Opposition party leader: We must do to Hamas what the US did to Japan

compiled by Cem Ertür
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Dandelion Salad
14 January, 2009

“Israel won’t be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting … We must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II … Then, too, the conquering of the country was unnecessary.”

[Leader of the “Israel is Our Home” (Israel Beiteinu) party and former Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, 13 January 2009]

From the archives:

“The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust [“shoah”] because we will use all our might to defend ourselves,”

[Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai, 28 February 2008]

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Notes:

1) Lieberman: We must do to Hamas what the US did to Japan

Jerusalem Post, 13 January 2009

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1231774443875

2) Israel minister warns Palestinians of “holocaust”

by Adam Entous and Joseph Nasr, Reuters, 29 February 2008

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32224520080229

From the archives:

Gazans speak of life under Israeli fire + Israeli war crimes investigated

Israeli assaults bring Gazan factions together + Gaza protests

Jewish Peace News: Refusal and protest within Israel

Jewish Peace News: Arab Parties Banned; Gaza testimony; US demo