Since Israel's genocide began, a recurring theme of our coverage has been that Israeli leaders and officials made their intentions to commit war crimes, to commit crimes against humanity, and indeed to commit genocide very clear from the very start.

And so it remains. Bezal Smotrich is the finance minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's government, and he has a history of making statements underlining support

for war crimes and genocide long before the 7th of October. Those statements have, of course,

intensified since. This April, the editorial of the Israeli newspaper Bahraetz was entitled,

Smotrich must pay the price for his repeated calls for genocide of Palestinians.

They noted, he declared, in reference to the cities in Gaza, there are no half jobs.

Rafa, Dare al-Bala, Nazareth, total destruction.

Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

There is no place for them under heaven.

Now, they added Haret's about these comments. They said,

plain and simple, total destruction. There is no room for interpretation. Quite correct.

Harats rightly noted that the finance minister was openly advocating genocide and yet remained in

government, in a key position, of course. Now, in August, he declared

a speech that it may be justified and moral to starve the people of Gaza. And of course, Israel has,

as we keep focusing on, pursued a deliberate policy of starvation in Gaza, which is at the very

core of the international criminal courts issuing

of arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yov Gallo.

In the latest speech, Smotrich has declared that Israel must permanently occupy Gaza and

that it will or can more than half Gaza's population within two years. Let's listen to what he says. now to have to be seen. They're afraid me on all the loyote and on it. Kishkush in the bush, there's shirk

of that.

It's not so much of money.

And, BOR, it's a lot of,

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