Israel’s decision, under massive international pressure, to promise (not for the first time) to cooperate with the delivery of aid into Gaza from the international aid agencies was reportedly made at a Saturday, July 26 meeting that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called with some in a select group of his cabinet members. What would a temporary respite be in West Jerusalem without hysteria from the various racist ethnic cleansers of “Eretz Yisrael”?
In this case, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attacked Netanyahu for excluding him from the meeting. He accused Netanyahu of pre-empting any vocal opposition to sending humanitarian aid to Gaza in any capacity. Netanyahu didn’t want to hear, at least for this one day, that Israel was “surrendering to Hamas’s false campaign” of famine and starvation across the enclave, and was “endangering IDF soldiers.… The only way to win the war and return the hostages is to completely stop ‘humanitarian’ aid, occupy the entire [Gaza] Strip and encourage voluntary migration.”
To add insult to injury of being silenced, the holier-than-thou Ben-Gvir reported that, after the meeting, he was called by an official in the Prime Minister’s Office and was provided the excuse that Netanyahu had not wanted to disturb him on the Sabbath!
