From the attempted delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip to the call for Israel to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the number of things officials have warned against on the grounds of “hindering peace talks” has been staggering. This did not appear to expend to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s office, however, as he delivered a speech at the United Nations calling for the mass expulsion of Arabs from Israel.
“A final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians has to be based on a program of exchange of territory and populations,” Lieberman told the General Assembly. Once a vigorous opponent of the peace talks, Lieberman has since changed his position to one of making the entire peace process an excuse for expelling large portions of Israel’s Arab population abroad, one of his political party’s core principles.
But while the most immediate concern is what effect this demand may have on the already mortally wounded peace process, it also underscores the almost ridiculous level of animosity growing between Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose office was quick to point out that the FM didn’t coordinate the speech with him.
The reality is that in recent months Lieberman, as Israel’s top diplomat, has been conducting an independent foreign policy at completely cross purposes to the Netanyahu government’s. It is this, more than anything else, that is sparking confusion about where this far-right government stands, as lip-service to peace agreements inevitably gives way to screeds about cleansing the nation of certain “disloyal” ethnicities. While the peace process may be dead, or close to it, the fight between Netanyahu and Lieberman seems destined to continue into the forseeable future.
Two points. One, no government can function with two foreign policies. This charade is designed to allow Netanyahu to don a mantle of respectability while pursuing slow motion expulsion via “settlements,” while Lieberman sells the policy to Israelis and the diaspora’s neocons There is a single coordinated policy. The two faces presentation is political theater.
Two, the acceptance of expulsion as a legitimate means works both ways. Lieberman is justifying a program of a genocide of the Jews living in Palestine/Israel. What is sauce ior the goose is sauce for the gander. In geopolitics and real ethics the Chosen People exception from the rules crap does not cut it. In the end Zionists will discover that living by the sword entails dying by it.
If it were the Jews being subjugated and oppressed there would be an outcry from the rest of the world just as there should be. When the Israeli's commit atrocities the MSM tries to ignore them. Palestine is not the US frontier which was occupied by savages ( the term describing the indegenous peoples in the Declaration of Independence) ). The indigenous people in the Palestine mandate had a civilization going back at least 2 thousand years,
I think you are mistaken about Lieberman. I think you are mistaken if you believe that he has a shred of decency. This is, after all, the man who suggested destroying the Aswan dam with a nuclear bomb if the Egyptians did not toe the line more carefully. No <person> with a shred of decency would want such horrors- agreed.
But does this man in particular possess a shred of decency? He's repeatedly and plainly described all kinds of horrors he'd like to visit on the Arabs.
And as a point of historical fact, didn't fascist Germany attempt "transfer" first, before it turned out, to the eternal damnation of the West, that no one would take the six million? Wasn't transfer the "first" solution?
!When devoid of an argument, bellow holocaust. Sorry, the past in Europe justifies nothing today in the Middle East.
But what about yids without a shred of decency? Prime example Avigdot Lieberman, a convicted child molester. He entered a guilty plea to battering a child, a Jewish child of twelve, to the point of requiring hospital care. He paid a fine in a plea deal and expenses. That crime sets the tone of his politics.
The point was that his policy of expulsion works both ways. Btw, expulsion is genocide under the UN treaty. Mass murders are not required.
As to the alleged transfer of Arab countries of Jews to Israel, you might get your facts straight. Zionists carried of a program of terrorizing Jews living in Arabs lands in order to force them to settle in Israel. Example, Operation Babylon in Iraq. For years many Arab governments had programs to encourage the return on their nationals, most persistently, Morocco.
Rest assured I regret WWII and all its victims, direct and indirect, without distinction as to nationality, ideology or religion.
You are typical of the racism inherent in Zionism. Has anyone ever heard a Zionism regret, much less apologize for, the slaughter of 25 to 60 million Christians in the USSR by Jewish dominated and guided Communism? Remember the timeline and the propaganda that the Nazis used to legitimate their policy – no holodomor, no holocaust; no Kagonovich, no Eichmann.
I don,t believe that Lieberman can deliver such an speach without americans. The policy is to demand extremely non sense things then give a peace from a bread to satify them.
