Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that Gaza terrorists’ rocket barrage on Israel buries a chance of a land link with Judea and Samaria. He also said Iran is Hamas’s lifeline.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the 20th year since the deadly Hizbullah-backed terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, the Foreign Minister said, “The continued firing has buried any possibility of there ever being a territorial continuity between Gaza and Judea and Samaria.
“There is no chance that we will agree to a passage, whether it is open, closed, above ground underground. The Palestinians have decreed on themselves to separation, and the way things look at the moment it will continue for generations.”
Previous Israeli governments have hatched the idea that an enormously long underground tunnel and highway without exits would connect Gaza with Samaria. The plan never was detailed and has been long buried because of the end of the “peace process” for establishing the Palestinian Authority as a new Arab country within Israel’s current borders.
In his remarks Monday, Lieberman also said that Hamas owes is existence to Iran, which has funded the terrorist organization and equipped it with weapons smuggled into Gaza by land and sea.
He also said that Israel this year will build a new embassy in Buenos Aires, which will remind people that terror “will not scare us.”