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Jerusalem Post/Opinion

Misguided sanctions: Nations punish Smotrich, Ben-Gvir for protecting Israelis - opinion

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have the audacity to believe that Israeli citizens deserve protection from violence, a principle one might assume would be universally accepted.

 An illustrative image of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
An illustrative image of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST/Yonatan Zindel/Flash90 )
ByWALTER E. BLOCK, JACOB KOHN
JULY 6, 2025 19:06
Updated: JULY 19, 2025 12:07
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