Tomorrow Israel's new government will be officially sworn in. The new ruling coalition consists mostly of war mongers, racists and right wing extremists.
Particularly repugnant is the racist Arab hating new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. At one time or another he has argued in favor of Israel bombing nearly every neighboring country including Egypt (Israel has a peace deal with Egypt). He wants to expand Jewish only colonies in the West Bank (He lives in one of these Jewish only colonies in the West Bank) and wants to level all Gaza's infrastructure and commercial centers. He supports taking away citizenship of Arab Israelis and transferring them to the West Bank and Gaza.
Avigdor Lieberman - branded Arab-hating racist - set to be Israeli foreign minister - Times Online
The rise of Lieberman means it’s time to withdraw aid and blockade Israel
Now its really going to hit the fan...
Binyamin Netanyahu ready to take charge of new Israeli government
After weeks of late-night negotiations, power-broking and patronage politics, the new Israeli government will be sworn in today, with Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the rightwing Likud party, presiding over a motley coalition of the left, the ultra-orthodox and the secular extreme right.
The new government, which will have 69 of 120 seats in the Israeli Knesset, marks Netanyahu's return to the prime minister's office after his premiership of the late 1990s. Avigdor Lieberman, of the extreme right Israel Our Home party, has been appointed foreign minister, while Ehud Barak, leader of the electorally diminished Labour party, will keep his role as defence minister....
...critics fear the new coalition, dominated by the hard right, could have dire consequences for the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.
"Netanyahu doesn't believe in the feasibility of a two-state solution and thinks permanent status solutions are a waste of time," said Shlomo Brom, senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies....
...Netanyahu and Lieberman are reported to have struck a deal last week to build 3,000 new settlements around East Jerusalem...
Binyamin Netanyahu ready to take charge of new Israeli government | World news | The Guardian
Particularly repugnant is the racist Arab hating new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. At one time or another he has argued in favor of Israel bombing nearly every neighboring country including Egypt (Israel has a peace deal with Egypt). He wants to expand Jewish only colonies in the West Bank (He lives in one of these Jewish only colonies in the West Bank) and wants to level all Gaza's infrastructure and commercial centers. He supports taking away citizenship of Arab Israelis and transferring them to the West Bank and Gaza.
Avigdor Lieberman - branded Arab-hating racist - set to be Israeli foreign minister - Times Online
The rise of Lieberman means it’s time to withdraw aid and blockade Israel
Now its really going to hit the fan...