Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman lays blame for the attack at the feet of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, and several Israeli Arab leaders.
“The ones who stand behind the attack this morning in Tel Aviv are those who also stand behind the riots in Rahat, and stood behind the wave of attacks in Jerusalem: Abu Mazen, Haniyeh, Raed Saleh, Hanin Zoabi, Ahmed Tibi, and their partners,” he writes, referring to Abbas, former Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Islamic Branch Northern Movement, and two outspoken Arab Knesset members. “They are all part of a process of undermining the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and it doesn’t matter to the whether it’s in Judea, Samaria, the Negev, the Galilee, Tel Aviv, or Jerusalem. All of them are part of the same wing whose goal is to eradicate the Jewish state.”
“Therefore we must act with determination against all those people, who are operating under different names and at different levels, but they all have the same target: To kill Jews and destroy Israel.”
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in Jerusalem on December 22, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
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