Hamas War 2010

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2011-01-09T13:56:00.001-08:00

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2010-09-19T15:20:00.000-07:00

Gaza water park burned down after shut down by Hamas
www.jpost.com

Unidentified gunmen set fire to Crazy Water park closed for allowing mixed bathing; witnesses say at least 25 assailants took part.

Gaza under Hamas = Afghanistan under the Taliban. Death, destruction , anarchy, danger to all both inside and out. Both the government and the various factions are out of control.

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2010-09-06T20:16:00.000-07:00

Red Cross Jerusalem Hosts 3 Hamas Leaders
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has given “asylum” to three Hamas leaders who fear that the Israeli police might arrest and/or deport them. The three have been there for 40 days.

Meanwhile, the three have opened a type of headquarters at the Red Cross, with visitors and journalists constantly coming and going. Hamas took responsibility for last week’s terrorist murders of four Jews near Hevron and for an attempt to kill two more the next night.

What About a Red Cross Visit to Gilad Shalit?

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2010-09-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

Hamas calls women and children 'military targets'

The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Saturday said that all Jews living in Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank") are legitimate military targets, regardless of whether they are men, women or children.

Hamas spokesman Azat al-Ghashek told the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat that it is "natural" to want to harm any Jew that is found in these areas, as they are "the reserve force of the occupation army on Palestinian land."

Al-Ghashek was interviewed following last week's brutal execution of four Jewish civilians near the Judean town of Hebron that left seven Israeli children without parents. Hamas claimed credit for that attack and organized street rallies in Gaza City to celebrate the slayings.

Palestinian terror groups have long argued that even killing Israeli women and children constitutes legitimate military activity since all Israeli Jews eventually serve in the army.
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2010-09-02T18:49:00.000-07:00

‎13 Palestinian armed groups vow to step up attacks against Israel

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Update : Hezbollah leader praises Hamas after shooting attacks in the West Bank
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2010-08-31T13:48:00.000-07:00

Hamas Takes Responsibility for Attack

Reported: 23:15 PM - Aug/31/10
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Hamas took responsibility for Tuesday's terror attack in the Hevron area in which a pregnant Israeli woman and 3 other family members were murdered. After at first denying the charges, a top terrorist of Hamas' Izzadin-al-Qassem brigade said that the attack had been carried out by his men, who had “returned safely to base. We applaud the attack, a proof of the failure of talks between the PA and Israel,” Abu Obeidah said in a statement.

Source Arutz 7

A ZAKA volunteer who arrived on the scene recognized his wife's body. "We saw him crying at the scene and didn't understand what was hapenning at first. It wasn't the first disaster he saw," his colleauge, Isaac Berenstein, told the Post. T...hen he shouted, "that's my wife!' That's my wife!'" The volunteer was immediately removed from the scene by his colleagues and taken to his home in Bet Hagai.
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2010-08-31T12:04:00.000-07:00

Hamas praises West Bank shooting attack

Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip praised a shooting that killed four Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday but did not claim responsibility for the attack.

"Hamas praises the attack and regards it as a natural response to the crimes of the occupation," said Sami Abu-Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, adding that the attack was proof "of a failure of security coordination" between Israel and the Palestinians. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, opposes the peace talks starting in Washington on Wednesday and is not taking part. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; editing by Tim Pearce)

Reuters source

2010-08-31T11:51:00.000-07:00

Pregnant Israeli Woman and her family murdered.
Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, congratulated the attackers ....,Hamas opposes direct talks and the continued existence of Israel.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD
/meast/08/31/west.bank.sh...ooting/index.html?hpt=T2

Haaretz

2010-08-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

Daniel Pearl's Father on Hezbollah & Hamas

Jerusalem Post op-ed article, Judea Pearl, father of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel murdered by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan eight years ago

“Terrorist acts, whenever condemned,( by US Muslim Leaders -Ed.) are immediately ‘contextually explicated’ (to quote Tariq Ramadan); spiritual legitimizers of suicide bombings (e.g, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi of Qatar) are revered beyond criticism; Hamas and Hizbullah are permanently shielded from the label of ‘terrorist.’ Overall, the message that emerges from this discourse is unambiguous: When Muslim grievance is at question, America is the culprit and violence is justified, if not obligatory.” READ ON"

2010-08-26T12:51:00.001-07:00

Gaza Hamas Chief Haniyeh:
Direct negotiations will lead to failure

By JPOST.COM STAFF
08/23/2010 18:57

Hamas leader says talks will not restore rights, only God will help the Palestinians, who are a "model for Arab nations;" factions accuse PA of succumbing to outside pressure. READ ON

2010-08-26T12:46:00.000-07:00

Hamas Chief Khaled Mashaal: Talks are illegitimate
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
08/24/2010 21:44

DAMASCUS, Syria — Hamas' exiled leader Khaled Mashaal said Tuesday the upcoming US-backed direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are illegitimate and are the result of coercion by Washington.

