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Undunankulu wasePalestine u-Mohammad Shtayyeh ngoMsombuluko ukugxeke njengokusho amazwi “okuvuvukala” ashiwo nguNgqongqoshe wezeziMali wakwa-Israel u-Bezalel Smotrich ukuthi amaPalestine abekho.
“Awekho amaPalestine, ngoba abekho abantu basePalestine,” kusho uSmotrich ngeSonto, ecaphuna isishoshovu samaZayoni aseFrance-Israel uJacques Kupfer, ekhuluma emcimbini obuseParis ngokusho kwevidiyo ezungeza ezinkundleni zokuxhumana.
“Ngemuva kweminyaka engu-2,000 yokudingiswa, iziprofetho zikaJeremiya, uHezekeli kanye no-Isaya seziqala ukugcwaliseka futhi uNkulunkulu uqoqa abantu bakhe, abantu bakwa-Israyeli babuyela ekhaya”, kusho uSmotrich.
“Kukhona ama-Arabs akhona angakuthandi, pho enzani? Basungula abantu bamanga futhi bafuna amalungelo angelona iqiniso ezweni lakwa-Israyeli, ukuze balwe nenhlangano yamaZayoni”, wengeza.
USmotrich nyakenye ube ngungqongqoshe kwikhabhinethi likamakadebona womholi wakwa-Israel uBenjamin Netanyahu, abahlaziyi ababize uhulumeni odla kwesokudla kunabo bonke emlandweni wezwe.
“Kuyiqiniso elingokomlando, yiqiniso leBhayibheli… White House eWashington, futhi wonke umuntu kufanele ezwe leli qiniso, ”kuqhuba uSmotrich.
U-Shtayyeh, ekhuluma ngaphambi komhlangano weKhabhinethi yePalestine Authority ngoMsombuluko, uthe “izitatimende ezivusa inkanuko ziyahambisana namazwi okuqala amaZiyoni athi ‘izwe elingenabo abantu babantu abangenawo umhlaba'”.
Uthe la mazwi “awubufakazi obuqand’ ikhanda bemibono yamaZiyoni eyeqisayo, enobandlululo … kahulumeni wamanje wakwa-Israel.”
U-Smotrich kanye neqembu lakhe le-Religious Zionism banomlando wokuphawula okucasulayo ngabantu basePalestine.
NgoFebhuwari, uSmotrich wacela ukuthi idolobha lasePalestine iHuwara eWest Bank “liqedwe” ngemuva kokuba abantu ababili bakwa-Israel badutshulwe babulawa izinsolo ze-Hamas.
Amakhulu ezifiki zase-Israel kamuva zashisa amakhaya nezimoto zasePalestine edolobheni laseWest Bank.
