US Envoy: Lieberman Met with Arafat Aide, Backed Full Withdrawal
by Baruch Gordon, Arutz Sheva, INN, Jan. 29, 2009
M.K. Avigdor Lieberman, Yisrael Beitenu party leader
In addition, Indyk asserts that Lieberman told his PA interlocutor, Muhammad Rachid, that he was prepared to accept the wide-ranging concessions which then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak had offered to Arafat at the 2000 Camp David Summit.
These included the division of Jerusalem, an Israeli withdrawal from over 95 percent of Judea and Samaria, and a dilution of Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.
The disclosures are contained in a memoir penned by Indyk, who served two stints as America’s envoy to Jerusalem during the Clinton administration. (Continue Reading this Article)
The more things change in Israel…. virtually every Right-wing politician in Israel has pursued the policies of the Left while in office. So don’t hold your breath waiting for a dramatic change in Israeli policy under a Likud government.
Comment by NormanF — January 29, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Right-wing parties reject Palestinian state
The Matot Arim foundation asked right-wing Knesset candidates to sign an oath rejecting Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.
The National Union, Jewish Home, Israel Our Home, and Shas all signed the oath.
Short of Meir Porush, the United Torah Judaism Party refused the oath. For the hypocrites, giveaway of the Promised Land is no transgression.
Netanyahu the phony refused the oath, as did most of his cohorts. Among the electable Likud candidates, only Moshe Ya’alon, Yuval Steinitz, Ze’ev Elkin, Ayoub Kara, Tzipi Hotovely, Yariv Levin and Danny Danon signed the pledge. On other hand, Netanyahu could not take the oath for the fear of grossly alienating Hussein Obama’s administration which already opposes his election and openly supports Ehud Barak.
Comment by yamit82 — January 29, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
bibi will do the bidding of the AG and the SC or he’s out. Never forget who runs Israel.
Comment by Charles Martel — January 29, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
The Left runs Israel. There’s a file on Bibi and if he doesn’t pursue the correct policies, he will be investigated, indicted and forced out of office. If someone like Bibi can’t stand up to them, there’s no hope of things ever changing in Israel. And short of a miracle, they won’t.
Comment by NormanF — January 29, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
That’s why a leader needs to scramble the deck with a proposal (like the one I have outlined on another thread) that is completely off the radar screen for the Israeli legal and intellectual elite, the vested interests, the political party machines, the NGOs, the media hacks like Friedman, the US president and the EU. It will take a year just to set up the committees to study it. It will also split the leftists currently running the show in both Israel and abroad. Most importantly, it will shift the onus for concessions and compromise away from Israel and onto the Arabs.
Comment by Charles Martel — January 29, 2009 @ 2:37 pm