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Israeli justice minister considers all Palestinians 'the enemy'
(MENAFN- Arab News) JERUSALEM: An 11th-hour deal led to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming the most right-wing government in Israel's history.
Netanyahu's slim majority in the Knesset was secured after a pact with the Jewish Home party led by Naftali Bennett an ultra-nationalist who draws much of his support from Israel's settler population and rejects a two-state solution to the conflict.
One of the terms of the alliance was that Netanyahu would tap Bennett's de facto lieutenant Ayelet Shaked to be the next justice minister. This is a move not without controversy reports Washington Post.
Shaked is known for her extremist views regarding Palestinians and the enfeebled Israeli left. In July in a controversial post on Facebook the then-member of the Knesset posted the text of an article by the late Israeli writer Uri Elitzur that referred to Palestinian children as "little snakes" and appeared to justify the mass punishment of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. The post has since been deleted but an archived version remains.
The leftist site Mondoweiss offers a full translation of Shaked's controversial posting which quotes Elitzur a former Netanyahu adviser here. Some excerpts: 'The Palestinian people has declared war on us and we must respond with war. Not an operation not a slow-moving one not low-intensity not controlled escalation no destruction of terror infrastructure no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war ... This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them they started..."
Netanyahu's slim majority in the Knesset was secured after a pact with the Jewish Home party led by Naftali Bennett an ultra-nationalist who draws much of his support from Israel's settler population and rejects a two-state solution to the conflict.
One of the terms of the alliance was that Netanyahu would tap Bennett's de facto lieutenant Ayelet Shaked to be the next justice minister. This is a move not without controversy reports Washington Post.
Shaked is known for her extremist views regarding Palestinians and the enfeebled Israeli left. In July in a controversial post on Facebook the then-member of the Knesset posted the text of an article by the late Israeli writer Uri Elitzur that referred to Palestinian children as "little snakes" and appeared to justify the mass punishment of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. The post has since been deleted but an archived version remains.
The leftist site Mondoweiss offers a full translation of Shaked's controversial posting which quotes Elitzur a former Netanyahu adviser here. Some excerpts: 'The Palestinian people has declared war on us and we must respond with war. Not an operation not a slow-moving one not low-intensity not controlled escalation no destruction of terror infrastructure no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war ... This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them they started..."
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