{"id":4388,"date":"2026-07-18T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:35:46","slug":"bond-villain-level-lunacy-astonishment-as-trump-inspires-crocodile-ringed-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"‘Bond villain-level lunacy’: Astonishment as Trump inspires crocodile-ringed prison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Israeli government this week stripped Nile crocodiles of their protected status in order to advance a proposal that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said was inspired by the Trump administration\u2019s now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz to build a prison for Palestinians surrounded by a moat full of the ravenous reptiles.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou read that right,\u201d the liberal US Jewish group J Street said in response to the news. \u201cWhen cruelty becomes a governing principle instead of an aberration within the Israeli government, something has gone deeply wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli Environmental Minister Idit Silman signed a directive Wednesday reclassifying Nile crocodiles as \u201cspecially managed wild animals,\u201d a novel legal category enabling the government to keep them for security purposes.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir, who heads the Israel Prison Service (IPS), said he was inspired by the Trump administration\u2019s recently closed Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center in Florida. He is seeking to first introduce crocodiles into a moat around Ketziot Prison in southern Israel.<\/p>\n

While it is not certain that the plan will come to fruition, Ben-Gvir celebrated Silman\u2019s decree in a social media post showing him petting a crocodile, with the caption: \u201cCursed terrorist, thinking of trying to escape? Think again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palestinians have occasionally escaped from Israeli lockups, such as in September 2021, when six men used improvised tools, including spoons, to tunnel out of the high-security Gilboa Prison. All six escapees were caught within weeks.<\/p>\n

The move by Silman\u2014who gained international notoriety by calling for the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip\u2014came despite objections from her own ministry\u2019s legal adviser and the Nature and Parks Authority.<\/p>\n

IPS, which sent a fact-finding mission to the Hamat Gader crocodile farm in January, argued that its employees could handle the animals, citing the agency\u2019s experience working with the attack dogs that Palestinian prisoners and human rights groups have claimed were used to maul and even sexually abuse detainees.<\/p>\n

Silman\u2019s approval is contingent upon IPS meeting animal welfare requirements and appropriate holding conditions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ben-Gvir has openly boasted about the dramatic deterioration in conditions endured by Palestinian prisoners since the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023 and Israel\u2019s retaliatory obliteration of Gaza, which United Nations and other experts describe as a genocide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go into the prisons, and they wet themselves,\u201d Ben-Gvir said of Palestinian prisoners during a speech on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m not joking. They\u2019re afraid. Fear rules them, and that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 Israel\u2019s Ben-Gvir: <\/p>\n

\u201cWe go into the prisons, and they wet themselves. I’m not joking; they wet themselves. They’re afraid. Fear rules them, and that’s how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

It almost seems like he gets off on that. It wouldn\u2019t be surprising. <\/p>\n

Mental illness is real.<\/p>\n

Writer:\u2026
\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Ben-Gvir and other Israeli officials have worn noose lapel pins to celebrate a recently passed bill legalizing the execution by hanging of so-called \u201cterrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Palestinian detainees and Israeli personnel have described beatings, rape and sexual torture by male and female soldiers, routine amputations due to constant shackling, burnings, electrocutions, attacks by dogs, ice-water dousings, denial of food and water, sleep deprivation, constant loud music, and other abuse.<\/p>\n

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The Israeli military is investigating the deaths of dozens of detainees at the Sde Teiman prison in the Negev Desert, including one who died after allegedly being sodomized with an electric baton.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir has defended Israeli reservists accused of torturing Palestinian prisoners, and called the reservists who allegedly gang-raped a man at Sde Teiman prison \u201cheroes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minister is banned from entering a number of Western countries for his incitement to violence against Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Several Israeli environmental groups issued a joint statement opposing the use of crocodiles in prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrocodiles are sentient beings, with complex needs for space, water, temperature, and natural behavior,\u201d the groups said. \u201cIt is also highly doubtful that the crocodiles intended for this purpose have aggressive temperaments, and in any event, during the winter they slow their metabolism dramatically, become very sluggish, and stop eating.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity should be achieved through real security measures, not through animals,\u201d they added. \u201cWe are considering filing a petition with the High Court of Justice over the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, the Israeli military massacred 262 crocodiles that were being kept on a farm in the occupied West Bank near the illegal Israeli settler colony of Petzael, claiming the reptiles posed a risk to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just slaughtered them,\u201d farm owner Danny Bitan told reporters at the time, describing the scene as \u201csome kind of killing valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir\u2019s plan comes amid ongoing slaughter in Gaza\u2014where Israeli forces have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, over 21,500 of them children, since October 2023\u2014and accelerating colonization and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

News of Silman\u2019s approval sparked disbelief around the world and on social media, where Reddit users called the plan \u201ccartoonish idiocy\u201d and \u201cBond villain-level lunacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that Israel is trying to surround a prison with [crocodiles] tells you all you need to know about these camps, which are designed to torture, rape, and murder Palestinians, often held as hostages without charges,\u201d Israeli researcher and political commentator Shaiel Ben-Ephraim said Thursday on X.<\/p>\n

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