Israeli Official Incitement: February 2024

 

I. Against the Palestinian people/Endorsing genocide and the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza

 

Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, Chairman of Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 29 February 2024)

“I will demand tonight at the cabinet meeting to change its tune and get rid of the concept in Judea and Samaria[1] as well. It is not the economic situation, it is a deep hatred of Israel that is no different between Gaza and Judea and Samaria (…)”

Tzvi Yedidia Sukkot, MK for Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 29 February 2024)

“I hear that there are still people talking about easing the situation during Ramadan. Just the opposite: Ramadan 2024 must be remembered as the most difficult Ramadan in recent decades. Return the checkpoints and painful operations with aerial escort in the villages and cities to collect the weapons and eliminate them without blinking the nests of terrorism. There is a price for terrorism.”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, Member of Knesset (MK) for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 28 February 2024)

“I expect the Prime Minister to deny the report according to which, in the Temple Mount^[2] issue, he decided to follow Benny Gantz's concept that calm is bought by bowing down and surrendering to terrorism, and on the intention to transfer powers held by the Minister of National Security to the conception cabinet^[3].”

Tzvi Yedidia Sukkot, MK for Religious Zionism Party ( Channel 7, 28 February 2024)[4]

“Every year in the month of Ramadan, the prayers on the Temple Mount become a display of hatred and incitement to the murder of Jews and support for Hamas-ISIS. There is a fear that this year the prayers on Temple Mount will become a show of support for Israel’s biggest enemies (…) What Sinwar wants is a large demonstration of support to happen there- and therefore, we need to limit the ascent to the Temple Mount this year.”

Ariel Kallner, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 21 February 2024)

“(…) The state of Israel cannot remain indifferent to those who in the past expressed support for suicide attacks, systematically preached war against Israel, participated in conferences alongside all the senior officials of our enemies, praised the actions of the martyrs who are murdering us and encouraged more Muslims to follow their path. In the last decades, he^[5] was questioned by the police repeatedly, and banned from the Temple Mount repeatedly, but he was never prosecuted and never paid the price for his support for the murder of Jews (…)”

Tzvika Foghel, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 21 February 2024)

“The bill proposal I submitted to harshen punishment for Shabakhim[6] aiders passed in a preliminary vote. The bill proposal will harshen the punishment and add additional tools to the security forces to fight terrorism and all those who value greed for money over our lives.”

Ariel Kallner, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 20 February 2024)

"Yaakov^[7], do you remember when there were no restrictions on Muslims going up to the Temple Mount?" I asked Ya’akov Eilon. On 06.10! And it didn't really help the Beeri and Nahal Oz residents. The enemy must not be allowed to open a Hamastan embassy on the Temple Mount. The only way against the enemy is to stand firmly, based on a deep belief in the righteousness of the path. There is no other option.”

May Golan, Minister of Social Equality and Advancement of the Status of Women of Israel, MK for Likud Party (Knesset, 20 February 2024)

“So now, listen carefully, Mr. Fifth Column– Cassif[8]: neither you nor your partners, who are defending you from home and abroad, matter to us one bit. This government doesn’t stutter about you. You can keep dreaming that we will end this war without a victory. We are not ashamed to say that we would like to see our heroic and sacred IDF[9] soldiers capture Sinwar and his terrorists from the ears and drag them across the whole Strip on their way to the Shabas[10], the Shabas of Ben Gvir, not Bar-Lev or Michaeli’s[11], or in a better situation, drag them to a coffin. Personally, I am really proud of the damage in Gaza, and of every infant[12], and even after 80 years from today, I hope he tells his grandchildren about what Jews did when their families were murdered and raped[13], and their civilians were kidnapped (…)”.

