by Eldad Beck
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan tells Frankfurt conference that if the Lebanese government allows terrorist group Hezbollah to launch missiles at Israel, the IDF will "obliterate" Hezbollah
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Strategic Affairs
Minister Gilad Erdan speaks with Iraqi beauty
queen Sarah Idan in
Frankfurt, Sunday
Strategic
Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan warned on Sunday that if the Lebanese
government allows the terrorist group Hezbollah to launch missiles at
Israeli civilians, Israel will have no choice but to obliterate
Hezbollah's terror network and any infrastructure that serves it,
including Lebanese civilian infrastructure.
"If we are attacked, we will attack every
facility that serves Hezbollah. We will not wait for Hezbollah and Iran
to achieve their sinister goals," Erdan said at a pro-Israel conference
in Frankfurt.
Erdan said Iran was continuing its efforts
to carry out terrorist attacks on European soil,despite the arrests of a
number of Iranian would-be attackers in recent months in several
European countries.
Erdan urged Germany, one of the six world
powers that entered into the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran over
Israel's objections, to alter its policy toward Iran and take the reins
in leading the European Union to make the "moral" choice, presumably to
exit the nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Iran.
"Germany needs to take a stronger, more resolute stand against the most anti-Semitic regime in the world," Erdan said.
"Only yesterday, the 'moderate' Iranian president called Israel a 'cancerous tumor.'
History has taught us that when fanatic leaders with aspirations of
world domination make anti-Semitic threats we need to take them
seriously, particularly when they are linked to a global terror network,
develop a ballistic missile program and murder citizens.
"The Iranian people want the Iranian regime
to change its behavior. The Syrian people want to stop being killed by
the Iranians. The Gulf states want to effect a change in the Iranian
regime's behavior. It is unthinkable that amid all that, Germany's
attitude remains business as usual with Iran. Germany needs to join the
U.S. and impose sanctions."
Erdan also called on Germany and other
European Union nations to stop funding organizations that support the
anti-Israel boycott movement.
"EU states generally don't support boycotts
against Israel, but in practice, in the guise of human rights work,
they give millions of euros every year to advance boycotts against
Israel, and that must stop," he said.
"Just as the EU wouldn't fund organizations
that promote racism, it should not fund organizations that promote
anti-Israel boycotts. Germany can take the lead in stemming this kind of
funding."
The conference, the Deutscher
Israelkongress, was also attended by Iraqi beauty queen Sarah Idan, who
has been widely criticized in the Arab world for her pro-Israel views
and who was forced to flee Iraq because she and her family faced death
threats after she had posed for a photo with Israeli Miss Universe
contestant Adar Gandelsman during a pageant in 2017.
Idan became a social activist and has even visited Israel.
Eldad Beck
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/11/26/israel-will-hit-civilian-targets-in-lebanon-if-hezbollah-attacks-minister-warns/
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