Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan warned on Sunday that if the Lebanese government allows the terrorist group Hezbollah to launch missiles at Israeli civilians, Israel will have no choice but to obliterate Hezbollah's terror network and any infrastructure that serves it, including Lebanese civilian infrastructure.
"If we are attacked, we will attack every facility that serves Hezbollah. We will not wait for Hezbollah and Iran to achieve their sinister goals," Erdan said at a pro-Israel conference in Frankfurt.
Erdan said Iran was continuing its efforts to carry out terrorist attacks on European soil,despite the arrests of a number of Iranian would-be attackers in recent months in several European countries.
Erdan urged Germany, one of the six world powers that entered into the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran over Israel's objections, to alter its policy toward Iran and take the reins in leading the European Union to make the "moral" choice, presumably to exit the nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Iran.
"Germany needs to take a stronger, more resolute stand against the most anti-Semitic regime in the world," Erdan said.
"Only yesterday, the 'moderate' Iranian president called Israel a 'cancerous tumor.' History has taught us that when fanatic leaders with aspirations of world domination make anti-Semitic threats we need to take them seriously, particularly when they are linked to a global terror network, develop a ballistic missile program and murder citizens.
"The Iranian people want the Iranian regime to change its behavior. The Syrian people want to stop being killed by the Iranians. The Gulf states want to effect a change in the Iranian regime's behavior. It is unthinkable that amid all that, Germany's attitude remains business as usual with Iran. Germany needs to join the U.S. and impose sanctions."
Erdan also called on Germany and other European Union nations to stop funding organizations that support the anti-Israel boycott movement.
"EU states generally don't support boycotts against Israel, but in practice, in the guise of human rights work, they give millions of euros every year to advance boycotts against Israel, and that must stop," he said.
"Just as the EU wouldn't fund organizations that promote racism, it should not fund organizations that promote anti-Israel boycotts. Germany can take the lead in stemming this kind of funding."
The conference, the Deutscher Israelkongress, was also attended by Iraqi beauty queen Sarah Idan, who has been widely criticized in the Arab world for her pro-Israel views and who was forced to flee Iraq because she and her family faced death threats after she had posed for a photo with Israeli Miss Universe contestant Adar Gandelsman during a pageant in 2017.
Idan became a social activist and has even visited Israel.
