Israeli Official Incitement: March 2022
Israeli Official Incitement: March 2022
I. Against the Palestinian People
Yoaz Hendel - Minister of Communications (Twitter, 27 March 2022)
"The bloodshed during Ramadan results from the desire to kill Jews. A desire that has existed throughout history and was never severed.
Not settlers' violence and no other excuses[1]. The only response is an iron wall. Not inner fights and politics (…)."
Shlomo Karhi - Member of the Knesset of the Likud party (Twitter, 27 March 2022)
"The left terminology – "The West Bank", that the con man[2] intentionally used is not as aggravating as the audacity and lie by Blinken on "settlers' violence" in Ramadan. Someone needs to explain to him[3], during Muslim holidays, only Jews are killed, and that using "settlers' violence" is part of the same incitement that leads to this (…)."
Itamar Ben Gvir – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 08 March 2022)
"The message that Minister of Defense Gantz is sending to the Palestinians is that of a total surrender: you implement terrorism attacks, we will give you gifts (…), and instead of demolishing the terrorists' houses[4] and answer terrorism with a strong hand, they are embraced and given gifts. [5]. This is a lax and weak government that surrenders to terrorism. We will do everything to bring it down quickly.
Orit Strock – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 24 March 2022)
"It is time to pass a bill to annul the citizenship and residency of terrorists[6]. It's a good law; it must pass."
Bezalel Smotrich – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter[7], 24 March 2022)
"A weak and dangerous government that submits to terrorists[8] and their threats to achieve artificial quiet, instead of increasing the imprisonment conditions, this government improves it and encourages terrorism. They will enjoy good food, social life and welfare. In contrast, Amiram Ben Oliel[9] will continue to sit in cruel and inhuman conditions(…)."
Ofir Sofer - Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 10 March 2022)
"The Citizenship law[10] is important, and I congratulate its passing. The Bennet-Abbas coalition[11] continues the sale of the Negev [12] and gives Abbas[13] state funds. We will continue to work to overthrow this government(…)."
Itamar Ben Gvir – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 11 March 2022)
"Thank you – Naftali, Ayelet, Idit, Nir, Yomtob, Abir[14], who have abandoned the Negev and are letting the Islamic movement[15] run the country. This shame will be remembered for generations."
Itamar Ben Gvir – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 09 March 2022)
"What other state would allow the Chief of police to say to the thieves[16]: continue stealing for another month, and we won't do anything?
That state is Israel, and the Chief of Police is Kobi Shabtai. After he failed in the Guardian of the Walls operation[17], and crimes rising daily, can someone explain to me why he is still in the position? Shabtai – Go Home![18]"
Bezalel Smotrich – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 10 March 2022)
"Meretz just voted with Israel's anti-zionist enemies[19] against the citizenship law[20]. Sadly, the fringes of the Jewish left are so lost, and it is sadder that Bennett and Shaked turned them from the fringes to senior partners in the government and decision-makers."
Orit Strock - Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 15 March 2022)
"Under the title "judge us by our actions", 8 months ago, Ayelet Shaked promised that the Shabak[21] would investigate cases of Israeli Arabs so that the events of 2021[22] do not repeat in 2022. On the eve of Ramadan 2022, it is clear that this is not really happening. In most serious violence cases, the Shabak is not involved, and the offenders[23] were neither located nor prosecuted."
Regavim[24] (Twitter, 16 March 2022)
"We continued to warn against a government that leans on terrorism parties[25], who love violence and chaos. This is how a government that doesn't know how to decide that the Negev, and life in the Negev, and settling in the Negev is of highest priority[26](…)."
Nir Orbach – Member of the Knesset of the Yemina party (Twitter, 27 March 2022)
"I congratulate the government and the Ministers Shaked and Elkin on the important decision on establishing towns in the Negev[27]. As part of restoring sovereignty – settling the Negev is a basic and important step.
