“You can’t take issue with President Trump, who currently doesn’t support sovereignty, if he doesn’t know this is what the nation of Israel wants,” said Smotrich. “If he doesn’t understand that being on Israel’s side means supporting sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, we can’t blame him.”
The minister drew a comparison between Trump’s current stance on sovereignty and his views regarding the hostages held by Hamas when he assumed office in January. Trump didn’t originally understand how important it was for Israeli society to bring the hostages home, how it was part of the country’s foundational ethos, which we are all mutually responsible for, said Smotrich. Trump, he continued, had wanted Israel to “just open the gates of hell on Gaza, finish the war, and ‘so what’ if the hostages don’t come home.” (Read More)