"These negotiations are taking place by force of coercion and with an American summons," Mashaal told reporters in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.
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2010-08-26T12:34:00.000-07:00

Hamas: PA detain 28 party members

Published today 16:13 NABLUS (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority's security forces detained 28 Hamas members and affiliates from across the West Bank over the past three days, a statement from the party said Thursday.

Men were detained from the Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, Qalqiliya

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2010-08-26T12:30:00.000-07:00

Netanyahu confirms resolve to reach Shalit deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that his government is still trying to reach an agreement with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) which will include the release of Sergeant Gilad Shalit. The Israeli soldier has been held in Gaza since 2006 and it is expected that a deal to have him released will involve an exchange for possibly hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. READ ON

2010-08-26T12:28:00.000-07:00

French NGO says Gaza security forces (Hamas)shut down clinic

Published Wednesday 18/08/2010 (updated) 19/08/2010 21:01 BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A medical relief NGO said Wednesday that Hamas-affiliated security forces shut down its clinic in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and confiscated equipment.

The French group, Help Doctors said that at 10:30 a.m., four men in civilian clothes including an employee with the Interior Ministry entered the medical dispensary for the care of chronic patients and seized three chairs, a telephone, office equipment, and administrative records.

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2010-08-26T12:24:00.000-07:00

French NGO says Hamas stole equipment
Published today 15:29 GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The French organization Help Doctors operating a clinic in Gaza said that members of the Hamas government security forces seized the remainder of its equipments on Monday.

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2006-09-02T20:25:00.000-07:00

Sat Sep 2, 2006 9:10 am (PST)

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JNF students to help clean north

U.S. students on a Jewish National Fund program will help rebuild
northern Israel after the war with Hezbollah.

The JNF is sending 250 students on a week-long program to replant
forests, clean up the environment and refurbish bomb shelters and public
areas, a JNF release said Thursday. Hundreds of Hezbollah rockets
battered northern Israel during the war.
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2006-09-01T20:43:00.000-07:00

WELL ANSWERED---------
Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Bibi Netanyahu
could get a good measure of satisfaction from his interview with the British Television this morning.
The interviewer asked him: "How come so many more Lebanese have been killed in this conflict than Israelis?" (A nasty question if there ever was one!)
Netanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that direction?"
Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not?
Netanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans were killed than British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by Germany's aggression.
And in response to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in Hiroshima.
Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little children .
Perhaps you have another question?"

With Thanks to MRWeiner , Massachusetts.
God Bless the R.A.F , Israel , The IDF and the USA.
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2006-09-01T19:13:00.000-07:00

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2006-09-01T19:05:00.000-07:00

THE NEW ELITIST PHILOSOPHY-Tired of Fighting? Letter from Ruth Matar

THE NEW ELITIST PHILOSOPHY
Tired of Fighting?

Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Dear Friends,

One of Israel�s most incisive and respected journalists, Ari Shavit, maintains that Israel�s questionable performance in the recent Lebanon War was a logical consequence of the erosion of the national spirit among Israeli elite circles. (By the way, Ari Shavit is both secular and politically left of center.)

In June 2005, Ehud Olmert made the following statement to the Israel Policy Forum in New York:

�We are tired of being courageous. We are tired of winning. We are tired of defeating our enemies. We want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies. We want them to be our friends, our partners, our good neighbors. And I believe that is not impossible."

Ehud Olmert sent a signal to our many enemies that �we� were tired of defending the Israeli homeland and the Israeli people. At that time, Ehud Olmert was only Vice Prime Minister to then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and not in a position of authority to make such an irresponsible statement.

This statement by Ehud Olmert shocked not only the Israeli public, but our friends abroad as well. Moreover, it should have been a red light signal to Israelis as to what a dangerous man Ehud Olmert really is. His philosophy is detrimental to Israel�s very survival.

