CNN’s Jake Tapper blasts ‘racist’ Israeli official for saying Palestinians in Gaza are ‘Nazis’
NY Post
CNN anchor Jake Tapper condemned what he called the “outrageous” and “racist” statements by a “far right extremist” Israeli cabinet minister who recently said that Palestinians living in Gaza are “Nazis who want to destroy us when they get up every morning.”
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and a member of the Religious Zionist Party, appeared on Israeli TV and urged his own government to re-establish Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.
“The Jewish settlement should be established in the territory of the Gaza Strip so that there will be Jewish presence there for a long time, so that terrorism does not grow there,” Smotrich said in the clip, which was played by Tapper during Monday’s episode of CNN’s “The Lead.”
“If not, there are two million Nazis in Gaza who want to destroy us when they get up every morning, and we will wake up in 10 or 15 years to a new October 7th,” the minister said in the clip.
The comments prompted criticism from Tapper, whose comments were reported by Mediaite.
“Two million is, of course, the population of Gaza,” Tapper said. “So, take that in for a moment. Two million, quote, unquote, ‘Nazis’ in Gaza? Babies, two-year-olds, three-year-olds, old ladies, all of them Nazis?”
