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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich delivered a message to the Biden administration today (Tuesday), saying that Israel will enter the Rafah operation during the war in Gaza.
"We will go in there and dismantle Hamas, there is no other way to end the war, Smotrich said in an interview with Maariv political reporter Anna Barsky at the Walla-Maariv business conference under the auspices of Bank Leumi. An
unprecedented crisis has arisen between the Prime Minister and the American administration, which chose yesterday to avoid imposing Veto the UN decision to call for a ceasefire. There are those who believe that you are endangering the security of the country.
"You decided that the Prime Minister created the crisis.
We are in an existential war, which started with a disaster.
It's a complex event, the scope of the terrorist state in Gaza was much bigger than we thought.
We break them down, and it needs to be said.
Minister Dichter will speak after me and say exactly the same things.
We have no possibility of ending this war without a complete victory, which means the complete destruction of Hamas militarily and politically.
This requires compliance with international pressures.
We have a very good and close relationship with the USA. Since the beginning of the war, the military cooperation is unprecedented. If anyone thinks we can give in to international pressure, they should understand that we will enter Rafah and dismantle the Hamas battalions there. There is no other way to end the war. Without victory there will be no Security, and without security there will be no economy. There is appreciation for friendship, but also red lines and standing by our own. If we have, who is for us? We navigate in a delicate and complex way. There is a way to give in to the pressures and stop the war in the middle, and that would be a danger to the State of Israel. The message should be my name Anyone who dares to do to us what Hamas did is destroyed. Anyone who says otherwise is not saying you said it. The army knows how to do it. True, it takes time."
Smotrich in a message to the Biden administration: "We will enter Rafah and dismantle Hamas, there is no other way"/Walla system!
You just received a message from the governor not to interfere in economic matters, and I hear this criticism from other parties.
What do you answer to the Honorable Governor and the claims of the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance?
"I don't really understand the statement not to interfere politically in the economy. As far as I know, Israel is a democratic country, and it is run through a political system. It has balances and a separation of powers. To come and say don't interfere between politics and the budget means throwing democracy in the trash. I operate in the system the political in order to promote the values and goals that I perceive as good for the State of Israel. I spend 99% of my time dealing with the economy. This is a challenging time, I don't think there has been a finance minister who passed four budgets a year, two of them during wartime. There is 'dirty' money in every budget on an economic level, Some are on the right, some are on the left. I said that in time of war I want a budget of unity, and we managed to bring in a budget that meets all the needs of the war, a policy I defined at the beginning of the war. We did not postpone the unpopular measures for 2025. I think the budget is good, I could get into crazy fights, but in my opinion It's a disaster in a time of war. The less we have to deal with the separator, it's worth a billion or two to me that we could have made more efficient. It's not easy to navigate this difficult political reality. We invest a lot of money in high-tech through the Innovation Authority and through the fund, which I hope will bring in a lot of money, and in the employment of ultra-Orthodox people." .
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Referring to the conscription law, he said: "Everyone understands that what used to be will not be, including the ultra-orthodox public. We need everyone under the stretcher. We are not making political capital out of this, we are not going to incite and divide. I support what has been for years, and the massive income of more and more young people from the public The ultra-orthodox for the army and the job market. I am convinced that it is possible. There are those who want this change. When this folly of imposing the exemption age came up, I vetoed it as a minister of finance and as a Zionist and a patriot. We are not going back anymore."
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