Olmert�s statement to the Israel Policy Forum in 2005 expressed his attitude exactly. He is truly tired of fighting and winning, so tired that he would rather take refuge in fantasies, in lies, empty promises and evasion of any responsibility.

On August 27, Ehud Olmert took advantage of a cabinet meeting with his ministers to tell them how much better Israel�s position is now than before the war. This is a clear example of Olmert�s fantasizing!

Ehud Olmert agreed to the unfavorable UN Resolution 1701 which included a ceasefire agreement. This resolution did not disarm Hezbullah, and did not even achieve the return of our kidnapped reserve soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.

Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz are widely criticized for the mismanagement of the war, and their colossal failures in planning, intelligence, lack of proper equipment and rescue efforts. Large groups of reserve soldiers who were conscripted to take part in the war are demonstrating outside the Prime Minister�s office, demanding a full-blown inquiry into the management of the war with Hezbullah and the resignation of Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz and Chief of Staff Lt.-General Halutz.

In spite of these demonstrations by the reserve soldiers, Ehud Olmert refuses to set up a full-blown State Commission of inquiry to probe the Lebanon War, opting instead to establish three committees with lesser powers.

Unfortunately, Olmert is not the only one suffering from the lack of a national spirit, and the core values of Zionism, such as love of God, love of Torah, love of Eretz Israel, and love of the Jewish People.

On August 28, 2006, the Jerusalem Post published an article by Isi Leibler which is a must-read for everyone who is concerned about Israel�s future.

Mr. Leibler discusses the undermining of national idealism in the"elite" sector of Israeli society: "There, it would seem that an increasing percentage of youngsters from affluent families attending elite schools are being discouraged by their parents from entering combat units and, in extreme cases, even shamelessly evading military service altogether." In this connection, IDF manpower Chief Maj.-Gen. Elazar Stern recently made the chilling observation that he paid proportionately fewer condolence calls to bereaved families in Tel Aviv than in the rest of the country.

2006-09-01T16:32:00.000-07:00

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous to the Absurd!

Shalom everyone. As I read the following articles, I was tempted to think that I was merely reading stories from Chelm and therefore had nothing to worry about. Unfortunately these stories are not from Chelm but from the State of Israel. Clearly Hashem is watching over the State of Israel, as that is the only explanation for the continued survival of the State of Israel in spite of its "leadership" which is absolutely pathetic and its hard-core leftists which are nothing short of traitors. It is truly mind boggling that the Israeli leadership could even contemplate, much less accept, a cease fire that relies largely on the UN and its forces to protect Israel's security. This leadership must go in a hurry and be replaced by real Jewish leadership, leadership that understands that the Arabs, not the Settlers, are the enemies who want to destroy the State of Israel; leadership that will use the IDF to protect Jews instead of to evict Jews from their homes; leadership that
will not sit idly by as Jews are butchered by terrorists; leadership that will not sit idly by while Hezbollah and Hamas and all the other terrorist organizations gain access to more and more sophisticated weaponry and build more and more sophisticated infrastructures; leadership that will regard the UN as what it truly is - an enemy; leadership that will not fight a war half-heartedly by taking insane measures to ensure the safety of a Lebanese "civilian," who is probably a Hezbollah fighter or at the very least a Hezbollalh sympathizer anyway, and thereby putting IDF soldiers at risk of injury or death by terrorists waiting for them in buildings and forests that were not leveled by the Israeli air force and Israeli civilians at risk of homelessness, injury or death from kassam and katyusha rockets continuing to be shot at them by Hezbollah terrorists who were not eliminated; and a leadership that will shake the very foundations of the universe to bring all 8 of its MIAs

home and to bring Jonathan Pollard home! We must all do everything in our power to see to it that real Jewish leadership comes to the State of Israel NOW!

The following is an excerpt from an article that appeared in today's email news from Arutz 7: A soldier has been removed from an IDF checkpoint near Tul Karem, east of Netanya, after his parents complained of his commander's behavior. The incident occurred when women of the left-wing Machsom Watch organization persuaded the checkpoint commander not to closely inspect a suspiciously-dressed Arab man. The man stood out by wearing a suit on a hot day, and the soldiers wished to have lift his shirt, in accordance with procedure, to prove he was not wearing an explosives vest. Machsom Watch women, however, speaking by phone to the commander, convinced him to order his soldiers not to do so. The women said, "He is a respected man; you can see that he's OK."

