Bezalel Smotrich , Israel’s finance minister and inner security cabinet member, said the inauguration of Donald Trump next month offers Israel a chance to pursue several strategic goals: overthrow the government of Iran, prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and stop the rebuilding of Lebanese villages along Israel’s border.
“We need to deal with the octopus head and eliminate the Iranian regime,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg, his first with an international news organization since taking office nearly two years ago. “We should join hands on this with the new Trump administration. The Western world cannot afford a dictatorial regime which strives for nuclear weapons and threatens to destroy it.”