Orit Malka Strock, Minister of Settlement and National Missions, MK of Religious Zionist Party, addressing the Israeli Knesset (Knesset Channel, 19 February 2024)

“Every educated person in the world knows that this country is ours, the people of Israel and only ours, every educated person knows that we have been exiled from it, and we have known during the exile, throughout all the years, our enemies and haters also knew that we would return to it because it's ours, only ours, and we are hers, only hers, that's why there will never be a Palestinian state in the land of Israel. Because there are no Palestinian people, there are no such people, that's why the vast majority of the Israeli people oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state, which is not only unfair but also lacks a historical foundation, it is also an existential danger to the state of Israel and the whole world. And also the vast majority of Knesset members, Mr. Speaker of the Knesset[14], and you know that as I do, and also your party, god bless, opposes the existence of a unilateral or non-unilateral Palestinian state. There is no justification, it's unhistorical, illegal, and of course, unsafe. Therefore, such a state will not, and we will be sure it will not be.”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 17 February 2024)

“Ahead of the Ramadan preparation, a meeting will be held tomorrow with the Prime Minister and the security service, and I will make my unequivocal position clear again. It is forbidden to allow the entry of residents from the Palestinian Authority[15] into Israeli territory in any way. It is forbidden to take chances and take risks, nor is it possible that there are women and children kidnapped in Gaza, so how can we allow Hamas’ victory celebrations on the Temple Mount!”

Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, Chairman of Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 15 February 2024) ^[16]

“We will in no way agree to this plan, which actually says that the Palestinians deserve a reward for the terrible massacre they did to us: a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. The message is that it pays very well to massacre Israeli citizens. A Palestinian state is an existential threat to the state of Israel as was proven on October 7, Kfar Saba will not be Kfar Gaza!”

Simcha Rothman, MK for Religious Zionism (Twitter, 15 February 2024)

“(…) when you see the huge percentage of support among the residents of the Palestinian Authority of the events of 07/10, and to continue talking about giving them a Palestinian state that will turn into a terrorist state, is not stupidity, it is evil.”

May Golan, Minister of Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women of Israel, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 15 February 2024)

“I said to the international media and only yesterday - also to the media in Israel:

A Palestinian state = a terrorist state! No reward will be given to the Nazis of 2024 in the form of Hamas murderers! A Palestinian state will be a state where the law will allow rape, slaughter, beheading, kidnapping and murder. That's how it is in made-up countries.”

Moshe Solomon, MK for Religious Zionism Party (Instagram, 14 February 2024) ^[17]

“A bill proposal to combat terrorism: not returning bodies of terrorists, by MK Moshe Solomon” - passed in the preliminary vote.”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 14 February 2024)

“I'm glad that the Shabas is implementing my very clear policy towards terrorists in prisons and today transferred the senior murderer Marwan Barghouti^[18] from Ofer prison to solitary confinement following information about a planned uprising - the days when terrorists ran the prison are over!”

Limor Son Har-Melech, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party, addressing the Israeli Knesset (Twitter, 13 February 2024)

“(…) the solution for the day after, in my position and the position of many in the people of Israel, must include Jewish settlement and a continuous Jewish presence throughout the entire Gaza Strip. In a speech at the Zionist Congress in Basel, David Ben-Gurion said: No Jew has the right to renounce the existence of the Jewish nation and the Land of Israel. No Jewish body has such authority, not even all the Jews alive today have the authority to give up any part of the land, this is a right reserved for the Jewish nation through all its generations, and this right will not be lost under any conditions, even if at some time there are those who declare that they give up this right, they have neither the power nor the right to deny future generations this right. The Jewish nation is not obligated and is not subject to such compromise. The right to this entire land is firm and strong forever. And until the final redemption comes, we will not sway from this historical right. (…) So yes! We want Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, the blossoming of the wasteland, the elimination of the enemy, the killing of every terrorist who seeks to harm us, and the voluntary evacuation of everyone who wishes to emigrate from the bloody streets, saturated with hatred and death (…)”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 11 February 2024)

“I am neither apologizing nor stuttering. Anyone who approaches the fence[19] and endangers the citizens of the state of Israel and our heroic soldiers should be shot. This is how it is done in any normal country! We must not return to the 6.10 conception!”^[20]

Tally Gotliv, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 10 February 2024)

“On the holiday of Simchat Torah, the cruel terrorist organization Hamas is allowed to murder, rape, abuse, and burn the sons and daughters of my people. But in Ramadan? This is a line we must not cross. Respecting Ramadan is more important than maintaining the security of the citizens of the state of Israel![21] Nevertheless, we must take into account that Hamas is fasting. Undoubtedly, we are excellent and predictable in our consideration of the enemy.”