"The small State of Israel cannot withstand a desert that takes up over half its territory for long. If the state doesn't eliminate the desert, the desert will eliminate the state" (David Ben Gurion)."
Orit Strock – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 27 March 2022)
"(…)When the government, which is committed to the Islamic Movement[28], has not brought to justice the rioters[29] from Ramadan of 2021, and its preparations for Ramadan 2022 mostly include sucking up to Abu Mazen[30] and Israeli Arabs. Unfortunately, it is more than expected."
Simcha Rothman – Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 29 March 2022)
"Due to multiple terrorists and the fact that salaries[31] are paid to the families based on the number of victims, the Palestinian Authority is expected to go into debt. There are a lot of new salaries to pay (…)."
Orit Strock - Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 01 March 2022)
"Correction: The Civil Administration did not evaporate. It is completely working on whitewashing illegal Palestinian construction[32], including in strategic places, creating Palestinian sequences with its own hands, and has turned into a cooperative of the PA's takeover plan. All of it is directed by Gantz and turning a blind eye to his partners in the coalition, who made him sign on a campaign in Area C."[33]
Orit Strock - Member of the Knesset of the Religious Zionism party (Twitter, 16 March 2022)
"(…)The US Ambassador[34] exposes joint work between Bennett and Gantz to whitewash terrorists' salaries[35]. Why whitewash? The ambassador explains: to improve the image of the Palestinian Authority and strengthen its international support. You have read correctly: not only Gantz, Bennett too, who defined the PA as a shard in the butt[36]. And Abu Mazen, a supporter of terrorism."
Kathrin Shitrit - Member of the Knesset of the Likud party (Facebook, 14 March 2022)
"The new Senate legislation[37] is a massive failure for Bennett. Former PM Benjamin Netanyahu accomplished the Abraham Accords, which did not mention a Palestinian state even with a quarter of a word. And now, new legislation in the United States is injecting the poison of a Palestinian state into the world of good concepts of the Abraham agreements. Instead of normalization – a Palestinian state. God forbid.
If God forbid, legislators from the extreme left in the United States would promote the idea of a Palestinian state, without Bennett explaining to them the severity of this action, it will be written under the name of Yemina. This is a walk of a total left government, on the road to Oslo 3 (…)."
Shirly Pinto – Member of the Knesset of the Yemina party (Twitter, 24 March 2022)
"(…) Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people. Period."
Im Tirtzu movement[38] (Facebook, 16 March 2022)
"Live from Hebron, our forefathers' city: The CEO of Breaking the Silence[39], Avner Gvaryahu, in a fieldtour for Israel’s antagonizers from Europe in Hebron. We are there to film them."
[1] Referring to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's statement following his meeting with Israeli PM Bennett, in which he referred to settler violence against Palestinians, he stated that the US would be “working to prevent actions on all sides that could raise tensions, including settlement expansion, settler violence (…)”
[2] Referring to a statement made by PM Bennett after his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in which he said the West Bank instead of using the Israeli term "Judea and Samaria"
[3] See footnote 1
[4] In reference to the Palestinian prisoners and martyrs
[5] In reference to a news report about a meeting between Maayan Yisraeli, Gantz’s chief of staff, and Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh. The report said that Gantz ordered economic relief to be given to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) during Ramadan.
[6] In reference to Palestinian prisoners
[7] In response to Nurit Yohanan, an Israeli correspondent for the Israeli Kan channel, who tweeted that the strike of the Palestinian political prisoners was cancelled following an agreement with the Israeli prisons’ authority.
[8] In reference to Palestinian prisoners
[9] In reference to a Jewish terrorist that attacked the Dawabsheh family in Duma village, Nablus governorate, in 2015, killing all five members and leaving Ahmad, the 6-year-old boy son, as the only survivor.
