Political rivals have denounced the national guard plans as creating a personal ‘militia’ for extremist minister
, who has a conviction for racist incitement and in the past advocated for the deportation of all Arab citizens, campaigned before last year’s election on promises of stability and public safety. Over the last two weeks, aware that his party is losing support because it has delivered the opposite, he has publicly vented frustrations with what he deems the “constraints” of his new role in government.
And Ben-Gvir’s assertion that the new force will focus on “areas with criminal organisations and mixed cities” – meaning Israel’s, home to Jews and Arab Israelis – has raised the spectre of intercommunal violence. She was referring to Israeli settlement communities in the occupied West Bank deemed illegal under international law. Ben-Gvir himself lives in the restive Palestinian city of Hebron, and much of his party’s base are settlers.
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