Last weak Bill Clington has already accused Russian Jews for their resistance to peace but for me biggest traitor is america as they are responsible for all miss deads by Israel, even they pardon their own deaths in Israel whereas in other countries they attack.
Actually Obama is right America is canzer for the world peace.
Israel will be protect and financed by america till one day they are so biast to challenge america.
and there will not be one peep out of the US congress or the US media condemning this moron…
Bibi claims the speech was not cleared with him but he also did not say bibi objected to the content. It is amazing that Israel continue to allow a mad man make honest statements on the true nation of the nation. Why we provide billions and billions can only be answered with AIPAC holding blackmail on our elected officials. How any elected official could honest face a guy out of work in the USA and state he is for giving $98,000,000 aircraft to a rich nation which wants to expel 30 percent of its citizens.
It looks more and more how Animal Farm was correct. All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
Lieberman is the "Kinsley gaffe" in Israel politics. Except what he says is not an accident. The Israelis are not seriously interested in a two-state solution with the Palestinians. And as long as the US continues to back them up and look the other way, Israel will continue to piss on anyone's shoes. It's high time the US hung them out to dry and on their own answer for their actions.
Stop the 2 state solution "peace talks" They are going nowhere. Hamas should immediately start agitating for one state shared by both Jews and Arabs. The world opinion will back Hamas. it will be hard even for the USG to argue against giving equal rights to Arabs..
At least with Lieberman you get the bare truth ( of a reality that has been happening for the past 100 years) unlike the BS that has been spouted from Israeli governments for the past 60 plus years. Not that this makes it any more acceptable but at least the US public can no longer claim ignorance that the emperor has no clothes. What indeed Israel would like is for the Palestinians to disappear altogether to accommodate it's plans of lebensraum so evident in the West Bank today and which not altogether looks much like the US belief of Manifest Destiny/US imperialism
The only language that Israel ever will understand is a international boycotts of the country.., unless US is afraid that Israel will bomb US and therefore US is not doing anything about such apartheid regime..
Is this Lieberman connected somehow to the one of that senator representing Idaho.., isn’t he a relative to that MP….?
So, am I an anti-semite if I point out that this would constitute Ethnic Cleansing?
In other words, he's advocating ethnic cleansing, with no world outcry. The Palestinians could just as easily say all the Jews should be relocated to Europe. Imagine the outcry.
I am surprised that delegates of the Arab countries did not stage a walk out similar as the previous walk out of western countries when Ahmadinejad took the chair.
Of course for Americans that can read the players without a scorecard, the "first" pick gave away the game.. Let's face it. a great preponderance of America's recent [devastating] problems are tied to the strife in the ME… However it was that the 911 putsch went down, the topic was Israel!!!. Whether it was Bin Laden with his animus for Israeli treatment of the Palestinians plus encroachment of Muslim holy places. theft of land…and/or the Project for the new American Century with its "A New Pearl Harbor" is what's required to galvanize American bellicosity and build-up…… There is no denial that Israeli conduct provided the muscle behind the attacks and ALSO the wars we are now fighting that followed. It was the usual suspects who, as the Downing Street memo exposed, did everything in their power to foment these wars that have killed over a million and awoken the sleeping GIANT, Islam.. I,4OO,OOO,OOO souls!! America is at war in five of these Muslim places now and her No.1 Welfare Queen is still not happy, SHE WANTS MORE and MORE! Besides the billions she bleeds from the American Taxpayers which she uses to spy on her host, and skew her host's elections, she wants to involve her host in another war, one with potential Russian thermonuclear consequences, with Iran… Is my tone too shrill??? Do I make accusations that are untrue..?? Do I blame outside forces for the corrupt American political system which allows American's taxpayer's money given as aid to return to America to influence her elections and influence the politics of even more money for those who "support" more and more "aid"..?? Lieberman and his expulsion plans, combined with the softcore Warsarw Ghetto style genocide in Gaza is one more alarm bell among so many others….. Eventually the host becomes aware….. the question is, before or after the mortal tipping point….