He insisted that the Turkey-Israel strategic alliance – which some AKP insiders have said privately is over – remains alive but chided the Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who he said had threatened to use nuclear weapons against Gaza.'threatened to use nuclear weapons against Gaza?' Not surprisingly the Israeli press picked up on the comment.
See Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post which both make what appears in the Guardian article, a 'throw away' comment, their headline.
With the demographic time bomb ticking, nuking Gaza would certainly be one way to keep an Israeli majority between the Mediterranean and Jordan. Jeff Gates over at Veterans Today points out,
"The threat to Israel is not the 1.5 million Gazans who reside in the world’s largest open-air prison. The threat is the fast-growing global outrage at the abuse inflicted on Palestinians..."Intentionally or otherwise Lieberman is playing into the hands of Christian Zionists like John Hagee who are it seems 'anxious for armageddon'. At the July 19th, 2006 Washington DC inaugural event for Christians United for Israel, after hearing recorded greeting from George W. Bush, and in the presence of US Senators and Israeli ambassador to the US, Hagee stated :
The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.
