(LifeSiteNews) — News of the election victory of Donald Trump was celebrated by the most extreme religious Zionist leaders in Israel, who believe he will endorse their plan – now underway – to expel or exterminate the entire non-Jewish population of the West Bank.
Finance Minister and Israeli religious extremist Bezalel Smotrich made a televised announcement in which he expressed his hope that Trump will endorse his ongoing move to annex the occupied territories illegally.
“I intend, with God’s help, to lead a government decision that says that the government of Israel will work with the new administration of President Trump and the international community to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”
The West Bank, to which Smotrich refers using Zionist terms, is nominally reserved as the land for a future Palestinian State. Yet his plan, which was announced in 2017, is not only concerned with making the “Two State Solution” impossible, it is a plan to create a Greater Israel by expanding its current borders and removing all non-Jews – whether Muslim or Christian – from its newly conquered lands.
However, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported,
Most Israelis do not love this idea. A new survey by the Jewish People’s Policy Institute Index found that two-thirds of Jewish Israelis – and a consensus of Arabs – opposed annexation and settlements in any part of Gaza, for one thing.
But JPPI Index also asked Israelis about the West Bank, twice, many months apart. The researchers found that each time, just over one-third of Jews agreed that “Israel should strengthen its control over Palestinians, expand the settlements, consider dismantling the PA, and maybe annexing Judea and Samaria.” Obviously, fewer Arabs agreed. In total, just 29 percent of Israelis supported the proposition in the current survey.
It’s no surprise that this emerging [Trump] team looks like a Palestinian nightmare. Huckabee has doubled down on his support for Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank (“Well, of course,” he told Haaretz) like a response to Smotrich’s birdcall just days before Trump picked him, calling on the administration to annex, baby, annex.
The extreme Zionists, among whom are Trump supporters Miriam Adelson and Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, the Kushners, and the violent religious Settlers are mostly affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch racist-supremacist, messianic sect. They are the armed shock troops or vanguard of the sect and now have disproportionate influence in Israel’s government. That is because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has politically aligned with them.
That arrangement with these Zionists has so far saved Netanyahu from growing Israeli public anger over his policies, his now exposed blocking of all agreements to release the remaining hostages, and the serious criminal corruption charges he has been facing for some time. There is deep concern in Israel and elsewhere in the Jewish world that Netanyahu is endangering the existence of Israel.
Netanyahu has gained religious Zionist support by continuing the genocide of Palestinians, advancing the Greater Israel plan, supporting the rebuilding of the Third Temple and provoking Armageddon, which the extremists welcome to allegedly hasten the coming of their supposed Moshiach.
Here is a brief 1990 video confirming Netanhu’s commitment to the Rebbe, the founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect, to do what is necessary to advance their plans.
The rebuilding of the Third Temple, which several Trump appointees appear to support and Mike Huckabee definitely does, would also require the destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third most holy site in Islam. That would be certain to lead to a much larger conflict, or Armaggedon, with all of the world’s Muslims. Increasing indications of Zionist threats to the mosque were said to be one of the major reasons for the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
The following documentary gives a useful overview of many of the violent religious Zionist settlers who are now rapidly advancing the expulsion and killing of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank to prepare the way for the coming wave of more settlers.
Haaretz continued in the previously noted article with surprising comments on Trump’s support for the views of mega-donor Adelson and nominees such as Mike Huckabee, Pete Hegseth and others who support her and AIPAC’s extreme Zionist views,
…28 percent preferred that Israel try to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians based on a two-state solution
If Trump 2.0 is a reprise of the first term, he will be full-force chummy with Netanyahu once again. Israelis aren’t there: For most of this year, 70 percent have hoped Netanyahu would resign, and his government couldn’t win an election if it was held today, according to all polls.
The majority of Israeli Jews may have been lulled by Netanyahu’s constant portrayal of Trump as Israel’s best friend. But if Trump’s administration advances a theocratic, expansionist, isolated, authoritarian rogue state, they might one day realize that Netanyahu sold them a lemon.
Yet Smotrich’s plan is not news. It was published in Hebrew in 2017 – as Ha’aretz reported here in the same year. Former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman remarked on November 13 that the diplomatic community has been fully aware of the “Subjugation Plan” – as it is known – since its inception.
It begins with Smotrich saying the “Two-State plan is a dead end.” He explains that there “is not, and never will be” an Arab state on “this side of the Jordan [river].” An English translation can be found here.
Smotrich says the solution is threefold – those who remain can live without legal rights under Jewish rule. Those who will not accept this can leave or be killed. Smotrich states, “This plan is the most just and moral on every scale – historical, Zionist and Jewish – and is the only one that will bring peace, peace and coexistence.”
He says this plan should be realized by abandoning the “international community” and building “settlements” backed up with military and non-military force. This is what is happening in the West Bank now. Smotrich, who lives in an illegal “settlement,” appointed himself to take charge of policy in the West Bank. Earlier this year, he announced an initiative to massively increase the seizure of homes and land by violence, calling for a million Zionists to do so in his “mega-dramatic” plan.
Smotrich says that his “Decision Plan… is the only plan based on the vision of the Greater Israel.” What does that mean?
As LifeSiteNews reported, Smotrich told Franco-German TV station Arte that he envisions a greater Israel which will one day absorb parts of bordering nations such as Lebanon, Syria and Egypt – as well as the “annexation” of the occupied Palestinian Territories he is now undertaking.
READ: Israeli minister brags about disturbing plan of conquering the Middle East
Smotrich told Arte that his vision of “Greater Israel” was inspired by his religious Zionist reading of historical Jewish “sages.”
