Avigdor Liberman
Avigdor LibermanBen Kelmer/Flash 90

Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman accused the government under Binyamin Netanyahu of "stuttering and zig-zagging," and failing to carry out its promises to bring security to Israel's citizens.

Speaking to Kol Yisrael public radio, Liberman noted: "They still haven't outlawed the Islamic Movement. They wait months until they ask to destroy terrorists' families' homes. They do not revoke the residency of terrorists."

"It's all just talk," he said, adding the term "kalam fadi ("empty words" in Arabic – ed.)."

Liberman charged that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon promised Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas "under the table" to give "immunity" to terror leaders in Gaza and not to harm them.

"When Egyptian President (Abdel Fattah) al-Sisi decided to create an area free of residents and foliage in Gaza, it took 48 hours to destroy all of the houses and the orchards. I did not hear any Palestinian leader or any lawyer from the territories complaining about al-Sisi."

The northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel made more threats against Israel on Monday, defying a promise from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to blacklist the group and ignoring several major Israeli political statements. 

"You should know that Netanyahu is leading you into a religious war," Shiekh Kamal Khatib, deputy head of the movement, stated to Walla! News. "Israeli Jews, your numbers consist of eight million, but you will stand in this war against 13 million Palestinians - not just against hundreds of millions of Arabs, but all 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide."