Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman says that the cabinet’s decision today to approve the razing of Khan al-Ahmar, albeit with a several week delay, is irreversible.
“The government must try to exhaust another attempt at voluntary evacuation, but the moment the cabinet decides that Khan al-Ahmar will be evacuated, this is a process that is irreversible,” he says while speaking at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies.
He criticizes Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked for voting against the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to delay the demolition of the central West Bank Bedouin hamlet.
“I do not think we should be constantly against the prime minister… Sometimes you have to be flexible, rather than turning everything into an internal struggle, a struggle within the camp and an effort to earn a few more votes,” he says.
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