During a Likud faction meeting Monday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's condemnation of the Itamar massacre and demanded he work harder to stop the incitement against Israel.
Earlier, Abbas condemned the Itamar massacre during an Israeli radio interview. The terror attack was "a disgraceful act, inhuman and immoral," he said.
"I'm not capable of seeing a four-month-old baby girl murdered, or a woman slaughtered, Any person who has a sense of humanity would be pained and driven to tears by such sights. Had we had advance information, we would have prevented this, Now we want to know who carried it out."
Netanyahu praised Abbas for condemning the murder of the Fogel family in Itamar, but stressed that Abbas must also do so in the Palestinian media. "He must make it clear to his people as well," Netanyahu insisted.
"Abu-Mazen (Abbas) must make it clearer to his people as well that murder isn't acceptable and he must clarify that the incitement must stop. It's in his hands - and the sooner the better".
"I demanded that the international community condemn this crime. Some did and others either didn't or did so in a very strange and technical manner".
During the Likud faction meeting Netanyahu complained before faction members and ministers that "For the most part, I stand here all alone! Alone!" in the face of international criticism leveled at the Israeli government.