National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says in a statement that Britain is trying to thwart the existence of the State of Israel, after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was considering sanctioning the far-right politician and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
“The British need to know the days of their mandate are over,” Ben Gvir says.
“In any case, they do not scare me, and I will continue to only act according to the important national interests of the State of Israel and the sake of the country’s residents, our soldiers, our policeman, and our prison guards,” he says.
He also expresses his contempt for the 1939 White Paper, a British policy paper that limited Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine.
In a post on X, Smotrich also stresses that the British mandate and the White Paper are no longer relevant, and yet, he writes, “the one-sidedness and hypocrisy remained the same one-sidedness and hypocrisy.”
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