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Monday, September 8, 2025
Smotrich calls to dismantle PA in response to Jerusalem terror attack
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. 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"
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls to dismantle the Palestinian Authority following this morning’s shooting attack in Jerusalem, tweeting that “the State of Israel cannot accept a Palestinian Authority that raises and educates its children to murder Jews.”
“The Palestinian Authority must disappear from the map, and the villages from which the terrorists came should look like Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” he declares, praising the “bravery of the courageous soldier and Kollel student who engaged and neutralized the terrorists, thereby likely preventing an even larger attack.”
Smotrich’s statement comes only days after Smotrich unveiled a proposal for Israel to annex 82 percent of the West Bank in response to a range of Western countries’ plan to recognize a Palestinian state.
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