The ultranationalist minister, who oversees the Israel Police, told 104.5 FM radio that while he agreed with Smotrich that Israel should conduct a military takeover of southern Lebanon to push Hezbollah back from the border, such a plan “wouldn’t be enough.”
“We would need to do another thing — and that’s a war that would destroy our enemies,” he said of Hezbollah, which has launched near-daily drone, rocket and missile attacks on Israel since October 8, resulting in the displacement of some 70,000 residents of northern Israel.
“Even if they’re pushed back from the border, even if there’s a security zone, even if they move a bit — you can’t just leave people behind whose entire purpose and essence is to destroy the State of Israel,” Ben Gvir said.
“What they don’t do in six months they will do in a year, and what they don’t do in a year they will do in two,” he added. “We must not leave this to our children. Not in the south and not in the north.” READ MORE
