Al Jazeera – Jan 17, 2025
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to withdraw from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet if he approves a ceasefire deal with Hamas after more than 460 days of war in Gaza.
Ben-Gvir slammed the agreement on Thursday evening and said his ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit party – also known as the Jewish Power Party – would quit the government if the ceasefire went through.
“If this irresponsible agreement is approved and implemented, the Jewish Power Party will not be part of the government and will leave it,” he said.
Ben-Gvir also said humanitarian aid and fuel, electricity and water must be “completely stopped” from entering the war-torn Palestinian enclave in order to force the release of the captives that remain held by Hamas.
“Only then will Hamas release our hostages without jeopardising Israel’s security,” he said.
He also called for fellow Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the head of the Religious Zionist Party and another critic of the ceasefire, to quit the cabinet if the ceasefire is approved.
If both parties withdraw their support, Netanyahu’s coalition government would lose its majority in the Knesset.
Opposition parties, however, have promised to support the prime minister as long as the ceasefire deal moves forward, according to Israeli media.
Despite his strong words against the ceasefire deal, Ben-Gvir told reporters he does not intend to “overthrow” Netanyahu’s government and will consider returning if the ceasefire fails.
Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a statement that “whoever dismantles a right-wing government will forever be in disgrace”.
Likud also defended the ceasefire and said it would ” maximise the number of live hostages” released while guaranteeing “Israel’s security for generations to come”.
Israel has killed at least 46,788 people in Gaza since October 2023 and is accused of committing genocide in the Strip in a case brought by South Africa at the International Criminal Court.
The United States, Egypt and Qatar brokered the ceasefire deal, and the first phase is set to run for six weeks.
Negotiations for the second and third phases are still under way, although Israel has not ruled out resuming hostilities.
looks like an uglier version of Jay Leno…if thats possible
Yes.. I know we’re only January… and there’s bound to be a long list of candidates to wade through by the time 2025 expires…
but, I’m not waiting…. I feel extremely confident in forwarding the name of that repulsive fat-fck Ben Gvir (in the photo above) for…. (Drum Roll goes here)….
‘The DUMBEST-LOOKING TWAT Of The Year’ Award… 😏
This fat slob ben-gvir is so inhumane, really a reptile. This edomite among others from the same tribe should all be charged with crimes of murder, and the punishment should be a hanging just like the donmeh edomites/cananites did to the Armenians back during the Ottoman empire..
And many leftwing/Commie retards out there actually think that Semitic mongrels like ben-Gvir are ‘white men’, since they claim that Israel represents ‘white supremacy’. When did Semites become ‘white’?? One could claim the Palestinians or Arabs are ‘white’ too.
these mongrels are ugly
Just look at the hideous head on this hebrew mongrel.
‘Monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo.’
You understand Latin I suppose?
‘Monster in face, a monster in soul.’
Ben-Gvir is a criminally insane megalomaniac and psychopath. Rather than threatening resignation, we would all be much better off if he went with some dramatic form of suicide in public. Of course, what he really deserves is to have a few layers flayed off, get rolled in pig shit and salt, then nailed to a tree and left to rot.
Reigniting Violence: How Do Ceasefires End?
79% of all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining 13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day).
By Nancy Kanwisher, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
“As shown in Figure 2, this analysis shows that it is overwhelmingly Israel that kills first after a pause in the conflict: 79% of all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining 13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day). In addition, we found that this pattern — in which Israel is more likely than Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause — becomes more pronounced for longer conflict pauses. Indeed, of the 25 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24, or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than 9 days.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reigniting-violence-how-d_b_155611
Umbra
‘mongrelomaniac’
if a fart could materialize it would look like Ben-Gvir
Palestinian prisoners’ families say their houses were raided and ransacked by Israeli forces
Story by Lorenzo Tondo and Sufian Taha in Ramallah
The family of Zina Barber, a 24-year-old Palestinian mother held in a jail for more than a year, were preparing for her to be released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal when a group of Israeli policemen came to their door late on Saturday. The Israel Prison Service said on Friday that it would take measures to prevent any “public displays of joy” by families of Palestinian prisoners released in the deal.
Nothing must be on show relating to palestine they said
Under the first phase of the deal reached between Israel and Hamas, which is to last 42 days, the IDF has agreed to release 33 prisoners including children, women and men aged over 50, in exchange for Hamas releasing jewish hostages
“They raided our house, and seized flags and symbols associated with Palestine,” said her mother, Amal.