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We may be tempted to think of Benjamin Netanyahu as the most sinister politician on the planet but there are worse, even within the ranks of his own government!  National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, seems quite happy to set the entire Middle East region on fire in order to achieve his agenda. 

Zionism vs Zionism – Ben-Gvir and the Acceleration of the Collapse of Israel

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on August 26, to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al-Haram Al-Sharif.

Ben-Gvir, as a representation of Israel’s powerful religious Zionist class in the government and society at large, has been candid regarding his designs in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine.

He has advocated a religious war, calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the starvation or killing of prisoners and the annexation of the West Bank.

In his capacity as a minister in the equally extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir has worked hard to translate his language into action. He has raided the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Mosque repeatedly, and implemented his starvation policies against Palestinian detainees, going as far as defending rape inside Israeli military detention camps and calling the accused soldiers “our best heroes”.

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