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Saturday, January 20, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Smotrich claims ‘broad consensus’ in Israel against Palestinian state, calls on US to ‘wise up’
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says there’s a “broad consensus” in Israel against the establishment of a Palestinian state, and that such a state would be “a push for the next massacre.”
In a post on X, the far-right minister says “Israel’s friends should understand that the push for the establishment of a Palestinian state is a push for the next massacre, God forbid, and [poses] a threat to the existence of the State of Israel.”
The White House, he says, must “wise up on the concepts that led to [this] national disaster in Israel.”
