Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and staunch backer of the illegal settler movement, said on 30 December that Washington has given Tel Aviv “full support” to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law.
The Cradle – Dec 30, 2025
The US administration is giving us full support to expand settlements in the West Bank in order to undermine the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Smotrich said.
The statement coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the US and came after a meeting between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
“We have had a discussion, big discussion for a long time on the West Bank. And I wouldn’t say we agree on the West Bank 100 percent, but we’ll come to a conclusion on the West Bank,” Trump said after the meeting.
When asked by reporters what the disagreement was about, Trump said, “I don’t want to do that, it will be announced at an appropriate time.”
Netanyahu “will do the right thing,” the US president went on to say.
Since coming to power in late 2022, Netanyahu’s government has been rapidly advancing Israel’s longstanding goal of annexing the West Bank, which was occupied illegally during the 1967 war.
New illegal settlements are being established at an accelerated rate, and the Knesset has approved a bill calling to impose Israeli “sovereignty” over the territory.
Trump recently claimed that he would “not allow” Israel to annex the occupied West Bank.
“Trump and his top advisors asked Netanyahu to change Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank during their meeting on Monday,” informed sources told Axios on 30 December.
“The White House thinks a violent escalation in the West Bank would undermine efforts to implement the Gaza peace agreement and prevent the expansion of the Abraham Accords before the end of Trump’s term,” the sources went on to say, adding that the US president’s team asked the Israelis to “calm things down.”
“The president and his team raised settler violence against Palestinian civilians, the financial instability of the Palestinian Authority, and Israeli settlements expansion. Netanyahu spoke very strongly against settler violence and said he is going to take more action,” the sources said.
A source told the Times of Israel that Trump’s team “took particular issue with unchecked settler violence, settlement expansion, and Israel’s withholding of several billion dollars in Palestinian Authority tax revenues.”
Smotrich has been leading a campaign of financial strangulation against the Palestinian Authority (PA), which has brought the Palestinian economy and the Ramallah-based government to the brink of collapse.
Tel Aviv is working to punish the PA for lobbying in favor of Palestinian statehood and has rejected the clause in Trump’s Gaza ‘peace plan’ which would see Ramallah return to governance in the besieged strip.
The Israeli military has been occupying multiple West Bank refugee camps since January this year, when it launched a massive operation in the territory beginning in the city of Jenin.
Since then, it has been carrying out a systematic campaign of destruction and displacement.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been uprooted from their homes in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, mainly in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas.
Army-backed settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has also surged dramatically in the past few months. Palestinian farmland and crops are constantly set ablaze, and civilians are attacked on a near-daily basis, while land grabs and settlement expansion continue unabated.
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dump says potato, netandnutjob says tomato, let’s call the whole deal done.
I would like to thank the jews for doing such a fantastic job of dividing and conquering. You can’t get a better goyim than one who wants to save ragheads from kikes so that the ragheads can invade my country.
Name one goyim in all the world who can actually do anything, that calls for the whole place to be nuked, thereby killing all the shit in one go. Do the world a favor, drop a nuke today.
Bezalel Smotrich, a criminally insane rabid psychopath fully deserving of getting his teeth bashed out, violently raped by randy baboons, dragged around the block by his ankles, his tongue ripped out and used to scrub the toilet at a Palestinian refugee camp, have a few layers flayed off, rolled in pig shit and salt, forced to watch everyone in his family experience the same, then nailed to a rail and floated out to open sea. Same with that demonic terrorist Satanyahjoo.
when I see this demon or Ben Gvir I vomit . they are
even worst than Satanjahu he does Gaza to avoid court .
THEY MADE HIM ! (+rabbi sneerson)
at least Trump had lifelong a good time with the riches
of his father, the mafia slyness of his mentor lawyer Roy
Cohen, fucked all the girls + women he could get, got
despite bankrots bailouts by banks + Deutsche Bank .
he had a realy good time LIFELONG . not the GAZANS .
and did not need with Bush serve in any
american military spectacle in the world .
became president + like vax in hands of
Satanjahu . “God” looks on Gaza + does
NOTHING !
“Very useful” contribution to the subject….. NOT! ….this Bellator is a nutter…..!.
Why does the Spoofseeker allow this stupid nonsense?……there will be a number of explanations
Recall that MOST contributors here are jews…..crypto jews.
@ Davidarroney..
I thought it was an excellent and appropriate comment Dave..
…your feeble waffle however should get you peeled and dipped in salt, rolled in dog shit and your tongue ripped out and shoved up your arse, then after being vigorously nailed to a surfboard, floated out on the dead sea at midday.. covered in ravenous rats..
😉
pogrom the (((xxxxx)))
what every civilised, sane, peace-loving, normal person in the world is thinking…
Xxxx Off Davidarroney@gmail.com!
Umbra B. is a National Treasure
Ahh, thank you for your kind defense, gentlemen. And an entertaining impression with some fresh ideas from chesterton as a bonus haha I do appreciate it, lads.
@ Davidarroney@gmail.com – while I may be a bit of a nutter at times, colorful anyway, at least I take a stand for something…and if you don’t think I’ve literally cracked some skulls for what’s right along the way, then you don’t know shit from shoe-shine. And what would you do about the monsters in your midst? Apparently get on all fours and then whatever the f*ck they want to do to you. Now f*ck off and go blow your rabbi, you yammering glory-hole.