Israel Should Carry Out Revenge Attacks On Palestinians, Rightist MK Says
The government can prevent Jewish attacks on Arabs by taking “legitimate” revenge for Palestinian terrorism, MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) wrote in a Facebook post on Friday.
“Presumably, if the State of Israel had not been influenced by twisted Christian morals and had not erased the word ‘revenge’ from its lexicon, and would have done it [revenge] in legitimate ways and deterred the enemy, we would not have encountered these difficult cases of private people taking the law and the revenge into their own hands,” he said.
The day after Smotrich wrote not taking revenge is a Christian value, Jews read the Torah portion of Kedoshim, in which it says: “Do not take revenge and do not hold a grudge against members of your nation...”
Smotrich has previously courted controversy on many occasions, including when he said Jews who murdered an Arab family in Duma are not terrorists and recently, when he supported segregated maternity wards, saying his wife would not want to share a room with an Arab woman.
The statement about revenge was part of a long post in which Smotrich responded to a speech by Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan, who lamented finding traces of “horrific processes which developed in Europe – particularly in Germany – 70, 80, and 90 years ago” among Israelis.
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