Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich last Friday responded to the US demand that Israel transfer money to the Palestinian Authority while the war with Hamas is ongoing.
“We have a lot of respect to the US, who is our best ally in the world, and to President Biden, who is a true friend of Israel, but we will never abandon our fate to others, and so long as I am Finance Minister, not a single shekel will be passed to the Nazis in Gaza,” Smotrich said. “This is not an extremist position. This is a position which desires life, and which is required by the situation.”
The Biden administration cannot be considered a true friend of Israel when it holds a position that will fund more terror against Israel. The Biden administration needs to face up to where funds for Gaza have really gone.