\"To say that we must return to the negotiating table at this point is total folly.\" So said Public Security Minister Uzi Landau this evening, adding, \"The negotiations of the Oslo process, with Ehud Barak\'s willingness to give away [practically everything] at its apex, have brought upon us the biggest catastrophe in the history of the State of Israel. We have to behave like the Americans: Before the start of any negotiations, we have to totally wipe out all the terrorism...\"
The Yesha Council (Council of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Communities), at an emergency meeting at Karnei Shomron last night, demanded that Prime Minister Sharon immediately put an end to the policy of restraint. \"Sharon must urgently defeat the largest terror organization in the world - the Palestinian Authority,\" the Council resolved, noting that the last 18 months have proved that it is not enough to thwart specific actions and to carry out limited responses: \"An operation to bring down the Palestinian Authority and clean out the territory of terrorists and the terror infrastructure must be carried out.\"
MK Michael Kleiner (Herut) said in response to last night\'s murderous attack, \"The Palestinians are trying to win the war with points, and we must defeat them in a knockout. We can\'t win the war without retaking the territories of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and expelling every terrorist and everyone holding a weapon.\"
MK Tommy Lapid, head of the socially-left but politically more-to-the-right Shinui party, demands that Sharon appear before the public today and explain the situation. \"It cannot be that after a weekend of killing, and when Sharon is quoted as declaring war, he doesn\'t tell the public what is going on,\" Lapid said.
MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union): \"We must shake off these games of phony morality and carry out clear deterrence measures. The suicide terrorist must be wrapped in pigskin, his family expelled, and his home destroyed.\"
MK Sha\'ul Yahalom (National Religious Party) says that the barren talk of separation must be stopped at once: \"This is one Land of Israel, on both sides of the Green Line. We can defeat the terrorism only by remaining within the hothouses of terrorism [capturing PA-controlled areas] until it is liquidated.\"
Lt.-Col. (res.) Moti Yogev, currently the Secretary-General of Bnei Akiva who once served as a battalion commander in Judea and Samaria, was asked by Arutz-7 today: \"What can the army do that it has not yet done?\" His response:
\"The army, operating within its current outlook that does not accept that we are at war, can exact heavier and more deterrent prices from the PA, but basically this would be just \'more of the same.\' In other words, the present strategy cannot solve the problem...
\"It\'s good, however, that Sharon has used the word \'war.\' The U.S. said that it was at war immediately after the Sept. 11 bombing... Sharon has no choice: he must fight the war, prepare the nation for it, prepare a consensus, prepare the necessary legal background, and the like. [Even if we do not have total international support], we always knew how to make the critical decisions, starting with our very declaration of independence by Ben-Gurion, and during the Six-Day War, to do what was necessary...
\"To totally oppress terrorism, we have to retake all the territories we handed over to the PA, we have to arrest all those who came from abroad [the PLO in Lebanon and Tunisia - ed. note] to kill us and oppress the Arab population that was already here, and then to destroy the terrorist cells. To those who ask whether I want our soldiers to return to patrol in the refugee camps in Gaza and Shechem, the answer is clear: Yes, that would be much better than having suicide terrorists growing up in those areas and than coming to Jerusalem and blowing themselves up...\"
The Yesha Council (Council of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Communities), at an emergency meeting at Karnei Shomron last night, demanded that Prime Minister Sharon immediately put an end to the policy of restraint. \"Sharon must urgently defeat the largest terror organization in the world - the Palestinian Authority,\" the Council resolved, noting that the last 18 months have proved that it is not enough to thwart specific actions and to carry out limited responses: \"An operation to bring down the Palestinian Authority and clean out the territory of terrorists and the terror infrastructure must be carried out.\"
MK Michael Kleiner (Herut) said in response to last night\'s murderous attack, \"The Palestinians are trying to win the war with points, and we must defeat them in a knockout. We can\'t win the war without retaking the territories of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and expelling every terrorist and everyone holding a weapon.\"
MK Tommy Lapid, head of the socially-left but politically more-to-the-right Shinui party, demands that Sharon appear before the public today and explain the situation. \"It cannot be that after a weekend of killing, and when Sharon is quoted as declaring war, he doesn\'t tell the public what is going on,\" Lapid said.
MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union): \"We must shake off these games of phony morality and carry out clear deterrence measures. The suicide terrorist must be wrapped in pigskin, his family expelled, and his home destroyed.\"
MK Sha\'ul Yahalom (National Religious Party) says that the barren talk of separation must be stopped at once: \"This is one Land of Israel, on both sides of the Green Line. We can defeat the terrorism only by remaining within the hothouses of terrorism [capturing PA-controlled areas] until it is liquidated.\"
Lt.-Col. (res.) Moti Yogev, currently the Secretary-General of Bnei Akiva who once served as a battalion commander in Judea and Samaria, was asked by Arutz-7 today: \"What can the army do that it has not yet done?\" His response:
\"The army, operating within its current outlook that does not accept that we are at war, can exact heavier and more deterrent prices from the PA, but basically this would be just \'more of the same.\' In other words, the present strategy cannot solve the problem...
\"It\'s good, however, that Sharon has used the word \'war.\' The U.S. said that it was at war immediately after the Sept. 11 bombing... Sharon has no choice: he must fight the war, prepare the nation for it, prepare a consensus, prepare the necessary legal background, and the like. [Even if we do not have total international support], we always knew how to make the critical decisions, starting with our very declaration of independence by Ben-Gurion, and during the Six-Day War, to do what was necessary...
\"To totally oppress terrorism, we have to retake all the territories we handed over to the PA, we have to arrest all those who came from abroad [the PLO in Lebanon and Tunisia - ed. note] to kill us and oppress the Arab population that was already here, and then to destroy the terrorist cells. To those who ask whether I want our soldiers to return to patrol in the refugee camps in Gaza and Shechem, the answer is clear: Yes, that would be much better than having suicide terrorists growing up in those areas and than coming to Jerusalem and blowing themselves up...\"