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War on Terror

Minister: Zionists must unite against Hamas-Fatah regime


By Ryan Jones
March 16, 2007

Israel's minister for strategic affairs, Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday called for an emergency unity government comprising all Zionist parties to counter the establishment of a new terror-supporting "Palestinian" unity government.

Earlier in the day, the ruling "Palestinian" faction Hamas announced that it had concluded negotiations on the formation of a power-sharing government with PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah.

The platform of that new government does not recognize Israel's right to exist and reaffirms the "right" to engaged in armed resistance - a common euphemism for terrorism - against the Jewish state.

The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has stated that it will not work with this new Palestinian Authority regime, but Lieberman told Army Radio that only by presenting a united Zionist front could Israel withstand the coming international pressure for Jerusalem to treat with the new terrorist government.

Likud lawmaker Yuval Steinitz shared Lieberman's sense of urgency, but offered a slightly different solution.

Steinitz told Ha'aretz that in order to "torpedo the existence of the Hamas government that would legitimize terrorism" Israel should immediately launch a massive and much needed invasion of Gaza.

Hamas and allied terror groups have for the past 18 months been working feverishly to transform Gaza into a fortified terrorist haven with no equal.

Lieberman and Steinitz were joined in their general assessment by Likud's Yisrael Katz and National Religious Party Chairman MK Zevulun Orlev.

Both Katz and Orlev added that the new "Palestinian" unity deal provides ample evidence that the so-called "moderate" Abbas is in the end no different than Hamas when it comes to seeking Israel's demise.

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