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JERUSALEM, May 23 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - After
drawing an outcry from the four corners of the globe, Israel's
onslaught on the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah was condemned by an
Israeli minister as "not humane," and making Israel
"looks like monsters to the rest of the world".
Israeli
Justice Minister Tommy Lapid told the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday,
May 23, that Israel's "demolition of houses in Rafah must stop.
It is not humane, not Jewish, and causes us grave damage in the
world," reported Ha'aretz.
"At
the end of the day, they'll kick us out of the United Nations, try
those responsible in the international court in The Hague, and no one
will want to speak with us," the Israeli daily quoted him as
warning.
"I
was in the United States last week, and I noticed that we look like
monsters to the rest of the world," Agence France-Presse (AFP)
quoted Lapid as saying.
The
justice minister dismissed as "crazy" Israel's plan "to
destroy 2,000 to 3,000 homes in Rafah."
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"When
I saw the images on television of an old Palestinian woman on her
knees in the process of looking for her medication in the debris that
was once her home, it reminded me of my grandmother," Lapid told
Israel's military radio.
His
grandmother was reportedly killed in Germany during the reign of Nazi
leader Adolf Hitler.
Lapid
was fiercely attacked by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who
accused him of feeding the "anti-Israeli propaganda
machine," said AFP.
Sharon,
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
asked him to retract his comments, according to Ha'aretz.
"I
am not making any comparison between Israel and the Nazis. I am merely
expressing the association of ideas that came to mind when I saw those
images. When you see an old woman, you think of your
grandmother," Lapid countered.
Israel
has launched a fierce aggression on the Rafah last week,
