Smotrich: US sanctions aim at eliminating settler movement and establishing Palestinian state

By Jeremy Sharon

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14 March 2024, 5:55 pm 6 Edit

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and head of the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party, strongly criticizes the new US sanctions on settlement outposts and violent settlers, saying the government will continue to support the settlement project.

“These decisions are a capitulation by the Biden administration to the BDS campaign which is designed to tarnish the entire State of Israel and bring about the elimination of the settlement movement and the establishment of a Palestinian terror state,” says the hardline minister.

“The government of Israel stands by the side of the settlements, and these steps are totally unacceptable and we will fight to have them abolished.”