Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com Sept 8, 2025
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that villages in the Israeli-occupied West Bank should look like cities in Gaza that have been reduced to rubble in response to the shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem that killed six Israelis.
Smotrich, a West Bank settler who recently proposed a plan to annex 82% of the Palestinian territory, said that the Palestinian Authority must “disappear from the map,” even though after the attack, PA President Mahmoud Abbas condemned “any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians,” and “denounced all forms of violence and terrorism, regardless of their source,” according to a statement from his office.
“The State of Israel cannot accept a Palestinian Authority that raises and educates its children to murder Jews,” Smotrich wrote on X. “The Palestinian Authority must disappear from the map, and the villages from which the terrorists came should look like Rafah and Beit Hanoun.”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed that the IDF would escalate its operations following the Jerusalem shooting. At the beginning of the year, the IDF began military operations in the West Bank’s northern refugee camps that involved the destruction of homes and displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians.
“Just as we crushed Palestinian terror in the Jenin terror camp and the terror camps in northern Samaria—so we will soon do in additional terror camps. Whoever sponsors terror and directs terror will pay the full price,” Katz wrote on X.
Following the Jerusalem attack, Israeli troops conducted a raid in the Jenin refugee camp, which killed at least two 14-year-old boys. The IDF also raided the home of one of the Palestinians accused of being a shooter in the Jerusalem attack in the central West Bank town of Qatana. According to Al Jazeera, Israeli forces arrested the suspect’s father and brother. So far, no group has taken responsibility for the shooting.
On top of the stepped-up Israeli military raids in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians has also spiked in recent years as settlers are emboldened by the Israeli government. Smotrich recently approved a major settlement expansion, which he said would “erase” the idea of a Palestinian state.
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ISRAEL NOW BOMBS QUATAR
Israel has carried out an a terrorist bombing for the second time on Quatar
a residential compound in Doha that israel said reports that Hamas were there to discuss the peace deal but israel “failed” to assassinate its negotiating team that was meeting to discuss the latest US proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Jordan Egypt and Turkey are expecting israeli attacks and are on edge
Israel the worlds largest rogue state heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say he ordered the terror bombing on the Hamas peace mission
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said his country “reserves the right” to respond to Israel’s “blatant attack”, adding that the US warned them of it 10 minutes after it had started.
US President Donald Trump said he was informed of the attack by the US military, and he “immediately directed” US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to inform the Qataris – but adds that it was “too late”.
What happens next?
This is the second time in three months that Qatar has found itself on the receiving end of israeli incoming missiles, the other being Iran’s token attack in June on the US airbase at al-Udeid, just outside Doha.
With Qatar being a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, it’s now unclear how this latest strike will impact ceasefire negotiations between the two sides going forward, with the faltering talks having come to a halt.
As our security correspondent Frank Gardner puts it, that’s bad news for the Israeli hostages, whose lives must be in even more danger, and bad news for the people of Gaza, whose daily agony continues unabated.
Iran please bomb the Kneset !
In this video from earlier today, taken outside Downing Street where protesters including Alexei Sayle are telling Starmer he should be arresting Israeli President Isaac Herzog for war crimes not entertaning him, at the 4m 6s mark it briefly shows three coppers hiding their faces from the camera. That’s unusual, at least to do it so obviously it is, and if some cops are hiding their faces they know they’re supporting something that’s wrong in their own and in the public’s opinion. Gotta pay the mortgage and feed the kids I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjAUcrwfbU (8m 26s)
“SNOTrich”…. where the fck do those Juice Fcktards get those names!! 🤣
The Israeli criminals are the principal sponsors and instigators of terror in Palestine and the Middle East. It’s been going on since 1948.