Lieberman urges diplomats: Show world Israel has done enough

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Last update - 19:37 27/12/2009


Lieberman urges diplomats: Show world Israel has done enough for peace

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent


Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday urged Israeli diplomats to show the world that Israel has "done enough" in its efforts to try to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Lieberman told the more than 100 diplomats gathered at his office not to expect the Palestinians to sign a peace agreement with Israel in the next 10 years.


I put the ideology and the politics side by side and try to estimate them in an objective way," he said. "What is the chance for any sort of permanent agreement? We must remember that it all depends on them."

"I've reached the conclusion that even if we do retreat to the 1967 borders, it won't bring an end to the conflict," he declared. "Even if we retreat to the last centimeter, nothing will change."

Lieberman also said that the international community was growing less concerned with the Middle East conflict and urged the envoys to "broadcast to the world that we have done enough."

"From the moment this government was established, we said we were prepared for negotiations with the Palestinians," he said. "We have gone above and beyond; even the decision to freeze settlement construction was dramatic, not simple, yet we did it.

"The proof in the pudding is now up to the other side," said Lieberman. "We must get the world used to the fact that they are no wonder cures, just long-term interim arrangements that will last a decade or two. Until then, we won't reach an agreement."

Lieberman: Syria wants to talk? Not with Turkey as mediator

In his address to the diplomats, Lieberman also declared that Turkey had no place in mediating peace talks between Israel and Syria, despite "hints" to the contrary made by his government colleagues.

Lieberman lambasted Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Labor chairman and high-ranking ministers, who accused of "proposing and hinting that there is place for Turkish mediation."

"Stop creating illusions and disseminating things that have no connection to reality," Lieberman warned, in an address to more than 100 Israeli diplomats gathered at the foreign ministry. "If you think that after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogans comments about Israel we would agree to Turkish mediation, even if it meant smiles and visit, forget about it."

"So long as I am foreign minister and Yisrael Beiteinu is in the government, there will be no Turkish mediation," Lieberman vowed. "The Syrians want to talk? Then direct negotiations, only."

During Ehud Olmert's tenure as prime minister, Turkey mediated five rounds of talks between Israeli and Syrian officials. Toward the end of Olmert's term the two sides were on the verge of resuming direct negotiations.

At the last meeting between Olmert and Erdogan, the Turkish leader called Syrian President Bashar Assad and relayed messages to and from Olmert. But after Operation Cast Lead earlier this year and the freeze in negotiations with Syria, Erdogan said Olmert had stabbed him in the back

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137981.html

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Lieberman epitomizes the Talmudic Jew:
Deceptive, cunning, and always searching for a way to promote endless war.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Lieberman epitomizes the Talmudic Jew:
Deceptive, cunning, and always searching for a way to promote endless war.

Indeed, a corrupter and a liar. What good is he?