The violent expulsion of non-Jews from the West Bank has included the seizure by armed settlers of the land of one of the last remaining Christian families near Bethlehem.
READ: Israel is evicting one of the last Christian families near the birthplace of Our Lord Jesus
This news may be surprising to those who follow the heretical notion of “Christian Zionism,” whose misguided tenets are explained in detail by Catholic Brother Andre Marie MICM in a recent broadcast on the Mike Church Crusade Channel.
As Brother Andre reports, religious Zionism is incompatible not only with Catholicism but also with Christianity more generally – and is rejected by many Orthodox Jews for the same reason. What is that reason? It asserts that the saviour of mankind is neither God nor Christ – but the Zionists themselves, argues Br. Andre.
This perspective would explain the zelotic self-belief demonstrated in the person of Smotrich, whose ardent hopes for support from Trump also rely on the exploitation of another claim – that “God blesses those who bless Israel.”
As Br. Andre explains, this “Israel” is, in fact, those who follow God – namely, the Catholic Church – and not the nation-state whose borders Smotrich seeks to expand with a false invocation of the Lord.
The hope of this artful deal may also lie in the promise of a ceasefire in Lebanon – whose southern territories Smotrich hopes to absorb in his Greater Israel.
A gift to Trump or Trump’s gift to Zionism?
Yet news of this ceasefire as a “gift” to Trump from Netanyahu, who routinely ignores the U.S. government, must be tempered with the knowledge that Israel’s aggression from the air is paired with a disastrous and failing ground campaign.
The meaning of this assault is also to secure territorial gains for Israel, as their demands include the right to continue military operations south of the Litani river, while insisting that Hezbollah retreat. News reports indicate that French negotiators have rejected the Israeli demand that they retain the right to conduct military operations in Southern Lebanon as a condition for a ceasefire. This would effectively hand the sovereignty of Southern Lebanon to Israel.
“Several diplomats said that it would be all but impossible to get Hezbollah or Lebanon to accept any proposal that included this demand,” reported Straits Times, with Al Jazeera saying Israel’s “maximalist demands” mirror a similar approach seen in its ceasefire negotiations over Gaza.
“Talks of a ceasefire do not appear serious because the conditions amount to a complete and unconditional surrender by Hezbollah, and I do not see either Hezbollah or [its main backer] Iran going along with this capitulation,” said Karim Emile Bitar, an “expert on Lebanon and an associate professor of international relations at Lebanon’s Saint Joseph University.”
There are also military and diplomatic reasons for Israel to seek a pause in its plans.
As Hezbollah has pointed out, in one of Israel’s six previous Lebanon wars, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reached Beirut in seven days in 1982. In 2006, they were halfway into Lebanon within 33 days. This time, the Israelis have penetrated no further than a few kilometres from the border.
Soldiers are now deserting and refusing to serve and PTDS and IDF suicides have dramatically increased, according to reports in the Hebrew press in Israel, which are supported by former defense minister Avigdor Liberman. Liberman is no friend of peace, however, and has said that Israel should occupy Southern Lebanon for “50 years.” The leader of a secular nationalist opposition party, Liberman says that “Israel will not exist in 2026” if Netanyahu is not replaced – by someone like himself.
Israel has, at the same time, been intensively bombing civilian areas of Lebanon, including the capital, Beirut. They are using massive amounts of US-supplied jets and bombs that are still being supplied to them despite increasing protests from US citizens and many in other nations.
Visiting sites bombed by Israel last night in Beirut’s southern suburbs. It’s getting worse day by day. pic.twitter.com/I3OAxyQi4y
— William Van Wagenen (@WVanwagenen) November 14, 2024
An area of Beirut known as “Dahiya” has once again been heavily bombed. The name of this sector of Beirut is given to a doctrine of intentionally destroying civilian infrastructure to cause maximum harm to the population. This “Dahiya Doctrine,” named after the Israeli general Gadi Eisenkot’s brutal 2008 assault on the area, is part of the Israeli army’s war-fighting strategy – both in Lebanon and in Gaza – and explains the use of heavy aerial bombardment of apartment, hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, roads and energy and water supplies.
This is the doctrine of the state, which now begs Donald Trump’s blessing to expel, exterminate and expropriate the non-Jewish population from the Holy Land. Trump just stated that he would be increasing military weapons supplies to Israel to undo the very limited restrictions the Biden administration has imposed on Israel. The restrictions resulted from Israel’s unwillingness to heed US requests to stop blocking desperately needed aid into Gaza and negotiate a ceasefire to limit the ongoing slaughter.
As his tenure fast approaches, the time is coming soon when one side of this bargain will suffer buyer’s remorse. Will Trump deliver peace for his voters – or Greater Israel to the Zionists in the land of Christ?
The latter seems more likely given the astonishing number of hardcore Zionist supporters Trump has been nominating to top positions within his upcoming administration. Some observers are openly wondering if America first has been transformed by Trump into Israel first, given the enormous influence on the U.S. government and its institutions that Israel already has had and will clearly increase under Trump.
Douglas MacGregor, Chas Freeman, Alastair Crooke, Scott Ritter and many others fear this support could greatly harm the U.S. by dragging the U.S. military into supporting yet another Israel-manipulated war.
They warn that this time, it will be much larger and far more dangerous and prolonged because of Russian and Chinese support for Iran and the reality that Hezbollah, and especially Iran, are proving to be much more capable of countering an attack from both Israel and the United States.
The United States could possibly be facing its first-ever existential threat from this excessively close alliance with the small Zionist state that has frequently abused that relationship to the detriment of the U.S.