Israel's National Security Minister says Trump would give Israel backing to go to war with Iran and Hezbollah
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir took the unusual step of endorsing Donald Trump as the next US president, saying the ex-leader's return would bolster the chances of victory against Iran and the rest of the Axis of Resistance.
“I believe that with Trump, Israel will receive the backing to act against Iran,” the powerful minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government told Bloomberg in an interview published on 24 July. “With Trump it will be clearer that enemies must be defeated.”
Ben Gvir is the head of the Jewish Power party, which advocates ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza.
Ben Gvir has been a staunch opponent of any ceasefire deal with Hamas and has threatened to leave Netanyahu’s coalition if an agreement is reached.
The minister has emphasized that destroying Gaza and establishing Jewish settlements in the place of Palestinian cities is more important than bringing home Israeli captives held by the Palestinian resistance movement.
Hamas seeks to exchange Israelis taken captive on 7 October for some of the thousands of Palestinians Israel holds captive and tortures in its prisons.
Ben Gvir also wants a full-blown war with Iran’s close ally in Lebanon. “The sooner, the better,” he says of Hezbollah.
Ben Gvir’s comments come ahead of Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress in Washington on Wednesday. The prime minister will meet US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday before traveling to Florida to see Trump on Friday.
Netanyahu has not endorsed a specific candidate, but his Likud Party has close links with Trump’s Republican Party.
Trump will likely face off against Harris in November’s presidential election after Biden announced last week that he will not remain the Democratic party’s candidate.
Ben Gvir criticized Biden, saying, “The US has always stood behind Israel in terms of armaments and weapons, yet this time the sense was that we were being reckoned with – that we were trying to be prevented from winning. That happened on Biden’s watch and fed Hamas with lots of energy.”
The US attitude toward Israel needs to change, he claimed, suggesting that will only happen if Trump regains the White House in November.
Ben Gvir is not satisfied with US support, even though President Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken have supplied Israel with hundreds of ammunition shipments and a $14 billion military aid package since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, which is widely viewed as a genocide against Palestinians.
Israeli airstrikes, shelling, and snipers have killed more than 39,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, since October.
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