The two far-right Netanyahu government ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, have reacted to the possibility of sanctions being imposed on them by London for their repugnant remarks, saying the period of the British mandate is over.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said that Britain is trying to nullify the existence of the state of Israel.
“The British must know that their days of mandate are over,” he said. of our soldiers, our police and our prison guards,” he continued.
At the same time he expressed his distaste for the White Paper of 1939, a British policy document that limited Jewish immigration to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (Mandatory Palestine).
In a post on X, Finance Minister Smotrich also emphasizes that the British Mandate and the White Paper are no longer relevant, and yet, “unilateralism and hypocrisy remained unilateralism and hypocrisy.”
Earlier today, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that his government was considering possible sanctions against the two ministers for their reprehensible statements in the past.
“We are looking at this because there are statements that are undoubtedly appalling (…) as well as other very disturbing actions in the West Bank and across the region,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said during the weekly “Prime Minister’s Hour” meeting in the House of Commons.
On Tuesday, former UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron told the BBC that before he left the ministry after the Tories’ election defeat at the end of July, he was working on imposing sanctions on Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his counterpart of Finance Bezalel Smotrich.
In August, Bezalel Smotrich said during a symposium that “letting the people of the Gaza Strip die of hunger can be justified and moral for the release of the hostages.”
The European Union and the United Kingdom had strongly condemned these statements.
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