The parents of one of the soldiers filed a complaint with the IDF, saying that the commander, by giving in to the women, issued an "illegal order that endangered soldiers and citizens." ...

While MK Hanegbi vacationed in Florida his committee saved the Golan

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 30 August 2006

While Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee Chairman Kadima MK Tzachi
Hanegbi vacationed with his family in Florida during the war in Lebanon,
other committee members acted to save the Golan.

Amir Rapaport, military analyst for the Maariv newspaper, revealed in a
report on 18 August that during the course of the first two weeks of the war
in Lebanon, while the Syria army went on full alert and massed forces near
the border, the IDF relied on the standard deployment of a small force of
mostly patrolling reserves to defend the Golan Heights from a Syrian
invasion.

According to Rapaport, the IDF only deployed forces to defend the Golan from
the threat of the massed Syrian forces after members of the Knesset Foreign
Affairs & Defense Committee, including MKs Yuval Steinitz, Effie Eitam and
Matan Vilnai met on the matter and even toured the area.

MK Steinitz confirms his involvement in his Jerusalem Post interview on 29
August.

A source in the Knesset working in the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense
Committee who is intimately aware of the events, told IMRA today that
Hanegbi had no role in the actions of the Committee on this matter.

Hanegbi explained in a live telephone interview broadcast on Israel
Television Channel Two on 6 August that there was no problem with his going
on vacation with his family to Fort Lauderdale Florida in the middle of the
war as there wasn't much for his committee to do at the time and that he was
following developments from Florida.

Hanegbi noted his special circumstance: his wife is an immigrant from
America and they always join her family in the summer in Florida.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/ Fax 972-3-7255730
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
Website: http://www.imra.org.il

2006-09-01T14:49:00.000-07:00

Hezbollah's `victory'

By Charles Krauthammer, The Jewish World Review, 9/1/06

"We did not think, even 1 percent, that the capture would lead to a
war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on
July 11 . . . that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do
it? I say no, absolutely not."

— Hasan Nasrallah,

Hezbollah leader, Aug. 27

So much for the "strategic and historic victory" Nasrallah had
claimed less than two weeks earlier. What real victor declares that,
had he known, he would not have started the war that ended in
triumph?

Nasrallah's admission, vastly underplayed in the West, makes clear
what the Lebanese already knew. Hezbollah may have won the propaganda
war, but on the ground it lost. Badly.

True, under the inept and indecisive leadership of Ehud Olmert,
Israel did miss the opportunity to militarily destroy Hezbollah and
make it a non-factor in Israel's security, Lebanon's politics and
Iran's foreign policy. Nonetheless, Hezbollah was seriously hurt. It
lost hundreds of its best fighters. A deeply entrenched
infrastructure on Israel's border is in ruins. The great hero has had
to go so deep into hiding that Nasrallah has been called "the
underground mullah."

Most important, Hezbollah's political gains within Lebanon during the
war have proved illusory. As the dust settles, the Lebanese are
furious at Hezbollah for provoking a war that brought them nothing
but devastation — and then crowing about victory amid the ruins.

The Western media were once again taken in by the mystique of
the "Arab street." The mob came out to cheer Hezbollah for raining
rockets on Israel — surprise! — and the Arab governments that had
initially criticized Hezbollah went conveniently silent. Now that the
mob has gone home, Hezbollah is under renewed attack — in newspapers
in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt, as well as by many Lebanese,
including influential Shiite academics and clan leaders. The Arabs
know where their interests lie. And they do not lie with a Shiite
militia that fights for Iran.

Even before the devastation, Hezbollah in the last election garnered
only about 20 percent of the vote, hardly a mandate. Hezbollah has
guns, however, and that is the source of its power. But now even that
is threatened. Hence Nasrallah's admission. He knows that Lebanon,
however weak its army, has a deep desire to disarm him and that the
arrival of Europeans in force, however weak their mandate, will make
impossible the rebuilding of the vast Maginot Line he spent six years
constructing.

Which is why the expected Round Two will, in fact, not happen.
Hezbollah is in no position, either militarily or politically, for
another round. Nasrallah's admission that the war was a mistake is an
implicit pledge not to repeat it, lest he be completely finished as a
Lebanese political figure.

The Lebanese know that Israel bombed easy-to-repair airport runways
when it could have destroyed the new airport terminal and set Lebanon
back 10 years. The Lebanese know that Israel attacked the Hezbollah
TV towers when it could have pulverized Beirut's power grid, a
billion-dollar reconstruction. The Lebanese know that the next time,
Israel's leadership will hardly be as hesitant and restrained.
Hezbollah dares not risk that next time.

