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| Avigdor Lieberman Points Out The Obvious, Is Not Appreciated | ||
| 2010-10-02 | ||
| 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."
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." | ||
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