Liberman said to call for Mashaal’s assassination in Qatar

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman says Israel should take the fight against Hamas to Qatar, both in working to ban the emirate’s news channel, al-Jazeera, in Israel, and by assassinating Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, who resides there.

According to Channel 2’s Udi Segal, Liberman said in closed-door meetings that Israel should bump off Mashaal on Qatari soil in the same way that the US assassinated Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011.

FM Lieberman say in indoor meetings that Israel should kill haled mashal even on Qatari soil

— Udi Segal (@usegal) July 21, 2014

Liberman said in a meeting earlier today with the visiting Rwandan foreign minister that “Qatar is also a central figure in the conflict we’re waging now against Hamas in Gaza, as among other things it finances Hamas and gives asylum to Khaled Mashaal.”

“The al-Jazeera network, which is also of course financed by Qatar, is the central pillar of Hamas’s media relations and propaganda,” Liberman says. “We already began examining the activities and standing of al-Jazeera with the intention of not allowing it to operate in Israel anymore.”