{"id":296712,"date":"2024-10-15T07:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296712"},"modified":"2024-10-17T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T06:18:11","slug":"bezalel-smotrich-calls-for-israels-borders-to-extend-to-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296712","title":{"rendered":"Bezalel Smotrich calls for Israel’s borders to extend to Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middle East Eye \u2013 Oct 11, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Far-right Israeli<\/a> Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich (above), has drawn criticism for calling for Israel to expand its borders to Damascus in a recent documentary.<\/p>\n

In an interview for the documentary, In Israel: Ministers of Chaos<\/em>, produced by European public service channel, Arte, Smotrich claimed that Israel would expand \u201clittle by little\u201d and eventually encompass all Palestinian<\/a> territories as well as Jordan<\/a>, Lebanon<\/a>, Egypt<\/a>, Syria<\/a>, Iraq<\/a>, and Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus,” he said, citing the \u201cgreater Israel\u201d ideology, which envisions the expansion of the state across the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned<\/a> the incendiary remarks saying that they highlighted Smotrich\u2019s dangerous and “racist” ideology.<\/p>\n

Smotrich previously<\/a> cited the concept at a memorial service for a Likud activist in Paris. When speaking from a podium decorated with a map of Israel that included Jordan, he claimed that there was \u201cno such thing\u201d as the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

The French foreign ministry subsequently announced that government representatives in Paris did not intend to meet with Smotrich during his visit to the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aside from being the finance minister, Smotrich now holds significant powers over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

In August, Smotrich expressed support <\/a>for blocking aid to Gaza, saying that: \u201cNobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of February, the minister said that the state of Israel should “wipe out”<\/a> the Palestinian village of Huwwara, after it was subjected to a violent rampage by Israeli settlers.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the U.S. prepares to send troops and advanced missile systems to protect Israeli airspace, the Zionist state\u2019s minister of finance has again called for the expansion of Israel\u2019s borders <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":279306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296714,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296712\/revisions\/296714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}