The minister proposed the idea during a security cabinet meeting on Tuesday, where officials supported expanding the assault in Lebanon.

“Let’s start thinking outside the box about Hezbollah,” Ben Gvir said.

“Conquering territory and killing many terrorists, but also detaining their women and youth and taking them to terrorist prisons,” he added.

“That’s what hurts them the most.”

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    It’s astonishing that no one has tried to kill him. There’s a lot of bad Israeli politicians but him and Smotrich are on the top of the shit list. Plus he’s a fan of political assassination anyway so the worst they could say is it’s karma for Rabin.

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      If you mean by an israeli then israelis only kill their leaders who they deem not enough pro genocide towards palesrinians

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        It’s quite darkly funny how in both the United States and Israel the side most willing to commit political violence is the side that advocates for more violence.

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          Its practically programmed into Americans at this point. And the fascists know it and exploit it.

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          I’m not saying I’m pro-political violence, but I am pretty against a political tool being used by only one side of the aisle, especially when that side of the aisle is the one advocating for more murder and more fascism and more political violence

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      He’s a completely incompetent moron because he keeps saying the quiet part out loud. Instead of quiet slow starvation of 2 million people he advocates for public torture of a few Palestinians. Politicians like Ben Gvir will be the undoing for Israel.

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        On the other hand, he’s the type of person that gets the remotely moderate politician like Yitzhak Rabin shot.

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          If he’s getting Israeli politicians shot that’s even better.

          You’re missing the quote marks around “moderate”

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            Rabin getting shot didn’t work out for Palestinians, and he was only halfway trying to do anything good. What makes you think more extreme pariah status will solve the issue that Israelis firmly believe they own the land and see it as their home and have the guns to back it up? Israel could easily North Korea itself, never mind the nukes, and the people that would suffer most are the Palestinians. And no one’s gonna fucking invade it to stop it because, again, nukes.

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              The situation in west bank is exactly as Rabin wanted a lesser than a state where Israel is still in control with palestinians traitors participating in israel colonial security while not protecting palestinians from settlers

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                And yet he was shot for it, and as a result no one will even consider going left of that.

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                    i’m not saying he’s good, i’m saying that him being shot is bad. Especially when the alternative is fucking Ben Gvir.

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              Rabin explicitly said he adjusted the Oslo Accords so the Palestinians would not get a state but “something less than a state” and then he would continue the indefinite Zionist land grab.

              There is literally no difference between Rabin and Ben Gvir in their end goals. Rabin just did it more diplomatically so idiots would support his genocide.

              https://imeu.org/resources/resources/quick-facts-yitzhak-rabin/225

              “We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. [Commander Yigal] Allon repeated his question, ‘What is to be done with the Palestinian population?’ Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘Drive them out!’… I agreed that it was essential to drive the inhabitants out.”

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                I’m sure the many, many thousands killed in Palestine over the past 3 years are grateful to your belief that the guy who has been killing them is entirely identical to the guy who kept them alive as second class citizens but yet still alive.