Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is the main obstacle to rehabilitating the Gaza strip, Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah said Tuesday.
“Senior Israeli security officials are saying that Abu Mazen is the main obstacle to alleviating the crisis in Gaza,” said Shelah. “We must not let him drag us to an unnecessary war.”
Shelah continued that if Abbas fails to cooperate with Israel’s efforts to stop the escalation, it can bypass him. “There are things we can do alone, there are things we can do with the United Nations Special Envoy [Nikolay] Mladenov,” said Shelah.
“Today, even [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu and [Defense Minister Avigdor] Liberman admit, with their actions if not their words, that we must create a better reality in Gaza, not for their benefit but for ours,” Shelah concluded. “Otherwise, we will be dragged into the next war, which will only bring blood and suffering and will not achieve a thing.”
Written by Yona Schnitzer/TPS | Photo by Hillel Maeir/TPS