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Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Flash90)
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| By Israel Insider staff November 8, 2007 |
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| Ben-Eliezer shows off miniature versions of the kind of vehicles that destroyed Israeli homes and communities in Gaza (Flash90) |
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The disengagement from Gaza "was a mistake" National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer told Non-Stop Radio (Radio Lelo Hafsaka) Thursday.
"I admit and confess," Ben Eliezer said, "I was with those who strongly supported [former prime minister] Ariel Sharon, and today I say with my head held high: We erred, we made a very big mistake."
So why is his head still held high? Well, he couldn't predict the obvious.
The problem, he said, was that Gaza was not "handed over to responsible hands and anchored in agreements and international guarantees. Here we have a precedent -- a territory we left turns into a base for terror -- period."
As another three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel, one near what was described as a "strategic facility" in southern Ashkelon, Ben Eliezer said there was no escape from the need to act with force in response, regardless of potential harm to civilians. "Israel must respond, what else?"
Ben Eliezer said "Israel continues to say 'I bind myself to ethical obligations' that no other country in the world binds itself to, as opposed to the Palestinians, who glory in death: "There is a contradiction here between two disciplines," he said. "One nation is prepared to commit suicide and sees it as a mitzvah and an honor, and another wants to spare every ounce of blood." |
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