Lieberman Criticizes Netanyahu, Calls for Retaking Gaza

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"Israeli" FM Avigdor Lieberman criticized the Zionist entity's ministers on Tuesday for accepting an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire with Hamas.

In a thinly veiled attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the crisis - called on "Israel" to recapture Gaza, claiming 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," Lieberman said during a press conference in the Knesset.

"Given Hamas's 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," Liberman said, undermining Netanyahu's approach while not mentioning Bibi by name. The end result had to be "kicking Hamas out of Gaza" and the overthrowing of its rule there.

The foreign minister 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 "Israeli" army control Gaza," he said.

On Tuesday morning, "Israel" announced that it would accept the ceasefire proposal and unilaterally halt all airstrikes on Gaza. Only a short while later, however, Hamas indicated its rejection of the deal, as it continued to rain rockets on the Zionist entity.
Lieberman and "Jewish Home" chairman Naftali Bennett were the only two cabinet members to vote against the ceasefire proposal in the security cabinet.

The "Israeli" FM noted that, in leaving Gaza in 2005, "Israel" did what the world had asked it to do, returning to the pre-1967 lines, and handing the territory over to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. That it then fell into the hands of Abbas, said Lieberman, raised worrying questions. "We pulled out all the settlers; we evacuated all the settlements," said Lieberman. "We have to say to the world, you pressed us to do this. Now you have to back us in going all the way... We have to end this conflict with the "IDF" in control of all of Gaza... There is no other way to tackle the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror which rules Gaza."

""Israel" must now crush the Hamas infrastructure and we must not stop until the job is completed, until the shooting at "Israeli" citizens will be stopped completely and Gaza is demilitarized from both rockets and tunnels," he said.

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