Avigdor Liberman, leader of Israel’s opposition Yisrael Beiteinu Party, on Monday denounced the Trump administration’s plan to let aid supplies into the Gaza Strip as a “very, very negative development.”
“In my opinion, humanitarian aid—of any kind—should not have been allowed to enter since the start of the war, as long as our hostages are rotting in Hamas’s tunnels,” Liberman stated in response to a question from JNS at his party’s faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem.
“We just need to say it out loud to everyone and stand by it,” Liberman said. “You want humanitarian aid? First, return the hostages, then we’ll talk. And therefore, for me, this is a very, very negative development.”
Fifty-eight abductees remain captive in Gaza, according to official Israel Defense Forces figures. It is believed that up to 23 of them are still alive, with heavy question marks over one Israeli and two foreign nationals.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday stressed the government’s full backing of the American-led humanitarian plan for the Strip, which was announced on Friday by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
“Humanitarian aid will be facilitated by a private fund—based on the principles laid out by the US administration,” Sa’ar said, adding that the plan will enable aid “directly to the people” and not to Hamas terrorists.
Washington’s plan is “based on international humanitarian law and its principles, which we are committed to. And we would like to cooperate with as many countries and NGOs as possible on the matter,” he added.
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The scripture says that if your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. It doesn’t say anything about whether you are to give him something to when he is still able to fight you, that should be a given that you don’t feed him so he can still be able to fight. Common sense is something those who have never heard a bullet snap past your head are completely ignorant about. They have, for the most part, never been around anyone who will kill them solely for the purpose of doing so, YET, they think they know best. The world is full of people whose wealth is gotten from inheritance so they think because of that their opinion about what goes on in Israel should be placed at the front of what any one from Israel says or thinks.
These one world order types should have to spend a month in the tunnels of Gaza and be treated like the Israeli’s have been treated before they would be allowed to give their opinion on anything Israeli.
The faster the enemy goes hungry, the faster he is going to be willing to do what it will take to get something to eat, common sense the worlds leaders haven’t got a clue about.