Hours before the UN Security Council voted on Nov. 17 on a resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump’s comprehensive Gaza plan, reported the Times of Israel, Israel’s increasingly unstable National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should be placed in solitary confinement and that senior PA officials should be targeted for assassination, if the UN advances recognition of a Palestinian state. Ben-Gvir was throwing a fit over a joint statement issued on Nov. 14 by the U.S. and eight Arab/Muslim countries endorsing a “pathway” to a Palestinian state. The resolution passed by the Security Council last night includes a similar endorsement.
“A ‘Palestinian’ state of the ‘invented people’ who call themselves ‘Palestinian’ must never be established, because the aspiration of those seeking to establish such a state is to build it on the ruins of the State of Israel,” Ben-Gvir said at the opening of his Otzma Yehudit party’s faction meeting at the Knesset on Nov. 17. “If they accelerate recognition of a Palestinian terror state … orders must be given for targeted killings of senior Palestinian Authority officials—who are terrorists in every respect—as well as an order for the arrest of Abbas,” he said. “There is a solitary confinement cell ready for him in Ketziot Prison.”
