The right-wing factions in the Knesset called last night for a harsh response to the Qassam rocket attack on Sderot that killed Fa'ina Slutzker on Wednesday.

The chairman of the National Religious Party-National Union, MK Uri Ariel, said on Wednesday that if Israel did not embark on a "Defensive Shield 2," it would end up with "Lebanon War 3."

His fellow faction member MK Arieh Eldad said Israel's concept of security had expressed itself in disengagement and had collapsed. He also said the government had failed to protect the citizens of the North and could not manage to protect the South either.

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MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) said that instead of "flexing his muscles with muscle man Schwarzenegger," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to work out a diplomatic solution, since the Qassam fire would probably not soon stop.

MK Shai Hermesh (Kadima), who lives in the western Negev Kibbutz Kfar Aza, said that "running after the Qassams in Beit Hanun is like the Dutch boy putting his finger in the dike. International pressure must be brought to bear on the Egyptian government to meet its obligations to effectively supervise the border crossings from Sinai to Gaza."