Top Israeli Extremist Calls for 'Total Annihilation' in Rafah, Invokes 'Amalek'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to invade southern Gaza city.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s extremist finance minister, on Monday called for the IDF to turn Rafah into a wasteland.
“There are no half measures,” he said, according to Haaretz. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. ‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven’ – there's no place under heaven.”
His comments came the same day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to invade the war-battered city.
“We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate Hamas’ battalions there — with or without a deal, to achieve the total victory,” he said, according to the AP.
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Smotrich went on to say that once Israel smashes Hamas, it will have to “clear out, with God's help, with one blow, wicked Hezbollah in the north, and really send a message that what will happen to those who harm the Jewish people is the same as those who have tried to harm us in the past – they will be destroyed, destroyed, destroyed. And it will echo for decades to come.”
TRENDPOST: Our readers are familiar with Smotrich, who, long before the Hamas attack, called on Israeli forces to wipe out an entire Palestinian village earlier this year. He has endorsed the all-out bombing campaign and initially rejected calls for a ceasefire—even if it meant no release of hostages. (He later approved of the ceasefire, only after he was assured Israel would continue its bombing campaign after the temporary pause.)
Smotrich called the decision to allow two fuel trucks to enter Gaza a “grave mistake.” The amount of fuel was considered a pittance for what was needed in hospitals and homes.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Netanyahu’s minister overseeing Israel’s police, agreed with Smotrich at the time: “So long as our hostages don’t even get a visit from the Red Cross, there’s no sense in giving the enemy humanitarian gifts.”
Netanyahu has called the current war in Gaza a holy war and said during a recent press conference that Israelis would do well to remember “what Amalek has done to you.”
The New York Times, citing scholars, reported that the comment was meant as a call to exterminate Palestinian “men and women, children, and infants.”
In December, Aryeh Yitzhak King, the far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem who represents the mindset of Israel’s extremist Knesset, posted on X that the IDF should save itself the trouble and just bury alive hundreds of captured Palestinians.
“If it were up to me, I would have dispatched D-9 bulldozers and put them behind the mounds of dirt and would have given the order to cover all these hundreds of ants, while they’re still alive,” he said.
Last month, Eliyahu Mali, Israel’s top rabbi in Jaffa, said the Torah calls for the killing of all Palestinian men, women, children, and babies in Gaza, stating that there should not be a soul still alive after the conflict.
“Don’t leave a soul alive … not only 14, 16-year-old lads … also the next generation. And those who create the future generation,” he said, according to Al Mayadeen.
He was asked if babies should be included in the genocide.
“Same thing. You can’t outsmart the Torah,’” he said.
Mali said the mass killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “is permissible according to the halakhic principles,” or Jewish Law. The report said halakhic principles are divine law among Orthodox Jews such as Mali.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has been reporting since January 2023, and that is that the Israeli Knesset is packed with racists and extremists who have called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the territory long before the Hamas attack on 7 October.