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Bezalel Smotrich

Bezalel Yoel Smotrich is an Israeli lawyer and far-right politician. The leader of the Religious Zionist Party, he previously served as a Knesset member for Yamina.

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I wouldn’t want to meet the Smotrich they [UK Board of Deputies] think they know. I have clear conservative and religious positions on issues related to family – that are based on Torah and Halacha. I also think that the whole Land of Israel is for the people of Israel.

– Bezalel Smotrich

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The inability of a state body to accept factual criticism and to make amends should worry every Israeli citizen.

– Bezalel Smotrich

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I am standing here before you, the Rabin family, the Rabin Center members, holding out my hand and asking, 27 years later: Please let us be partners in this day. Let’s search for the common message that will make us remember together, the whole nation, left and right, religious and secular. Don’t let them turn the murder memorial into a day of cynical exploitation and political mudslinging.

– Bezalel Smotrich

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It is permissible to protest, to shout and to say harsh words, and not every harsh word is incitement. It is not the harsh words that caused the prime minister’s murder — it was a despicable murderer in Yigal Amir.

– Bezalel Smotrich

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Those who failed in protecting prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, were not the right-wingers and the religious Zionists and the settlers who justifiably decried his government’s policies — it was the security services, which not only failed to protect him, but also used irresponsible manipulations, which haven’t been fully exposed to this day, to encourage the murderer to carry out his plan.

– Bezalel Smotrich

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Who was the first Palestinian king? What language do the Palestinians have? Was there ever a Palestinian currency? Is there a Palestinian history or culture? Nothing. There is no such thing with a Palestinian.

– Bezalel Smotrich

Found on CNN 1 year ago

I think the village of Huwara needs to be erased, i think the State of Israel needs to do this, and not – God forbid – private citizens.

– Bezalel Smotrich

Found on CNN 1 year ago

And just as we condemn Palestinian incitement to violence, we condemn these provocative remarks that also amount to incitement to violence.

– Bezalel Smotrich

Found on CNN 1 year ago

My concern is that someone in the security establishment released this clip, at this time, in order to try to grant legitimacy to those aberrant interrogation methods, which apparently include unacceptable use of violence, against people from this group.

– Bezalel Smotrich

Found on Reuters 8 years ago