Dan Illouz, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 9 February 2024) ^[22]

“Terrorism must not be rewarded - even at the cost of normalization with Saudi Arabia. Yesterday I published an article in the Times of Israel, as the chairman of the lobby for the Abraham Accords in the Knesset, attacking the Saudi demand for a Palestinian state in exchange for normalization (…) lothose who return the Palestinian issue as a condition for peace do not want peace but the continuation of the conflict. The state of Israel is interested in expanding the circle of peace, but not at any cost.

A Palestinian state following the events of the 7th of October will be interpreted as a reward for terrorism and will encourage more and more terrorism. It must not be allowed. We must not go backward.”

Almog Cohen, MK for Otzma Yehudit Party (Jewish Power) (Facebook, 7 February 2024)

“I am glad to announce that the bill proposal^[23] for the deportation of families of terrorists has been approved in the preliminary vote. Every tourist must know that the state of Israel will know how to settle the score with his family. His house will be destroyed, his mother will cry bitterly, his family will get on a bus, and will be deported from our land. We took an important step today on the road to justice and will continue until we achieve the goal of effective punishment and deterrence.”

Tzvi Yedidia Sukkot, MK for Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 6 February 2024)

“Calling the world's countries - open the gates to receive interested Gazans. Nothing good is going to happen in Gaza in the coming years.”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 5 February 2024) ^[24]

“Whoever gave the order for the IDF and the BP^[25] in Judea and Samaria to portray the settlers as the enemy and the Palestinians as the victims has a severe moral and realistic lack of enlightenment. He must not stay in the system for even one minute.”

II. Against President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Leadership

 

Galit Distel Atbaryan, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 29 February 2024)

“The law of the Palestinian Authority is the law of Gaza. The same religious war. The same Nazis. The same incitement. The same textbooks. The same Allah who commands murder. The same thirst for Jewish blood. (…) Forever we will live by the sword. And so it is important that our sword is always more effective, cruel, and polished than theirs. The time has come to stop telling ourselves stories about Palestinian states, territorial disputes, or political solutions. The least we can do in the face of the Islamo-Nazi mutation that sits on our fences is to acknowledge the reality. A basic matter of survival.”

Gideon Sa’ar, Minister in the War Cabinet, MK for New Hope Party (Twitter, 26 February 2024)

“(…) the Palestinian Authority continues to encourage terrorism through payments to terrorists and their families[26]. The Palestinian Authority continues to incite against Israel in its educational and media systems. The Palestinian Authority does not deal with terrorism in the cities under its control in Judea and Samaria. Conclusion: The Palestinian Authority is not the solution for the future of Gaza.”

Amichai Chikli, Minister of the Social Equality and Diaspora Affairs, Likud party (Twitter, 13 February 2024)

“(…) MK Rabbi Rehabam Zeevi^[27] said in the Knesset Plenary on March 22, 1993: Every time there is a wave of attacks and terrorism, all kinds of ‘experts’ come and offer a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. If we listen to them and follow their advice, the Gaza Strip will be a malignant thorn and a center of terrorism a thousand times more dangerous. What will be done when ‘Katyusha’ missiles are fired from Beit Lahiya to Ashkelon, and from Beit Hanon to Sderot? It is impossible to fight the intifada when one does not believe it can be exterminated. It is impossible to fight the intifada when it is constantly announced that only a political solution will end it... It is impossible to fight the intifada when new gestures are showered on it, and when these gestures are interpreted by them as weakness and fear and confusion on our part..."

