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“After Annapolis, we needed to come to the conclusion that Abbas is not a partner for peace, but rather an obstacle,” Lieberman proclaimed.  “He uses rhetoric against conventional terror but facilitates political terrorism.  The recent initiatives cannot be defined as anything but political terrorism.  If we are talking seriously about a political process, we first need to get rid of Abbas in Ramallah and destroy the Hamas regime in Gaza.  Without these two things, all of our efforts are just talk.”

The Israeli Foreign Minister warned of the implications of the Palestinian unilateral appeals at the UN, saying, “What happened, especially in the last month, is crossing all of the red lines.  Another attempt to pass the unilateral decision in the Security Council on the establishment of a Palestinian state and their joining the International Criminal Court in the Hague leaves us no choice but to act against Abbas.  We must not allow the money that is frozen for the Palestinians to ‘thaw’ after a short period of time as it has in the past.  This time, we must make it clear that the money will be transferred only after Abbas is gone.”

He sharply criticized the conduct of the European countries in the face of growing anti-Semitism after the terror attack on the kosher supermarket in France.  “Most of the conversations, around the world and in France, were regarding freedom of expression, on extremism, on Islamophobia, and not on anti-Semitism, and this is very worrying, especially following the terror attacks in Toulouse and the Jewish Museum in Brussels,” Lieberman said.  “We need to stop being so politically correct and we must start telling the truth.  It is the same classic hatred of Jews, just the modern version, and murderous anti-Semitism is the main foundation of radical Islam.”