Smotrich said “My wife is truly no racist, but after giving birth she wants to rest rather than have a hafla [a celebratory feast often accompanied by music and dancing] like the Arabs have after their births. It’s natural that my wife wouldn’t want to lie in bed next to a woman who just gave birth to a baby who might want to murder her baby 20 years from now.”
When confronted later by a radio interviewer, Smotrich doubled down and said “Arabs are my enemies and that’s why I don’t enjoy being next to them.”
The suggestion of a type of separate but equal doctrine for babies is disturbing on a variety of levels. Extremists on both sides seem intent on reinforcing barriers to prevent interactions between groups. Such segregation only serves to polarize the population but play to extremist parties.