"Once again, Europe has ignored calls for Israel's destruction," Lieberman told Israeli public radio. "We've already seen this at the end of the 1930s and at the beginning of the 1940s when Europe knew what was happening in the concentration camps and didn't act. "Europe has slapped itself in the face," he added.
"When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next. In Toulouse, the terrorist who killed Jewish children also killed French soldiers," said Lieberman. He was referring to Mohamed Merah, who killed three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher in the French city of Toulouse in March, days after killing three French troops. "Terrorism attacks Jews but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre," he added. Lieberman also criticised Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas for failing to publicly criticise Meshaal's speech and pursuing reconciliation with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement which runs the Gaza Strip.