Extremist Israeli government minister Bezalel Smotrich has engaged in more violent incitement against Palestinians, calling for “total obliteration” in Rafah and other areas of the Gaza Strip. Israel has long threatened a ground invasion of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, where over half of the enclave’s 2.3 population is sheltering. “There are no half measures,” Finance Minister Smotrich said on Monday, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “Rafah, Deir Al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. ‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven’ – there’s no place under hea…