested in a ceasefire deal with Hamas than before—with Bullshit Biden.
Hamas wants a permanent end to the war, but Israel wants to be able to resume the genocide whenever it wants. Benny Gantz, the National Unity chair who resigned from Netanyahu’s government last month, even suggested tricking Hamas into an agreement.
“I want the hostages to return home,” Gantz said in an interview with Channel 12, according to The Times of Israel. “If there is a change in the fighting and our hostages are returned, and we do what needs to be done in the Gaza Strip in a year, or in two years, that’s not an issue,” he said. “I want the hostages home, I want to have strong security, and then we can continue what needs to be continued.”
Netanyahu has faced pressure from fellow extremists in the Knesset who want to press on with the bloodshed in Gaza. He also faces growing pressure from families of hostages who want their loved ones released.
TRENDPOST: Trump has a history of pro-Israel statements as president.
San Diego Jewish World reported that his ties run deep with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the 1980s, his father, Fred Trump, befriended the Jewish leader when he served as the Israeli Ambassador to the UN in New York City.
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, is a member of the Friends of Israel Defense Forces national board, the report noted.