Bennett vows to ‘settle the score’ with Abbas

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett says PA President Mahmoud Abbas is responsible, in part, for Operation Protective Edge and the Israeli casualties.

“Hamas was elected democratically by the Palestinians,” he writes in a Facebook post. “Abu Mazen [Abbas], the PA president, sits with Hamas in the unity government, funds the salaries of murderers, and bears the responsibility for what we experienced here. With him, too, we will settle the score.”

Bennett argues that the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders “dissipated in the tunnels,” and “flew away with the rockets.”

“A Palestinian state, if it would be established, would destroy Israel’s economy, close Ben Gurion Airport,” and put the residents of central Israel in the same compromised position the southern residents face, he argues.

“In the world of ISIS and Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO, there is no alternative to force, and no forgiveness for withdrawals and escape from territory, and all those who still support a Palestinian state should say: I saw, I was wrong, I stand corrected,” he writes.