Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest political ally has called for Israel to carry out a “thorough cleansing” of the Gaza Strip as a tenuous ceasefire between its Hamas rulers and the Jewish state frayed.
Speaking on Israel Radio, the far-right former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman called for Israel to reconquer the crowded coastal enclave to avoid “finding ourselves in two years with Hamas having aircraft and hundreds of missiles that will reach beyond Tel Aviv”.
His comments came as the Israeli Air Force attacked targets in the Gaza Strip after six rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel into the early hours of Monday morning. No one was injured. It was the first ceasefire breach since April.
Mr Lieberman suggested that neither the eight-day aerial campaign Israel launched in November with the stated goal of halting rockets from Gaza, nor the devastating Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09 in which more than 1,100 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died, had proven effective at quelling the violence.
“Without willingness to take things to their conclusion we merely increase the threats,” he said, adding that Hamas “has no intention of coming to terms with the Jewish presence in the land of Israel and therefore what is needed is to seriously consider conquering the Strip and carry out a thorough cleansing.” Mr Lieberman was number two on Mr Netanyahu’s electoral list during elections last January, and currently holds the post of chairman of parliament’s foreign affairs and defence committee. Mr Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on Mr Lieberman’s statements. Yair Lapid, the centrist Finance minister, said the remarks were “irresponsible”.
The final solution
The Zionists have always made “irresponsible” remarks about everything. Which brings us to General James Cartwright who was once the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He’s in biiiiiig trouble for leaking classified information. In the summer of 2010 somebody told David Sanger of the NYT about the STUXNET program. The STUXNET program was dreamed up by the Israeli Mossad. The Mossad brought it to our intelligence agencies to make it operational. STUXNET “wormed” its way into Iran’s computers (nuclear). The Mossad went nuts after the information was made public and told our CIA that they wanted Cartwright’s head on a platter. The CIA contacted the Justice Department and now Cartwright is screwed. Proving once again that Israel plays a very inportant role in U.S. foreign and domestic policy.