Daily News | Netanyahu’s radical cabinet ministers ignore history and pursue one undemocratic state
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the rabble-rousing leader of the Jewish Power Party and now Israel’s finance minister, has been made head of an expanded national security ministry in charge of the border police in the West Bank. He has also been handed responsibility for the plaza in front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This mosque is Islam’s third holiest, and the site of explosive clashes between Israelis and Palestinians for decades — including one that set off the second intifada.
His party calls for annexation of the West Bank and — even more dangerously — for a change of status for Al-Aqsa that would allow hard-right Israelis to pray there . Successive Israeli governments and Orthodox rabbis have opposed this, as does the White House. Ben-Gvir could incite another intifada and undermine relations with Gulf Arabs — yet Bibi has given him the tools.
I remember when Israeli leaders recognized such strategies would lead to disaster and sought to find alternatives, however distasteful or difficult to implement. Netanyahu, on the other hand, is so desperate to keep power, he is willing to ignore history and appoint dangerous firebrands to key positions. As Israeli intelligence predicts a new Palestinian uprising and Bibi’s men eagerly stoke the fire, no one should be surprised when the blaze explodes.
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