Escalating extremism: Israeli MP vows 1,000 Palestinian mothers will cry

A far-right Israeli lawmaker pledges that the regime will make many Palestinian mothers cry over the martyrdom of their children, in shockingly extremist comments that come ahead of the formation of an administration of radical figures to be led by Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.

According to Press TV, Zvika Fogel, a retired general,claimed in an interview with the UK’s Channel 4 on Friday that Israel is “too merciful” in dealing with the Palestinians.

“Anyone who wants to harm me, I will harm him back. And as far as I'm concerned, the concept of proportionality must cease to exist,” said Fogel. 

“So I will tell you something that is very unpleasant to say. If it is one Israeli mother crying, or a thousand Palestinian mothers crying, then a thousand Palestinian mothers will cry, ” he said.

Such extremist hate speech, even though not unprecedented, has been on the rise since the right-wing extremists won the Israeli elections.

Earlier on December 3, extremist member of the Knessed (parliament) Itamar Ben-Gvir from Otzma Yehudit Party told an Israeli soldier caught on widely-shared video fatally shooting an unarmed Palestinian that his “swift and rigorous” actions were “honorable.”

In October, he called for murdering Palestinians while brandishing his loaded gun in the occupied East al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, vowing to strip Palestinians of their citizenship and expel them from Occupied Palestine if he gets a post in the new administration.

On Saturday, Betzalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism Party branded Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups advocating the cessation of crimes against Palestinians as “swarms of mosquitoes,” vowing a crackdown on them.

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