Israeli FM Slams Peace Talks, Insists Peace ‘Unattainable’ for Generations
Talking Peace Only Harms Israel, Lieberman Insists
Hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has made it clear time and again that he opposes on general principle the idea of a peace settlement with the Palestinians, today again lashed out at the talks.
“Signing a comprehensive peace agreement is an unattainable goal – not next year and not in the next generation,” Lieberman insisted in comments given at a Yisrael Beiteinu event. He added that the settlement freeze had been used to “political advantage” by the Palestinians and must not be allowed to continue.
Lieberman has long opposed the peace talks, insisting that they “hurt Israel” and that any actual deals are impossible. He has advocated instead the “Cyprus model,” which he describes as a plan of mass population transfer that would end in some sort of informal calm.
Lieberman’s comments, as the head of Israel’s diplomatic corps, of course makes the already struggling peace talks even more difficult. Though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has largely tried to conduct an independent foreign policy while leaving Lieberman to fume and occasionally lash out publicly, his party’s opposition to the peace deal (as well as the similar positions of other coalition partners) will make it next to impossible for Netanyahu to even continue the talks past the next few weeks, let alone reach any sort of agreement on Palestinian statehood.
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Valerianus
September 5th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
The Zionists have long since mastered the art of self-imploding any possibility of peace with the Palestinians. Lieberman's eruptions are all part of the plan, and the fact that he could be counted on to exert his effective veto in this way was the only reason Netanyahoo made such a show of going to FedGovland and participating in the dog and pony show.
Robert
September 5th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
As long as the split is made on a per capita basis, including Palestinian refugees in other countries waiting to return home and excluding Israeli religious immigrants from say the date of the Oslo accords. So combine the land area of Jewish Palestine and Muslim Palestine, and then divide it with a continuous border, with Jerusalem shared, and land distributed upon an equal per person per square metre basis, with coastline similarly divided. Failure to agree by either side results in economic sanctions until the do agree, done and finished.
keithISGREAT
September 5th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Liberman says all non-jews will be expelled to Cyprus, and in a week Hilary Clinton will go on CNN or MSNBC or Fox news or any other mainstream news outlet and say that they should go to cyprus. That's how it works. It wont change until the American people have a revolution.
James
September 5th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Do you really think the rest of the world will wait for the Americans to have a revolution? When will that revolution happen? Will Americans easily give up thier lady gagas, paris hiltons, reality shows?
I believe there always will be price to pay for injustice, specially one on a mass scale like Palestine. The only way the Americans will wake up for a revolution is when they start paying for thier dirty deeds.
Dr.KMM
September 6th, 2010 at 2:05 am
It is all about Justice. The wright people have to their ancestral property.You cannot take property away from people and expect that they will forget and forgive.It will never happen.Not in Israel and not in Cyprus. Interestingly the European Court of Justice came up with a ruling recently,that the properties of the Greek people in the Fannar area in Istabul belong to the original owners who were forced by the Turkish state to leave in 1955.
Do what is the correct and just and I think lots of problems can be solved.
Zia_Ahad
September 6th, 2010 at 2:37 am
Lieberman is a true blue zionist – racist to the core, and unfit for any civilized dialog. But, wait, that's what qualifies him to be on the Israeli cabinet. Now, won't Hillary applaud his restraint?
peacenik
September 6th, 2010 at 5:41 am
One way is for a one state solution with one person one vote. In the alternative give all of pre 1967 west bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt and Jerusalem as an international city..
Bill
September 6th, 2010 at 6:50 am
Lieberman is probably correct in his predictions…as long as the US props up the state of Israel. If US support ever stopped, truly stopped, the fiction of an Israeli state would be gone in a matter of months if not weeks.
That country is not a viable state.
richard vajs
September 6th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Israel makes no sense. It hates all of its neighbors, it has no harmony with them and never will. The Zionist Jews are like birds of the air who think that if they can defeat all of the fish, they can make themselves a home in the river
MoT
September 6th, 2010 at 10:25 am
These sort of "multi generational" arguments are so incredibly false they should make ones head spin. If he were to even take his own advice then the state of Israel would never have popped onto the scene in 1948. Instead we'd have a dragged out "process" that would lead us to the present where Israel, at least what we know it to be now, doesn't exist. And would Lieberman say this would be agreeable? Of course not. It's another stalling tactic. A lie from a master liar.
paulBass
September 6th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
maybe before the usa decided to buy one side the worlds strongest army(per capita)
Wildey
September 6th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
When the head Rabbi in Israel calls for the annihilation of the Palestinians, where's there room for peace?