[10] Citizenship and Entry Law was enacted in 2003, and specific restrictions on Palestinians were enacted in a decree that was extended annually until last July 2021; banning Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip that are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinian residents of occupied Jerusalem from acquiring citizenship or residency in Israel. The Knesset voted against extending these restrictions on 5 July 2021. On 10 March 2022, the Citizenship and Entry to Israel Bill passed its final reading in the Knesset by a vote of 45-15. In conjunction with the bill, private bills imposing more strict restrictions on Palestinians were sponsored by MKs Zvi Hauser (New Hope), Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) and Avi Dicter (Likud).
[11] In reference to PM Naftali Bennett and Mansour Abbas of the United Arab List- Ra'am party
[12] In reference to the Electricity bill, proposed by the United Arab List- Ra’am party in August 2021, which would allow what Israel considers as “illegal” houses built by the Palestinian citizens of Israel, particularly in Al-Naqab, to be connected to the Israeli national power grid
[13] In reference to Mansour Abbas of the United Arab List- Ra’am party
[14] Ben Gvir criticizes MKs of the Yemina party; PM Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked, Idit Silman, Nir Orbach, Yomtob Kalfon and Abir Kara for backing the new five years plan for developing the towns of the Bedouin communities in Al-Naqab
[15] In reference to the United Arab List – Ra’am party
[16] In reference to the Palestinian citizens of Israel
[17] In reference to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip during May 2021
[18] Ben Gvir is commenting on an announcement by the Israeli police chief that “there won't be demolitions in the Arab towns in Israel during Ramadan month in order to avoid security escalation”
[19] In reference to the Palestinian Arab parties in the Knesset; the Joint List and the United Arab List-Ra’am.
[20] See footnote 10
[21] In reference to the Israeli Intelligence Agency
[22] In reference to the demonstrations led by Palestinian citizens of Israel during May 2021 against Israel’s aggression on the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip
[23] In reference to Palestinian citizens of Israel
[24] A right-wing settler organization.
[25] In reference to the Arab parties in Knesset, especially the United Arab List – Ra’am party
[26] This post comes as part of an article published by Meir Deutch, the head of Regavim organization, that criticizes the five years plan for developing Al-Naqab (approved on March 14) for failing to include a section on law enforcement against Bedouin construction. In the eyes of some Israelis, it amounts to surrender to the Palestinian Bedouin communities in Al-Naqab
[27] On 27 March this year, the Israeli government authorized the establishment of five new towns in Al-Naqab as part of Israel’s Zionism enterprise to entrench Jewish presence in the area at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian Bedouin communities.
[28] In reference to the United Arab List – Ra’am party
[29] In reference to the Palestinian citizens of Israel
[30] In reference to the President of the State of Palestine
[31] In reference to the social allowance that the Palestinian Authority pays for the Palestinian prisoners
[32] In reference to Palestinian construction in the Oslo-defined "Area C" in the occupied West Bank
[33] Strock's tweet comes in response to an Israeli news report titled ”Gantz is considering the request of the Palestinian Authority to whitewash illegal Palestinian constructions that threaten the main road connecting between East of Gush Etzion to Jerusalem”
[34] Thomas R. Nides, US Ambassador to Israel, was quoted by the Jerusalem Post explaining during a virtual event the US position on Israeli settlements and the PNA payments of social allowances to the families of Palestinian prisoners and martyrs
[35] In reference to the social allowance, paid by the PNA, to the families of Palestinian prisoners and martyrs
[36]Strock criticizes Bennett's policy with the PA, claiming that before becoming PM he described the PA as a "shard in the butt", but after becoming PM he has become more flexible and cooperative.
[37] Israeli news Arutz 7 reported that the US Senate approved a decision that the US will support the two-state solution as the ultimate solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict
[38] An Israeli right-wing Zionist organization
[39] Is an Israeli organization (NGO) of former Israeli military personnel who served in the military since the start of the second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose to the Israeli public the reality of everyday life in the occupied Palestinian territory