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Lieberman after the Gaza operation: "The Likud leadership needs to do some soul-searching over its remarks against the pilots" - Walla! news

2023-05-14T05:57:24.036Z

Highlights: Chairman Yisrael Beiteinu attacked in an interview in Walla! Likud members who vilified pilots protested the legal revolution. In addition, he criticized the prime minister's policy in the Gaza Strip, saying that "Hamas is becoming the Hezbollah of the south undisturbed" Lieberman claims that despite Operation Shield and Arrow's focus on Islamic Jihad, 'Hamas sets the rules of the game and no one exacts a price from it' "We can't be satisfied with the fact that life goes from round to round," he said.


Chairman Yisrael Beiteinu attacked in an interview in Walla! Likud members who vilified pilots protested the legal revolution, claiming that "the people closest to Netanyahu lashed out at them." In addition, he criticized the prime minister's policy in the Gaza Strip, saying that "Hamas is becoming the Hezbollah of the south undisturbed."


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Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman attacks in an interview with Walla! Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policy in the Gaza Strip claims that despite Operation Shield and Arrow's focus on Islamic Jihad, "Hamas sets the rules of the game and no one exacts a price from it. This round, as successful as it was, was temporary." According to Lieberman, "The threat of Islamic Jihad is secondary. Hamas is undergoing an alarming process of unhindered buildup, and in three years, Hamas will be the Hezbollah of the south. They work on accuracy, they work on the rockets that reach Hadera, they have weapons that are much deadlier than Islamic Jihad and no one is charging them any price."

Lieberman also strongly criticized Netanyahu and senior Likud officials for their remarks about IDF pilots in the shadow of the protest against the legal revolution. "The entire Likud leadership needs to do some soul-searching after this operation," he said. "From a military point of view, there was perfect, precise and responsible execution here, and the IDF and Shin Bet aspired for outstanding work, but the pilots and the air force who set out to strike and know how to take intelligence information and apply it with precise hits. Only recently, the people closest to Netanyahu in the government, such as Shlomo Krei who said 'go to hell' and the great information minister with the freckles, lashed out at them. Even Netanyahu himself, who fired Galant, said he had no confidence in him, lashed out at the General Staff before Passover and said that they cost the state 70 million shekels and do not fight refusal. The entire Likud leadership needs to do some soul-searching after this operation."

"Hamas is growing stronger unhindered" (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Lieberman focuses most of his criticism of the policy in Gaza on the prime minister, who "made a career out of his promise to overthrow the Hamas regime as he promised in 2009, but what has happened since then is that he only strengthens Hamas." However, Lieberman's remarks apply to the policies of all Israeli governments, including the Bennett-Lapid government of which he was a member, which also focused on activity against Islamic Jihad in Operation Dawn in Gaza last year.

"Jihad is a weak enemy, it cannot be compared to Hezbollah or Hamas. We can't afford another Hezbollah in our southern flank. We are building another Hezbollah before our eyes and everyone wants to go through the shift quietly," the former defense minister claimed. While the political and security echelons tried to prevent Hamas from entering Operation Shield and Arrow, Lieberman claims that "Hamas is sitting in the same operations room with Islamic Jihad and it is clear that if Hamas wanted to stop, the firing would stop."

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Lieberman added, "We can't be satisfied with the fact that life goes from round to round. We need to assess the situation and think about whether it is possible to remove the threat of terrorism from the south of the country and eradicate the Hamas regime without taking responsibility for what is happening in Gaza." He refused to elaborate on how the Hamas regime would be overthrown without Israel taking responsibility for what was happening in the Gaza Strip, saying only that "it is possible, without entering into solutions. But the problem is that this discussion never took place. You can't have the strategy going round by round without Endgame. I have never succeeded in getting Netanyahu to hold a discussion about whether it is possible to eradicate the regime from Gaza, if there is someone to take power, and how much it costs the State of Israel in money and human lives."

"In light of this operation, every cabinet member must ask the extent of Hamas' armaments, what weapons they have, the order of manpower they have, what is their production rate, and what is their forecast for another three years. Where will they be." He added, "What's even worse is that we're funding Hamas' buildup and vaccination. The Qatari money strengthens Hamas because, as far as the population is concerned, it was Hamas that supplied it with it, and this frees up other budgets for them to build up. Hamas is no longer a terrorist organization, but a terrorist army with brigades and battalions. There is an intensification here and everyone is ignoring it. Just like with Hezbollah."

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