Tzvi Yedidia Sukkot, MK for Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 13 February 2024)

“The presidents of France and the US went through the trouble of being hosted by the holocaust denier and terrorist financier, Abu Mazen, but the fictional stories of extreme leftist organizations[28], are enough for them to violate the most basic individual rights of Jews.^[29] A show of hypocrisy.”

Avigdor Lieberman, MK for Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel our Home) (Twitter, 11 February 2024) ^[30]

“The Israeli government is risking the lives of IDF soldiers to extract funds from Gaza and transfer them to the Palestinian Authority. Instead of thinking about how to transfer the money to Ramallah, a simple decision should be made today - to take the money and use it for the benefit of evacuees in the south and north.”

Moshe Sa’ada, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 7 February 2024)[31]

“Again, the same conception, again the same incomprehensible leniency towards the supporters of terrorism and payers of salaries[32] to murderers of Jews. Want to prevent a Ramadan flare-up? A heavy hand, assassinations, arrests, and deportation of terrorists’ families. Hosting the senior officials of the Terrorism Authority in Tel Aviv and presenting a "pilot" for the introduction of workers^[33] at the expense of the security of the citizens of Israel is nothing more than folly and the continuation of the failure of the people of the conception^[34]. The time has come to sober up, to be freed from October 6, and to prevent the entry of Palestinian laborers into the country comprehensively.”

Simcha Rothman, MK for Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 5 February 2024)

“Some people haven't changed the record yet. Treating the settlers as the enemy and the Palestinian Authority and its police as a friendly force indicates a lack of enlightenment like no other. Yoav Gallant, take responsibility! This conception of the security system's senior officials must change.”

III. Against UN Organizations

 

Yulia Malinovsky, MK for Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) (Twitter, 26 February 2024)

“Why did all those who talk about UNRWA being a terrorist organization reject my bill to declare them a terrorist organization in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation? Let me clarify that I will raise this bill in any case, and everyone will have to give an account and vote for or against it. You will not be able to run away from responsibility, you have been running away for too many years. We all paid a price for it on the seventh of October.”

Danny Danon, MK for Likud Party (Twitter, 21 February 2024) ^[35]

“Where was the UN when Hamas raped and burned women and children alive and kidnapped entire families to Gaza? Where is the UN now when women and children are still in Hamas camps without any basic conditions?”

Israel Katz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mk for the Likud (Twitter, 14 February 2024)

“This morning, I met the German Foreign Minister, Analana Barbuk, in Jerusalem, and thanked her for Germany's continued support for Israel. We focused on the need to return all the abductees and defeat the terrorist organization Hamas. We discussed ways to ensure that the humanitarian aid does not reach the hands of the Hamas murderers - and I told her that UNRWA cannot under any circumstances be part of the aid and that other alternatives must be found. UNRWA is the problem, not the solution.”

Gilad Erdan, Permanent Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations (Twitter, 11 February 2024)

“I responded to the Director General of UNRWA, Lazarini, who claimed that he did not know about the Hamas tunnel under the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, where the terrorist organization's servers’ farm is held: Mr. Lazarini, it's not that you didn't know. You didn't want to know! You buried your head in the sand! We uncovered terror tunnels under UNRWA schools, and I personally provided you with evidence that Hamas uses UNRWA facilities as a terrorist infrastructure. We implored you to conduct a comprehensive investigation and inspect all UNRWA facilities in Gaza. But not only did you refuse, you chose not to see reality. Now - take responsibility and resign today! The UN has become an accomplice of Hamas, and it is no longer possible to believe anything the UN says regarding Gaza.”

Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, Chairman of Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 8 February 2024)

“The state of Israel will not give tax benefits to terrorist aides.”^[36]

Arieh King, Deputy Mayor of the so-called Jerusalem Municipality (Walla Website, 6 February 2024)

"In place of the headquarters of the huge anti-Israel organization[37] that exists here, a neighborhood should be built for veterans who fought in Gaza, for wounded or kidnapped soldiers, a cluster of public gardens and magnificent schools. I call on the Israeli government and my friends, Mayor Moshe Leon, to sober up and evict Hamas UNRWA from Jerusalem so that we will not see this anti-Semitic organization anymore."

