Bethlehem - Ma'an - Right-wing Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman proposed a "solution" to the war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday saying, "Israel won't be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting."

"We must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II," Lieberman added.

According to reports in Israeli media, he said the US nuclear strikes had rendered an "occupation of the country . unnecessary."

Avigdor Lieberman, a member of parliament and the chairman of the Israel Beiteinu party, was speaking at at Bar-Ilan University.

Lieberman's comments drew criticism from Palestinian officials.

To Dr Mustafa Barghouthi, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, "the Israeli politicians statements disproportionate, such as their bloody actions on our people in Gaza."

"In 1945, US launched two atomic bomb attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, resulting in one of the biggest tragedy in human history that has been condemned many times", added the deputy.

"Avidgor Lieberman is an extreme orator from whom we are used to hear extreme speeches. But this shows one more time that Israel never learn lesson from the past and rather invokes one of the bloodiest massacres in History to be the fate of the Gazans. They don't have respect for human life", he said, noting high amount of support for Israel's war on the Gaza Strip among the Israeli public.



***Updated at 20:59 local time