WHAT GENOCIDE? Israeli Politician Stands His Ground: Gaza Should be Burned to the Ground
Politician is from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political party
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Nissim Vaturi, a far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said in an interview last week that he stands by his earlier comment that Israel has been too soft in Gaza and should burn the coastal enclave to the ground.
Vaturi said he stands by his comment because it is “better to burn, to bring down buildings than for soldiers to be hurt.”
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The Times of Israel reported that he said the IDF managed to evacuate innocents from northern Gaza and about 100,000 remain.
“I have no mercy for those who are still there. We need to eliminate them,” he said.
He praised the IDF for organizing an “orderly evacuation” of 1.9 million. About 100,000 remain in northern Gaza.
“I don’t think there are any innocents there now, not now and not when I said those things…We also saw a disabled person with crutches who entered [Israel, on 7 October] and robbed, and kidnapped, and beat Jews, there were many involved…I have no pity for such people, certainly not in war when soldiers fall to defend the homeland. It’s impossible for us to be nice at home and say, ‘Oh, there are innocent people there.’ A hundred thousand remain, if there is an innocent there, we would know about them. Whoever stays there should be eliminated, period. I don’t even have a doubt,” he said, according to Haaretz.
Vaturi voiced anger in November over Israel’s decision to allow a trickle of humanitarian aid into Gaza. About 85 percent of the population has been internally displaced and 25 percent face starvation. OXFAM said Gaza’s daily death toll has surpassed all other major conflicts in the 21st century.
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“Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day, which massively exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years,” OXFAM said.
Vaturi’s comments came just before South Africa formally accused Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza, a claim that Israel has denied.
A South African lawyer used comments from prominent Israelis to help make its case, in particular when Yoav Gallant, the defense minister, said Israel will impose a complete siege on Gaza and said it was fighting “human animals.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said clearly that Palestinians are not human beings, but rather human animals.
“They’re subhuman and that’s how they should be treated,” he said. “Eradicate the memory of Amalek, and never forget.”
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.”
TRENDPOST: Vaturi said Israel is “grateful” that “we were privileged to be prosecuted in The Hague for statements, when they [Hamas] are murdering children and women, and we are only looking to defend ourselves as a nation,” he said.
Trends Journal subscribers know that Vaturi’s comments are not isolated and it has become mainstream in Israel. The theory is that any Palestinian in the city represents the risk of another 7 October attack.