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Avigdor Lieberman Points Out The Obvious, Is Not Appreciated
Not surprisingly, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman's speech to the UN General Assembly this week drew condemnations, with Palestinian delegates walking out on the speech.

Israel's left-wing daily Haaretz ran an article claiming U.S. Jews were "outraged."
We were? I guess I missed that.
There might have been one or two. Perhaps Rahm was upset.
In Israel, among prominent commentators denouncing the speech was Ron Ben-Yishai in Yediot Aharonot, the country's largest daily.

Ministers from the left-of-center Labor Party -- part of Netanyahu's coalition -- also skewered the speech.

What did Lieberman actually say? A perusal of the short address reveals nothing morally or intellectually objectionable.

"More than ninety percent of the wars and war victims of the [region] since the Second World War did not result from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and are in no way connected to Israel, stemming rather, from conflicts involving Muslims or conflicts between Arab states. The Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf war, the wars between North and South Yemen, the Hamma atrocities in Syria, and the wars in Algeria and Lebanon, are just a few examples of a list that goes on and on."

Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-10-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=306839