Israel presses the Armageddon Button
Moldovan born 48-year-old Avigdor Lieberman arrived in Israel in 1978. A skilful and forceful demagogue he now heads the Yisrael Beiteinu party (founded 1999 when Leiberman was elected as MK) - "Israel my home "- which is the mouthpiece of the million Jews who came to Israel after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Yisrael Beytenu won 11 seats (out of 120) in the March 2006 Knesset elections. They had a brief but unsubtle slogan: "Nyet, Nyet, Da": No, No, Yes as a guide for voting for Netanyahu, Olmert, and Liberman, respectively.
Israel's largest circulation paper Yediot Achronot ran a poll which was published on September 21, 2006, Lieberman came just behind Netanyahu to be the next Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert came in 5th.
Influential outside the Cabinet, and a champion of the "settlers" (like Livni) he has now been included as both vice Prime Minister and holds a key ministerial portfolio responsible for "strategic threats against Israel" - Iran and it's hokum nuclear programme. This is a direct result of the quiet dropping by Kadima of its main election pledge to withdraw from a number of Jewish settlements in the West Bank which has been violently opposed by the Russian arrivistes. Yisrael Beiteinu has repeatedly called for annexing parts of the West Bank and redrawing Israel’s borders in several places to exclude Israeli Arabs.
Haartez in an Editorial said ...""The choice of the most unrestrained and irresponsible man around for this job constitutes a strategic threat in its own right," .... this is the guy who was chief of staff to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , removed from Sharon's cabinet and who wanted to bomb the Aswan dam. In May this year he demanded the execution of Arab Members of the Knesset who met with Hamas officials.
Leiberman is said to be advised by secretive gay US Republican advisor Arthur J Finkelstein (who "married" his partner 2 years ago) who was instrumental in getting George Patakis elected against incumbent Mario Cuomo. Much of the finance for his victory was funded by Lauder who employs Patakis' wife on his staff as a "social ambassador". He is remebered for the remark to the Hebrew language newspaper Maariv in November 2004.." Bush's victory not only establishes the power of the American Christian Right in this candidacy, but in fact established its power to elect the next Republican president." He is said to be at work on the "Stop her now" political action committee to put a spoke in Hillary Clinton's Presidential ambitions.
E.U.’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, was in Tel Aviv yesterday and met Leiberman and is said to have pointed out the Israeli Government’s obligation to dismantle West Bank settler outposts under the U.S.-led “road map” peace plan.... Yeah whatever.
Minister of Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ophir Pines-Paz responded by saying that "a minister of strategic affairs is a joke. Lieberman is himself a strategic threat."
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Nin. You were evidently so upset about the mis - spelling Mr Finkelstein's name you missed the parenthetic quotation marks surrounding "married" .... allow me the view that such "marriages" are a legal conceit. I am not now, nor have I ever been a Christian, but on the definition of marriage, I think the Christian's have got it right.
In true Newsweek / Time journalistic style we used multiple adjectives. Finkelstein is secretive (apparently only one photograph circulates in the public doman of him and that is claimed by some who know him, not to be of him). He is gay - a fact which no-one disputes. He is a card carrying and fully paid up Republican , which anybody liberal minded person should be ashamed of.
Perhaps if there were were pictures available we could have used even more adjectives, short, tall, fat, thin, red haired, smartly dressed.
Just what is your problem with the word gay to describe a Republican advisor ? ... there are plenty of them.
Our spoiling chicker didn't used to have Finkelstein in ...but thanks to you, it now does.
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