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Monday, September 8, 2025
‘Conquest, expulsion, settlement’: MKs cry ‘vengeance’ after Jerusalem terror attack
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
After a deadly shooting attack in Jerusalem, far-right lawmakers call for total war against “enemy” Palestinians.
Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech tweets: “There is no difference between Gaza and Jenin and between Khan Younis and Ramallah. In every place, the enemy wants only one thing, and that is to kill us.”
In the face of such a reality, the only solution is: conquest, expulsion, and settlement. Only in this way will we restore security to the people of Israel and uproot terrorism.”
“Nazis are Nazis are Nazis,” posts fellow Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer. “Destroy and eliminate [them], there is no other way.”
Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot similarly declares that “Nazis are the same Nazis everywhere and need to receive the same treatment. There is no coexistence with them.”
“Vengeance,” he writes in a second tweet.
Far-right lawmaker Avi Maoz, the sole MK belonging to the anti-LGBT Noam party, blames the attack on the Israeli judiciary, calling it “a direct response” to yesterday’s High Court ruling that the state has failed to fulfill its legal obligations to adequately feed Palestinian security prisoners. That ruling “encourages terror,” Maoz tweets.
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