'YESSSSSS' Israel's Jewish Supremacists Cheer Trump Victory

J.D. Vance sold war with Iran during his first interview as Trump's VP pick

Itamar Ben Gvir warned Netanyahu not to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

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"Yesssss," Ben Gvir, the national security minister and convicted racist, posted, according to Middle East Eye.

Smotrich, the extremist finance minister, also celebrated the U.S. election result: “God bless Israel. God bless America.”

Trump is seen as a major supporter of Israel’s wars, especially the possibility of an all-out war with Iran.

He criticized U.S. President Joe Biden in October for calling on Israel not to strike nuclear facilities in Iran.

“I think [Biden] got that wrong,” Trump said. “Isn't that what you're supposed to hit? The answer should have been to hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later.”

Trump attacked Kamala Harris for not bowing to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his pathetic speech in front of AIPAC’s Congress in July.

“She refused to be there because she was at a sorority party of hers,” he said. “She hates Israel. If she is president, I believe Israel will not exist within two years from now. I’ve been pretty good at predictions, but I hope I’m wrong on that one.”

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has been trying to sell war with Iran. Here’s a recent quote in Bloomberg.

Sen. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s VP pick, used his first major interview as Trump’s pick for vice president, to keep the Trump donors happy and said U.S. needs to stop with little pinpricks against Iran, and “punch Iran hard.”

“We need to punch Iran hard. That's what Trump did with Qasem Soleimani. That action actually brought peace by checking the Iranians. 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,” he said.

Trump has billed himself as even more pro-Israel than Biden.

“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed,” Trump said in an earlier interview.

Ben Gvir represents the fringe that has become mainstream in Israel since the beginning of the year. NPR noted that 15 years ago, he was convicted in Israeli court for inciting racism and supporting an anti-Arab movement that Israel has outlawed as a terrorist organization.

As we have long noted, Netanyahu relies on these extremist Israelis in the Knesset to remain in charge. He faces criminal charges if his government is dissolved, so he cannot let that happen.

Ben Gvir threatened to dissolve the fragile extremist government if he let up in Gaza.

He recently bristled at any thought of an extended ceasefire in Gaza and reminded Netanyahu that he owns him. “Stopping the war = dissolution of the government,” he posted.

Israel’s Channel 12 noted that 66 percent of Israelis want Trump back in the White House. The Times of Israel noted that that number is even higher among Israeli settlers with U.S. citizenship. The report said 93 percent of Israelis who voted for Netanyahu’s extremist coalition said they want Trump to win.

These numbers should come as no surprise. The mainstream media in the U.S. tried to portray Netanyahu as a fringe Israeli, but he actually represents the electorate. 

Mairav Zonszein, the senior Israel analyst at the International Crisis Group, cited a poll in January that found 88 percent of the Israeli population believed the death toll in Gaza was justified.

She wrote: “You don’t need a poll to discover that support for a two-state solution, much less for Palestinian basic rights of freedom and self-determination, has been steadily declining among Jewish Israelis in recent years, and today is probably the lowest it has ever been. You can just look at the positions of Israel’s Jewish political parties. Almost none of them endorse a two-state solution, and the ones in power actively reject it, working fastidiously to thwart it from ever happening.”