{"id":138520,"date":"2025-11-17T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/138520\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:53:11","slug":"ben-gvir-calls-for-abbass-arrest-if-un-advances-palestinian-state-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/138520\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Gvir calls for Abbas’s arrest if UN advances Palestinian state recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Monday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should be placed in solitary confinement and senior PA officials should be targeted for assassination if the UN advances recognition of a Palestinian state, hours before a scheduled Security Council vote on a resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump\u2019s comprehensive Gaza plan.<\/p>\n

Ben Gvir and other far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition have intensified their anti-Palestinian rhetoric as Israel enters an election year, urging him to state unequivocally that Israel will never accept a Palestinian state amid fears that Trump\u2019s ceasefire plan could pave the way for one.<\/p>\n

The US president\u2019s proposal lays out a multi-stage process that would hand Gaza over to an International Stabilization Force (ISF) and an apolitical Palestinian administration overseen by a Trump-chaired \u201cBoard of Peace.\u201d It says that, if Gaza is demilitarized and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority \u201cfaithfully\u201d reforms itself, a path to Palestinian statehood may be possible \u2014 a prospect that Ben Gvir and his far-right Otzma Yehudit party firmly oppose.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the opening of his party\u2019s faction meeting at the Knesset on Monday, Ben Gvir said, \u201cA \u2018Palestinian\u2019 state of the \u2018invented people\u2019 who call themselves \u2018Palestinian\u2019 must never be established, because the aspiration of those seeking to establish such a state is to build it on the ruins of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they accelerate recognition of a Palestinian terror state\u2026 orders must be given for targeted killings of senior Palestinian Authority officials \u2014 who are terrorists in every respect \u2014 as well as an order for the arrest of Abbas,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a solitary confinement cell ready for him in Ketziot Prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ahead of his own Religious Zionism party\u2019s faction meeting, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich insisted that no plan paving the way to a Palestinian state would ever be implemented.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tFinance Minister and Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan for a path to a Palestinian state will not happen,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life\u2019s mission is to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of our land,\u201d the minister said, noting that he has worked hard \u201cto kill the idea of a Palestinian state,\u201d and vowing to continue doing so.<\/p>\n

Smotrich added that a Palestinian state could be pursued \u201cin any of the dozens of Arab countries, or even in several European countries\u2026 not here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where the Jewish state was established, and this is where it will continue to exist with full sovereignty,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The two ministers have been up in arms since a joint statement arranged by the US was released on Friday, in which multiple countries working toward an end to the Gaza conflict voiced backing for Washington\u2019s Security Council resolution to establish an International Stabilization Force in Gaza, amid pushback from Russia and China.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tUS President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on his way back to the White House, November 16, 2025. (AP Photo\/ Manuel Balce Ceneta)<\/p>\n

The statement, supported by Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan, and Turkey, said that the process \u201coffers a pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe emphasize that this is a sincere effort, and the Plan provides a viable path towards peace and stability, not only between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but for the entire region,\u201d the joint statement continued. \u201cWe are looking forward to this resolution\u2019s swift adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu himself welcomed the plan when it was unveiled at the White House in September, but its actual text is less clear regarding the prospect for Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

Ben Gvir and Smotrich have both previously issued ultimatums to Netanyahu, at times threatening to bring down the government. In October, Ben Gvir said he gave the prime minister a deadline to dismantle Hamas and implement the death penalty for terrorists, warning that his party would quit the coalition if the demands were not met. A month later, Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer walked back those claims, stating that the faction was not actively seeking to topple the government.<\/p>\n

Sam Sokol contributed to this report.<\/p>\n


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