{"id":303358,"date":"2025-02-10T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303358"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:44:16","slug":"netanyahus-policies-on-gaza-increasingly-turning-israel-into-laughingstock-ben-gvir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303358","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu\u2019s policies on Gaza increasingly turning Israel into \u2018laughingstock\u2019: Ben-Gvir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Feb 9, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Former Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has strongly criticized prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s policies on the besieged Gaza Strip, saying the regime has become “a joke and the laughingstock” across the West Asia region and other parts of the world.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a recent interview with local radio station Kol BaRama, the far-right politician denounced Netanyahu\u2019s handling of the war in the blockaded Palestinian territory<\/p>\n

“We have become the laughingstock of the Middle East, and I\u2019m not sure we even realize it yet,” Ben-Gvir was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

The former hawkish minister argued that Israel should never have allowed fuel and humanitarian aid into Gaza, alleging that it benefits the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir said he was “the only one in the cabinet” who opposed providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, claiming that his stance could have “completely changed the situation.”<\/p>\n

Criticizing Netanyahu\u2019s response to US pressure, Ben-Gvir said, “You cannot govern solely based on external pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Ben-Gvir hailed US President Donald Trump’s widely criticized plan to move Palestinians out of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, saying his military will carry out the plan.<\/p>\n

He went on to call for an immediate implementation of what he called \u201ca “voluntary migration program” for Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

“We need to launch an initiative to encourage voluntary migration today. President Trump says there is time, but for Israel\u2019s interests, we have no time to waste,” he said.<\/p>\n

In a Fox News interview, Netanyahu defended Trump\u2019s proposal as a “correct approach” to the future of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

He asserted that relocated Palestinians would need to what he called “disavow terrorism” to return to Gaza while emphasizing that the challenge was finding a country willing to take them in.<\/p>\n

He did not explain how his military would carry out the plan.<\/p>\n

Last week, Trump said he intends to evacuate Palestinians from Gaza and then rebuild the territory. His proposal instantly faced global condemnation, including from US allies.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ben-Gvir said that he would not return to the cabinet “until they commit to destroying Hamas.”<\/p>\n

In January, the minister along with his entire party resigned from\u00a0 Netanyahu\u2019s ruling coalition over the Gaza ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

The party called the ceasefire agreement a \u201ccapitulation to Hamas\u201d and the renunciation of the Israeli regime\u2019s so-called achievements since the start of the war.<\/p>\n

Hamas in a recent statement said that Israel\u2019s latest withdrawal from the Netzarim corridor in Gaza was a testament to the failure of its terrorist aggression objectives in the besieged territory<\/p>\n

The resistance movement said Israeli attempts to impose a new status in Gaza through killings, starvation, and systematic destruction have failed.<\/p>\n

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

This is rich coming from a Zionist who is even more extreme than Netanyahu and who recently called for the \u2018voluntary migration\u2019 of Palestinians from Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":270163,"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-303358","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\/303358","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=303358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303360,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303358\/revisions\/303360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}