Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli army will be ordered in the next war to “go in full force.”
During a conference by the Institute for National Security Studies on Tuesday, Lieberman said the Israeli army will stop at nothing to defeat the enemy in conflicts to come, and they won’t stop until the adversary “waves a white flag.”
“It doesn’t matter where the next conflict breaks out, it has to be at full strength,” Lieberman told the audience. “You recruit the entire army, the entire reserves; you go full strength until the end, until the other side… raises a white flag. We don’t stop in the middle.”
“If a quarter of the Strip is needed, then we occupy a quarter of the Strip. If more, then more,” he said, according to Haaretz.
On the other hand, Liebverman said the Zionist entity has approved the construction of thousands of settlement units in the West Bank, relating the move to Donald Trump’s taking office as US president.
“There is nothing new about it, we have always constructed [settlements], including under the (former President Barack) Obama administration,” Lieberman said.
Meanwhile, the Israeli minister lashed out at the international community, including the US, Russia, and especially the EU, for their attempts to play an intermediary role in the Israeli-Palestine dispute.
Lieberman argued that these efforts are in vain, as, apart from not grasping the essence of this particular conflict, “its roots and how it develops,” the world is largely failing at mediation, listing Kosovo, Cyprus, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, among others, as examples.
“The over-involvement of the world powers, especially Europe, is only disrupting. They don’t contribute anything to the problem’s solution, they only complicate things,” he said, as cited by The Times of Israel, while advising “whoever wants to help solve” the conflict, “first forget it.”
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