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| Itamar Ben Gvir. Source: Wikimedia Commons |
Let me cut to the chase, and state my central point:
Itamar Ben-Gvir, besides being racist, and, of course, nationalist and supremacist, is a more cruel, ruthless, and heartless individual than you think.
He is therefore extremely dangerous.
I am writing this short post to inform concerned Western readers, interested in current events, and in particular, in events unfolding in the Middle East between the State of Israel and the people of Palestine, about something of which, or to the extent of which, they may not be aware.
Now, why would I think this warning needs to be published at this particular time, with my sources and supporting evidence? Wouldn't this, if true, be obvious?
Not so much. The only sources for the information I have found in English are Arab or Palestinian, and are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. By a twisted logic that is the child of years and years of an Israeli influence upon Western media that until recently was virtually indistinguishable from complete control, such pro-Palestinian sympathies mean, at best, that they 'cannot be trusted,' and, at worst, that they are 'pro-Hamas,' are 'terrorist sympathizers,' or are the terrorists themselves. Because terrorists have so much time to blog, says my dear friend @Corporanon.
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| Colonel Wilkerson on Ben Gvir, via email, used with permission. |
(In the same way the press always covers for that about which it must needs cultivate denial, that for which denial is enacted by editorial, by corporate, decree, by socio-political consensus.)
As Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to secretary of state Colin Powell said to me, via email: "Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli Minister of National Security, is an almost exact reincarnation of Reinhard Heydrich, who was called by Adolph Hitler "the man with the iron heart", and who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust. Ben-Gvir is as assuredly going into the history books as one of the main architects of the genocide in Gaza. And in that regard he is as despicable a human being as was Heydrich."
I trust that the excerpts, below, will provide enough basis to prevent anyone from attributing any shred of humanitarian impulse, or respect for international law, to this man.
Which I fear this could lead to someone believing Ben-Gvir when he insists that the Israeli prisons are not overcrowded, that in fact they are up to snuff and ready and able to take on as many Palestinian prisoners as there may be.
If that's what he says, what he means is, overcrowding is not relevant, because these are Palestinians. He has said as much, openly and plainly, as anyone can see.
If it were up to Itamar Ben-Gvir, he would torture, then execute them all.
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What follows are excerpts from the documents attached below, which I append for download*** singly or in archive form.
The dispute between me and the General Security Service is not whether there is room in prison or no room in prison… And I say: it won't rise and won't be. While we have bread-hungry kidnappers in Gaza, the terrorists will not enjoy the conditions of de-lux. The [summer] camps have stopped....Since the outbreak of the war, we have let thousands of terrorists into prisons, but there are no [summer] camps, and their improved conditions have been stopped.
--from the English translation of Ben-Gvir's tweets
Releasing the director of [Al-]Shifa Hospital in Gaza along with dozens of other terrorists is a security breach. It's time for the prime minister to stop [Yoav] Gallant and the head of the GSS from conducting an independent policy that is contrary to the position of the cabinet and the government.
-- from the English translation of Ben-Gvir's Facebook page
As part of the operation "Good Neighborhood conducted by the southern district director of the police israel led by the district commander General Amir Cohen against the perpetrators of crime and illegal possession of AML, the forces raided house complexes in the settlements of Aruar Tel Sheva and Bir Hadaj - arrested suspects involved in trading and possession of illegal AML....At the end of the investigation, a prosecutor's statement was given against 4 suspects in preparation for filing an indictment and their arrest was continued until the end of procedures....A lot of work still ahead of us, my policy for the police israel is clear - a hard hand and zero tolerance against lawless people in the Arab sector.
-- from the English translation of Ben-Gvir's Facebook page
The insane immunity that the military prosecutor's office grants to Gazan murderers from extermination, is a serious moral confusion. A direct continuation to the distorted practices of the state prosecutor's office and headed by the government's legal counsel....Those who ignore explicit calls to murder the Prime Minister, and calls for refusal in time of war, while providing protection to the murderers, do not deserve to stay one more day in office!...I intend to fight for the promotion of the proposal I submitted last week to split the role of the attorney general. It's time to put order in the state's attorney's office.
-- from the English translation of Ben-Gvir's Facebook page
The MLA's offer to release terrorists from the IDF prison facilities back to Gaza is an unhappy and intolerable idea. I call on the Prime Minister not to approve her. It's unbelievable that while our kidnappers are being abused and our sisters are raped, the state of israel will release terrorists from the IDF prison facilities, just because "the conditions are less good".
-- from the English translation of Ben-Gvir's tweets
*140,000 gun licenses since I started the job....
* Dramatic change in policy in prison service. Such as:
1. Terrorist conditions worsening to the highest level compared to the 5 star hotel they had there before I took the job.
2. Transferring female guards from providing services to terrorists. And in the IDF station recruits guards to protect terrorists.
* Demolition of thousands of illegal houses in dozens of places mainly in the Negev. A hundred percent more than what was before me....
*I prevented surrender to Hamas more than once....
* We strengthened governance and security in the Negev by appointing hundreds of police officers and by an unrelenting war against the criminals.
* The police under my guidance have made arrests to thousands of ISIS from the authority who migrated and worked without permits.
* War and uncompromising struggle of incitement in networks and in the field and making arrests of hundreds of inciters.
-- from the English translation of Ben-Gvir's Facebook page
Update: There seems to be more awareness now, but I'm going to post this anyway. It is always good to have primary sources.
Downloads:
Text of Twitter/X Feed (Hebrew)
Text of Twitter/X Feed (English)
Text of FB/Meta (Hebrew)
Be seeing you.
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