Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad said: "The al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time and there will be a second, a third, a fourth because we have the determination, the resolve and the capabilities to fight.
"Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs and are proud to sacrifice martyrs."
He added: "Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nations, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force. We must teach Israel a lesson and we will do this again and again."….
And there you have the mindset of the absolute nutters running Hamas. Complete destruction of Israel, no concern whatsoever for their own people who die. They don’t want a negotiated solution. Their only solution is what the Germans called ‘the final solution’. Anyone on here supporting these murderous swine needs to give their head a good wobble…..
Israeli Finance Minister Belazel Smotrich:
"The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset", because "no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the [International Criminal Court], no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council".
"You're here by mistake, it's a mistake that Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and didn't throw you out in 1948."
"I believe that the village of Huwara should be wiped out. I believe that the state of Israel should do so, and not, God forbid, ordinary individuals."
In March 2023, speaking from a podium that depicted a map of Israel that incorporated Jordan and parts of Syria and Lebanon, Smotrich denied Palestinian identity, saying that there isn't any "Palestinian history or culture", continuing by saying that there is "no such thing as a Palestinian people"
"We want the justice portfolio because we want to restore the Torah justice system", and that the country should aspire to run itself as "in the days of King David"
In November 2022, he voiced support for a conspiracy theory that the assassin of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was radicalized and incited to carry out the murder by the Israeli security agency Shin Bet. Likud MK and former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter criticized the statement as "unhinged from reality"
He's also a massive homophobe and vile racist, but we don't even need to go there.
These are the type of people who are currently in charge of Israel, and particularly the departments with the most influence over what goes on in the West Bank.