Shimon’s radical views mirror elements of a 2017 blueprint by Israel's current Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, which proposed forced submission, emigration, or military destruction of Palestinian national ambitions.
FujiiPontaSettler and lawyer Yehuda Shimon defended the violence as justified retaliation for the killing of an outpost security guard. In the interview, he stated that one Jewish life is worth "10 million Palestinians" and argued that Palestinians must either accept Israeli rule, leave, or face lethal force.