H.E. Mr. Boaz Modai:

It must be understood that no other country - at least, no other country I know of - would fail to retaliate if it were attacked. I have said many times in articles I have written and in interviews that if anyone has a brilliant idea that would help us to solve this problem, I would be more than happy to hear it. We have heard nothing. We have been told to sit quietly without retaliating, which is not a reply.

The Deputy asked why we are opposed to the Palestinian unity government. We find it almost impossible to think of a government that uses one hand to shake our hands during meetings and the other hand to keep launching missiles at us. It just does not work this way. When the Deputy referred to an agreement that was reached in 2012, he failed to mention some other parts of the same agreement. It was decided that the blockade would not be lifted. The main thing was that the area would be demilitarised. Hamas and other terrorist organisations were supposed to be completely disarmed. That was part of it. It did not happen. The other part of the same agreement did not happen either.