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Related: About this forumLiberman calls to retake Gaza, denounces truce efforts
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman criticized Israeli ministers on Tuesday for accepting an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire with Hamas, and called on Israel to recapture Gaza, asserting that a truce would merely allow the Gaza-based terror group to replenish its stock and build more rockets.
A ceasefire is mere preparation for the next round of violence, Liberman said during a press conference in the Knesset, even as the Egyptian ceasefire proposal sputtered out, with dozens of rocket attacks on Israel and retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza.
Given Hamass blatant rejection [of the Egyptian proposal], we must make a clear decision. All this hesitation works against us. We must go all the way. There is no alternative, he said.
The foreign minister, who also leads the Yisrael Beytenu party, argued that a full-scale military invasion of the Strip was necessary in order to topple the Hamas government. An end result to the operation would see the IDF control Gaza, he said.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-calls-to-retake-gaza-denounces-truce-efforts/
King_David
(14,851 posts)He's out of step
bemildred
(90,061 posts)atreides1
(16,103 posts)That's exactly what he wants to do, isn't it? Retake Gaza, clean it up, bury the bodies and open it up for settlement!
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)to proceed in Gaza.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Makes my head hurt. But you're probalby right, there will be some people who feel "betrayed". Demented.