Minister Eli Cohen to Sovereignty: “Sovereignty is the central issue we must work to realize in the historic window of opportunity of the Trump administration in the White House. The right’s approach has always been the conception of a single Jewish state between the sea and the Jordan. This stems from our historical right to the land. It acquires added security significance in light of the ‘Iron Swords’ war. We have seen that every territory we left, like the Gaza Strip, turned into a greenhouse for nests of terror with Iranian influence, and therefore the most important thing is the application of sovereignty.”

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“If you have to choose between sovereignty and expanding the Abraham Accords, I prefer sovereignty, but I estimate that it will be possible to expand the Abraham Accords even with sovereignty,” says Minister Eli Cohen in an interview with Sovereignty.

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The application of sovereignty could have a dramatic impact on the Ministry of National Security. In an interview with Sovereignty, the minister answered that his ministry is prepared to hand over security management across Judea and Samaria to the police on the day after sovereignty is applied, the day when the IDF is supposed to take up positions on the borders.

“We would be very happy to carry out that mission,” replies Ben-Gvir, who is convinced the police can recruit the forces for it. He understands this would be a gradual, not immediate, transition, but “the very strong police force that already operates in Judea and Samaria will have the ability to take on this role.”
 

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In an interview with Sovereignty, Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir addresses encouragement of emigration of Arabs from Gaza and states that the move is necessary in Judea and Samaria as well: “They have nowhere to return to and nowhere to live. Many homes were destroyed, so emigration is an alternative. Beyond that, the reality there is difficult economically and in other ways that make life hard, so I say that if that is the reality there, there is no reason not to encourage emigration of Arabs in Judea and Samaria as well. We see that happening in Hebron; many are moving to other countries. Sovereignty is a substantive, fundamental, and historic step, but the Arab population needs a solution in the form of voluntary emigration. These two moves together can bring absolute victory.”

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Alongside the joy — together with all the People of Israel — over the return of all the hostages, we must clarify that although the full details of the agreement are not yet known, if the agreement indeed includes those same 21 points that were published previously, then this is a defeat and a humiliation to the honor of Israel. The only response that would have been appropriate toward Gaza after the October slaughter of the seven-day mourning period would have been its total destruction — just as the Almighty taught us in the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah. This is true justice; this is the necessary rectification.

If the agreement is indeed subject to those 21 points and limitations, then its implementation will increase and strengthen evil in the world and the confusion between good and evil.

Gaza is an inseparable part of the Land of Israel and must return into Jewish hands under Israeli sovereignty. By our withdrawing from it once again, we inflict a blow to our national honor; and in addition, we return hope to the Arab enemy to take possession of the whole Land of Israel, G-d forbid. In order to restore our national honor, to sever the enemy’s hopes, to deliver a crushing blow to our enemies and to return to true justice and morality, we must choose the path of sovereignty and its application over all of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza area.

We will add and emphasize here that there is no difference between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. The same ideology, vision and hopes drive both groups, and now they receive validation for the success of their path and encouragement for the continuation of that cruel and murderous way in the future as well, in order to reach the goal they declare again and again — the destruction of the State of Israel.

The people of Israel were given tasks and a destiny that fill it with meaning: to distinguish between light and darkness, between life and death, between meaning and morality on the one hand and distortion and trampling of justice on the other. Yet again and again we betray our destinies and are swept up in perverted and irrational moral rules.

In two years of war the people of Israel have taken significant steps to clarify their identity and affiliation to it, but there remains work to complete. We are confident that the destiny of the people of Israel will be realized in the future, with a leadership that will be a proud Jewish leadership

Our hope is that the next opportunity to return to our autonomy and identity will not carry much more painful and heavy prices.