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Terrorism

Netanyahu: Did anyone expect differently?


By Ryan Jones
September 25, 2005

Having unilaterally retreated in the face of unrelenting ?Palestinian? aggression, Israel should not now be surprised that Gaza-based terrorists are escalating their war against the Jewish state, senior Likud MK Binyamin Netanyahu said Saturday.

In the run up to Israel's ?disengagement? from Gaza and northern Samaria, Netanyahu warned the move would be seen by the ?Palestinians? as a victory for their ongoing efforts to secure independence by mass murdering Jews.

?I would ask whether what I warned about has materialized?yes, it has materialized,? the former finance minister said on Channel Two's ?Meet the Press? program.

Confirming that he, too, would have quit Gaza in accordance with Arab and international demands, Netanyahu said Israel should have first insisted on reciprocity.

?We could have left Gaza in a different way, through agreements,? he said. ?The problem is we gave, we uprooted?and didn?t get anything in return.?

?I would have left differently, not by escaping.?

Netanyahu expects the situation to only get worse.

The Gaza-Egypt border ?has been breached, there?s a huge inflow of weapons, including missiles,? transforming Gaza into ?an Islamic terror base? second to none.

Netanyahu slammed the Sharon government for having accused him of ?fear-mongering? when he warned them not to surrender control over the border.

Jabbing back at ?Bibi,? Sharon loyalist Ehud Olmert said that Gaza had been a massive terrorist base when Netanyahu was prime minister in the 1990s, and that he (Netanyahu) had not succeeded in dealing with that threat.

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