Etty Hava Atina, MK for the Likud (Twitter, 1 February 2024) ^[38]

“If we put aside the questions arising from the very existence of UNRWA, we can congratulate the suspension of the 1.2 billion dollars of funding this problematic organization receives. Good news to start the month with!”

VI. Additional Examples

 

Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs & Combating Anti-Semitism, Member of Likud Party (Twitter, 29 February 2024)

“An absolute majority of the citizens of Israel agree that anyone who thinks of loosening their grip on our country is paving the way for the next massacre. This is the time to strengthen the settlement in Judea and Samaria and to remind that to the east of Jordan^[39], there is already a Palestinian state. The magnificent settlement of Eli[40], which I am strengthening in its difficult times, must continue to be strengthened along with the entire settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria.”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 18 February 2024)

“The contemptuous words of the president of Brazil[41] are shocking, but not at all surprising when it comes to a corrupt president, an avid supporter of the BDS^[42] organization, which Hamas considers a close friend. The state of Israel and the IDF are fighting a most justified war in Gaza, no anti-Semitic leader will tell us how to act to restore security to our wonderful nation.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, MK for the Likud (Twitter, 18 February 2024)

“The words of the president of Brazil are shameful and serious. This is trivializing the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel's right to defend itself. Comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line. Israel fights for its defense and securing its future until complete victory, and it does so while upholding international law. I decided with the Foreign Minister of Israel, Katz, to summon the Brazilian ambassador to Israel for a stern reprimand conversation immediately.”

Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, Chairman of Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 18 February 2024) ^[43]

“After my demand last week was passed, the government unanimously passed a resolution that Israel opposes the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.

I welcome the government's decision as a first step. There is a wall-to-wall^[44] consensus that a Palestinian state endangers the state of Israel, in the government, and in the Knesset, this statement will be passed by a huge majority of all the Zionist parties.”

Makhluf Miki Zohar, Minister of Culture and Sport, Member of the Likud Party (Twitter, 15 February 2024)

“A Palestinian state will never be established here. We will not risk Israel's security with a terrorist state in our midst. No reward was given for the terrorism of October 7.”

Zeev Elkin, MK for National Unity Party (Twitter, 15 February 2024)

“Not going to happen! The establishment of a Palestinian state means the establishment of a Hamas state, which will win if any election will be. This step will lead to the risk of a repeat of the events of 07.10 for the entire country (…)”

Itamar Ben Gvir , Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Times of Israel, 15 February 2024)

“The intention of the US, together with the Arab states, to establish a terror state alongside the state of Israel is delusional and part of the misguided conception that there is a partner for peace on the other side. After October 7, it became clearer than ever that it was forbidden to give them a state. While we are in the government, no Palestinian state will be established”

Tzvi Yedidia Sukkot, MK for the Religious Zionism Party (Twitter, 15 February 2024)

“There will not be a Palestinian state between the sea and Jordan. Never!”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, MK for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party (Twitter, 13 February 2024) ^[45]

“After giving a "guarantee" for the entry of medicine, which reached Hamas instead of the abductees, France continues to help us with additional "gifts": an attempt to bring an outline of surrender to Hezbollah in the north, and sanctions against dozens of settlers from Judea and Samaria. The time has come for us to clarify: the state of Israel should look after the interests of the state of Israel, not the interests of Paris.”

Avigdor Lieberman, MK for Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) Party (Twitter, 8 February 2024).

“The debate that will take place in the cabinet on the entry of Palestinian laborers to Israel is a debate that proves that the old conception is still here. Unnecessary risks must not be taken. Lack of employees? Bring in foreign workers. No risks are taken on the backs of Israeli citizens.”