Listen closely, you Insufferable Qatari propaganda mill.
Just as every rabid anti-Jewish bigot does, you seize any word a Jew utters that can be twisted, however remotely, into self-incrimination.
You then treat those words as sacred writ carved in stone. With the highest pedantic precision you insist that the precise figure Smotrich mentioned, 1.8 million Palestinians, must mean he regards the total remaining civilian population in Gaza as 1.8 million.
That, in turn, must somehow prove the actual death toll far exceeds official counts. In the same breath you dismiss every other detail he offered as lies, rubbish, inflammatory rhetoric, or hyperbole.
You extract solely the isolated fragments that let you claim that the Jew is incriminating himself.
You do this while fully aware of the precise words Bezalel Smotrich used and the clear meaning he intended.
Yet you deliberately ripped two single terms from an extended, detailed and coherent discussion.
One is the figure 1.8, which you weaponized into a supposed admission of genocide, as if elevated civilian casualties automatically equal genocide.
The other is the term Nazis, which you deceitfully claim he applied to that same population in order to dehumanize Gazans and seek their wholesale elimination.
You know full well that Smotrich stated without ambiguity that his reference to wiping out Gaza concerned the destruction of Gaza as an organized terrorist entity. You also know full well that he specified the roughly 1.8 million Gazans in question resemble Nazis in one particular and limited respect: they have been systematically indoctrinated to desire and to seek to act upon that desire, exactly as the German Nazis desired and sought the rape, burning to death, mass murder, enslavement, and torture to death of innocent Jewish civilians of every age and condition, including women, infants, children, the elderly and the disabled.
He did not propose, imply, or suggest that these people must themselves be subjected to genocide.
He also did not claim that only 1.8 million civilians remain in Gaza. He might have used that estimated figure because he does not accept the higher counts of 2.1 or 2.3 million. More probably he used that figure because he did not want to include all Gazan civilians in the charge.
There is zero indication that he maintains the war started at 2.3 million souls and is now down to 1.8 million. That reading is a fabrication of your own, saturated in hostility toward Jews.
Nevertheless, it is fair to observe that the numerical claim of 1.8 million is hyperbolic and overstates the share of the Gazan population that actively desires the torture and death of every Jew and would act on that desire at the first opportunity.
The exaggeration, however, is confined to the precise percentage. It does not distort the central reality.
The description corresponds with striking accuracy to a very large portion of Gaza’s population.
Whether that portion constitutes a majority, approaches 1.8 million, or stands nearer to 1.2 million remains a secondary dispute over scale.
The underlying fact itself is not in doubt and is confirmed by the available evidence.
Anyone who listens to the entire exchange understands that Smotrich was identifying the dehumanization of Jews and the widespread desire among Gazans to kill them, and was insisting that this threat cannot be permitted to materialize.
Questions of voluntary emigration or deradicalization belong to a separate discussion.
Nothing in his remarks advocated the eradication of Gazans, dehumanized them, or gestured toward any crime against humanity.
Those charges are inventions of your own, advanced with calculated distortion and without any foundation in what was actually said.
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