The Israeli government will not take the steps necessary to stop Iran from getting the bomb, former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman said.In an interview in which he savaged his former political ally Benjamin Netanyahu, Liberman said the prime minister is “all talk” when it comes to thwarting Iran, and in practice “it’s clear that he doesn’t have any intention to do what we need to do to prevent Iran from (attaining) nuclear capabilities.”
Liberman, who chose not to take his six-member Yisrael Beytenu Knesset faction into the new coalition, also charged that the government has a “silent agreement” with Hamas under which the Islamist terror group is being allowed to rebuild and improve its military infrastructure in Gaza.
“When [Defense Minister Moshe] ‘Bogie’ Ya’alon and Bibi [Netanyahu] say Hamas is deterred, they’re not deterred. We’re deterred,” Liberman told The Times of Israel. “We pay Hamas for the current relative quiet via a silent agreement, in which, under the table, we agree that they are rehabilitating their entire terrorist infrastructure. Hamas is working 24/7 — digging new tunnels, producing new missiles, much more accurate and devastating. I visited the Gaza envelope communities. You can look out of the residents’ windows and see with the naked eye how Hamas is building fortifications. Most of the materials they’re smuggling in are coming from Israel, not from the Sinai. We know this and we agree to it, and we give our silent agreement to their rehabilitation of their terrorist infrastructure.” (READ MORE)
