(Israel SA Minister) Lieberman: Iran approval for UN inspection of reactors is a ruse

Source: Haaretz

Last update - 17:12 14/07/2007
Lieberman: Iran approval for UN inspection of reactors is a ruse

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies

Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman warned Saturday that Iran's announcement it would allow UN officials to inspect its nuclear reactors is a diversionary tactic.

The rightwing Yisrael Beiteinu party head said the Islamic Republic's permission for International Atomic Energy Agency members to return to the reactors after they had been banished is an attempt by Tehran to "buy time."

"The world must not fall into this trap and should continue to push for further sanctions against Iran," Lieberman said,

On Friday, the IAEA said its representatives will be allowed to return to inspect Iran's nuclear reactors. In a further sign of compromise on the part of the Islamic republic, the IAEA said that Tehran also had agreed to answer questions on past experiments that the international community fears could be linked to a weapons program.

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;shrug:

to the right of most mainstream Israeli politicians.

He's indulging in quite a bit of saber-rattling; but I don't think he has that much power, even in Israel, let alone abroad. He just likes to open his big mouth.

I am glad that Iran is letting the inspectors in. I hope and expect that the situation can be resolved peacefully - unless Bush and Cheney go completely mad again, which sadly is very possible.

here your pack, here is your rifle, go fix your problem.

What? You want us to take care of it for you?

probably his government will restrain him, however. Hope so! Anyone with sense knows that another war in the region will not benefit ANY country there.

Bush is interested in taking care of his *own* problems, and would be happy to use other countries as his pawns in the matter; and sadly I don't trust him further than I can throw him. He may blame other countries for his decisions, but we should not allow him to do so.

would tend to say otherwise, if Israel can't kick Hezbollah's ass there, how would they kick the ass of those whom they claim made hezbollah's success attainable?

Short of deploying the nukes we gave them, with all that nasty blow back consideration and stuff?

Much to Bush's disappointment, I'm sure.

I don't think there's *any* chance that Israel will use any nukes in the region. Apart from all other considerations, the nuclear fallout from bombing a nearby country would SERIOUSLY endanger Israel itself.

The same consideration IMO would prevent Iran from using nukes on Israel or anyone else in the region, even if they eventually get them.

Never mind Mutually Assured Destruction - this could be Self Assured Destruction.

My main fear concerning any nukes in the region is not so much that the leaders would use them; but that sooner or later terrorists could get hold of them.

But the main *immediate* worry is Bush et al inflaming the situation to their own purposes, and because they're nuts.

place where "terrorist" will gain control of nuclear weapons any time soon.

And I mean soon, as Musharef is teetering in control after his latest escapade.

If he looses the military that placed him in power he will be overthrown by a less than palatable leader with all the finances we have provided them still intact.

They obviously didn't spend them getting rid of the Talib's

to the fan club :hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBAasek8NR4
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well theyd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say or theyll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.(or somethin' else)
Wont you sign up your name, wed like to feel youre
Acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!

At night, when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

it seems normal to me.:evilgrin:

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to soften the image of fascists lunatics like Lieberman.

The Obscene Views of Avigdor Lieberman

"...The growth of extremist parties on the right in Europe is worrying to Israel, and justifiably so. The rising popularity of nationalists such as Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, Vadim Tudor in Romania, Anto Djapic in Croatia and Christophe Blocher in Switzerland is disconcerting to world Jewry, and so it should be. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has barred Marine Le Pen, a member of the European Parliament and deputy in her father's National Front party, from entering the country. What will we say if European Union countries announce that the deputy prime minister is an unwanted personality in Europe?

The silence of the leadership of mainstream Jewry in the world, in view of the legitimization of a person such as Lieberman, undermines the moral high ground they hold in the struggle against Israel-haters throughout the world. If a Jewish politician who aspires to transfer an Arab minority across the border can sit in an Israeli cabinet, why should an anti-Semite not sit in an Austrian government? Let's hear it for the Haiders..."

CounterPunch


Who is Avigdor Lieberman and why is he so controversial?

• Lieberman was born in Moldova in the Soviet Union. In 1978, at the age of 20, he immigrated to Israel and received automatic citizenship under Israel's Law of Return. He now lives in the illegal Nokdin settlement in the occupied West Bank. A nightclub bouncer turned politician



• served as Director General of the Likud Party from 1993 to 1996, and as Director General of the Prime Minister's office from 1996 to 1997. A staunch opponent of the peace process and of any territorial concessions to Palestinians, he resigned this post and left Likud in protest over then-Prime Minister Netanyahu's signing of the U.S.-brokered Wye River Memorandum.



• In 1998, Lieberman called for the flooding of Egypt by bombing the Aswan Dam in retaliation for Egyptian support for Yasser Arafat.



• In 1999, he founded the Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home) party and was first elected to Knesset.



• In 2001, as Minister of National Infrastructure, Lieberman proposed that the West Bank be divided into four cantons, with no central Palestinian government and no possibility for Palestinians to travel between the cantons.



• In 2002, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth quoted Lieberman in a Cabinet meeting saying that the Palestinians should be given an ultimatum that "At 8am we'll bomb all the commercial centers...at noon we'll bomb their gas stations...at two we'll bomb their banks..."



• In 2003, Haaretz reported that Lieberman called for thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel to be drowned in the Dead Sea and offered to provide the buses to take them there.



• In May 2004, Lieberman proposed a plan that called for the transfer of Israeli territory with Palestinian populations to the Palestinian Authority. Likewise, Israel would annex the major Jewish settlement blocs on the Palestinian West Bank. If applied, his plan would strip roughly one-third of Israel's Palestinian citizens of their citizenship. A "loyalty test" would be applied to those who desired to remain in Israel. Those committed to making Israel a state of all its citizens, including the Palestinian minority, would be stripped of voting rights. This plan to trade territory with the Palestinian Authority is a revision of Lieberman's earlier calls for the forcible transfer of Palestinian citizens of Israel from their land. Lieberman stated in April 2002 that there was "nothing undemocratic about transfer."



• Also in May 2004, he said that 90 percent of Israel's 1.2 million Palestinian citizens would "have to find a new Arab entity" in which to live beyond Israel's borders. "They have no place here. They can take their bundles and get lost," he said.



• In May 2006, Lieberman called for the killing of Arab members of Knesset who meet with members of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.



• Lieberman championed a recent bill adopted by Israel's Cabinet that raises the minimum a party must achieve to enter Knesset from 2 percent to 10 percent. This would eliminate parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel, whose combined strength has never reached 10 percent.

IMEU

Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs...for your consideration

masquerading as a "human"...

This isn't the first time Iran has indicated it intends to allow for inspections only to back down later.

In fact, it's not even the second time.