Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumBenjamin Netanyahu's Israel Coalition Partner Rules Out Peace With Palestinians
By Reuters
Published February 09, 2013.
JERUSALEM Israel has no chance of signing a permanent peace accord with the Palestinians and should instead seek a long-term interim deal, the most powerful political partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
The remarks by Avigdor Lieberman, an ultranationalist whose joint party list with Netanyahu narrowly won a Jan. 22 election while centrist challengers made surprise gains, seemed designed to dampen expectations at home and abroad of fresh peacemaking.
A spring visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by U.S. President Barack Obama, announced this week, has stirred speculation that foreign pressure for a diplomatic breakthrough could build - though Washington played down that possibility.
In a television interview, ex-foreign minister Lieberman linked the more than two-year-old impasse to pan-Arab political upheaval that has boosted Islamists hostile to the Jewish state.
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)the West Bank?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)before Obama arrives.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)In fact, he will most likely not be in the cabinet at all due to the charges he is facing.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)JERUSALEM February 9, 2013 (AP)
A powerful partner of Israel's prime minister has called peace with the Palestinians "impossible," saying the conflict between them and Israel can only be "managed."
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Lieberman resigned as foreign minister two months ago after he was indicted for breach of trust in a fraud and money-laundering case. He remains a powerful lawmaker and Netanyahu's top political ally.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/netanyahu-ally-peace-palestinians-impossible-18450897
But he is not currently in the cabinet - and may end up in jail.
By the way, I noticed you changed your avatar. Have you soured on Hillary?
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)although his party ran on the same joint list, the two (Likud and Yisrael Beteinu) are still separate parties. Therefore they are two parties in coalition, and you are wrong.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Slippery lil man.