Even more important is the shift once again in the internal Lebanese
balance of power. With Nasrallah weakened, the other major factions
are closing in around him. Even his major Christian ally, Michel
Aoun, has called for Hezbollah's disarmament. The March 14 democratic
movement has regained the upper hand and, with outside help, could
marginalize Hezbollah.

In a country this weak, outsiders can be decisive. A strong European
presence in the south, serious U.S. training and equipment for the
Lebanese army, and relentless pressure at the United Nations can tip
the balance. We should be especially aggressive at the United Nations
in pursuing the investigation of Syria for the murder of Rafiq Hariri
and in implementing resolutions mandating the disarmament of
Hezbollah.

It was just 18 months ago that the democrats of the March 14 movement
expelled Syria from Lebanon and rose to power, marking the apogee of
the U.S. democratization project in the region. Nasrallah's temporary
rise during the just-finished war marked that project's nadir.
Nasrallah's crowing added to the general despair in Washington about
a rising "Shiite crescent" stretching from Tehran to Beirut.

In fact, Hezbollah was seriously set back, as was Iran. In the Middle
East, however, promising moments pass quickly. This one needs to be
seized. We must pretend that Security Council Resolution 1701 was
meant to be implemented and exert unrelieved pressure on behalf of
those Lebanese — a large majority — who want to do the implementing.

2006-09-01T13:03:00.000-07:00

General Ya'alon -A Call To Service

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz should take responsibility for their failures during the second Lebanon war and resign, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon said Thursday.

Ya'alon, whom polls show would be a serious candidate for prime minister if he decided to run with the Likud, blamed prime minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza Strip disengagement for causing the war.

Responding to charges from Olmert's associates blaming his polices as IDF chief for the war, Ya'alon told The Jerusalem Post, in his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his return from the US last week, that until disengagement, Hizbullah had restrained itself, but that withdrawing unilaterally from Gaza had encouraged it to attack.

"I am in favor of a state commission of inquiry to investigate," Ya'alon said.

Israel and the international community must wake up from their approach of appeasement and make Iran and Syria pay a price for the war in Lebanon, Ya'alon said.

Ya'alon started work this week at the new Institute for International and Middle Eastern Studies at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based academic institute. Together with Prof. Martin Kramer and other top scholars, he came to the institute to strategize how Israel and the world should respond to the Islamic fundamentalist threat.

"When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Israel should be wiped off the map, he means to destroy the West," Ya'alon said. "The world is sleeping. We are sleeping, too."

Upon taking over as chief of General Staff in 2002, Ya'alon said he believed that Hizbullah was in the midst of undergoing a process of restraining itself. Every Hizbullah provocation, he said, was met by a fierce IDF response. The world, he said, was also beginning to recognize Hizbullah as a terror group, and Israel was succeeding against Hizbullah both diplomatically and militarily. But then came disengagement.

"The disengagement was portrayed as a victory for terrorism, and it was a reward for Hizbullah and the Palestinians," said Ya'alon, a vocal critic of withdrawal.

Calling Israel's war against Hizbullah the "world's war," he said that the international community's approach of appeasement "encourages terror against the world."

"I am worried by the world's behavior," he said. "The West is stronger than Islamic fundamentalism, but the West's lack of determination worries me."

UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for a cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah, was another act of appeasement, Ya'alon said.

"The world agrees that Lebanon must have sovereignty and that Hizbullah must be disarmed. Most of Lebanon is in favor," he said. "But the world put out a resolution that helped Hizbullah with a cease-fire, and the rest is just declarative... the disarmament of Hizbullah should have been possible to achieve even without a war."

Iran and Syria, he said, had to be held accountable for the war. He said that Hizbullah was their proxy, and the world was letting Iran and Syria get away without paying a price.

"We have to handle this at a diplomatic level," he said. "Iran uses proxies, and Syria plays the role of facilitator, and the world is letting them get away with it. We need a diplomatic effort to make sure the world holds them responsible."

If Syria and Iran didn't pay a price, he said, it would put into question Israel's achievements in the war.

"The West is being portrayed as lacking determination, and that image is hurting us," he claimed. "We lived for a decade under the assumption that we were about to obtain peace and quiet. We need to be woken up."