Ben Gvir Endorses Trump, Says He'll Give Israel "The Backing to Act Against Iran"

"I believe that with Trump, Israel will receive the backing to act against Iran," Ben-Gvir said in an interview [with Bloomberg News] published on Wednesday. "With Trump it will be clearer that enemies must be defeated."

"A cabinet minister is supposed to maintain neutrality," the Otzma Yehudit leader conceded, "but that's impossible to do after Biden." With respect to President Joe Biden's announcement last week that he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race, Ben-Gvir called it "no big loss," saying that Biden's withholding of weapons shipments to Israel proves he does not fully support the country's campaign against Hamas.

"The U.S. has always stood behind Israel in terms of armaments and weapons, yet this time the sense was that we were being reckoned with — that we were trying to be prevented from winning," Ben-Gvir said. "That happened on Biden's watch and fed Hamas with lots of energy."

When Netanyahu finally leaves the stage, his supporters want to replace him with the leader of the Kahanist Jewish Power party, which aspires to ethnically cleanse the Middle East and beyond of Christians, Muslims, and any non-Jews who won’t submit to the Noahide vassal religion https://t.co/77Ok7RmLrW

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