Lieberman to Solana: Goldstone report puts peace talks at risk

Realist In 2009 alone Hundreds of roadblocks have been lifted, Go and see Ramallah, same thing is now happening in Nablus what was regarded not so long ago by Israel as the capital of terrorism, in 2009 is now starting to look like a Palestinian commercial and trade center, people are saying their sales in 2009 have grew by 90%! Once people in WB could wait for two hours in the Havara crossing, today it takes them approximately 5 minutes Now that the roadblocks in Nablus have been lifted! Every Saturday 50 Busses Plus some 400 cars enter Nablus, bringing with them something like 4000 Arab Israelis who do their shopping there, or just go there to have a good time, this gets into the Arab Palestinian economy an extra 2 million NIS every Saturday! Seems those who you blindly despise are doing more for the benefit of the Arab Palestinians then any other government did (starting in 1987) and are taking grate security risks in doing it! Why don`t you jump to Ramallah and see, instead of being a know it all!

Avigdor Lieberman is the same kind of fool who dragged Germany into disaster seventy years ago. Morally, ideologically, and fundamentally indistinguishable from the rabid right-wing racists who doomed tens of millions to death in WW II.

Avi your boss is reported (in this paper) to be on his knees begging the terrorist abb'ass to dictate to ISRAEL again.....DK

Lets stop pretending Pals dont want peace Israel cant do peace Abbas is finished Hamas are seen as heroes hahahaha The end No hope Pals

dictated by the automatic majority marshalled by the Arabs. They just proved yet again by ignoring the minimal criticism of Hamas that they have no place in any peace process.

what Lieberman really wants to say to the West: Please don't spoil our incursions against the Palestinian people; since ethnic cleansing of the Gazan's has become Israel's privelege and reward for being G-d's "chosen (ha ha) people."

Imagine anything that Lieberman could say that would have any positive value at all. He might as well recite limericks to Solana. They'll be more entertaining, and of equal value practically.

It simply sounds ridicilous from Lieberman's mouth. Goldstone's integrity and past track record is simply amazing (and Jews should be proud of that) while Lieberman is a sad political mishap - the Haider of the Middle East.

... he is causing Israel so much harm and embarrassment... ... is repatriatian to Moldavia an option?... with a handsome financial award from Israel for past services rendered...

There is nothing to risk. Netanyahu and Lieberman have made it very clear there will be no agreement with the Palestinian, no halt to settlement expansion and no peace. What astounds is that Lieberman clearly things everyone in the world is and idiot.

The Joke is over and no body is laughing is it something wrong with the comedian or just or way of telling it or people giving up on broken record Citizen arrest now catch them if you can

Realist In 2009 alone Hundreds of roadblocks have been lifted, Go and see Ramallah, same thing is now happening in Nablus what was regarded not so long ago by Israel as the capital of terrorism, in 2009 is now starting to look like a Palestinian commercial and trade center, people are saying their sales in 2009 have grew by 90%! Once people in WB could wait for two hours in the Havara crossing, today it takes them approximately 5 minutes Now that the roadblocks in Nablus have been lifted! Every Saturday 50 Busses Plus some 400 cars enter Nablus, bringing with them something like 4000 Arab Israelis who do their shopping there, or just go there to have a good time, this gets into the Arab Palestinian economy an extra 2 million NIS every Saturday! Seems those who you blindly despise are doing more for the benefit of the Arab Palestinians then any other government did (starting in 1987) and are taking grate security risks in doing it! Why don`t you jump to Ramallah and see, instead of being a know it all!

If Israel has not committed any war crimes, if the IDF has a perfectly good conscience, then what do you have to fear? The more rage you demonstrate fighting the report, the more guilty you appear. Make an inquiry into the charges and prove to the international community that they are wrong. This is the only way you will convince the world. Not by lobbying against Golstone.

Well said Vladek. Israel however has no reasonable explanation. Israel made a big mistake with "Cast Lead" (choice of name a PR disaster) and are now wriggling on the hook of legitimate recrimination. Israel has lost the plot and is suffering from a lack of intelligent leadership. Biblical inheritence fiction must be put aside in favour of reality!The government of Israel however is hostage to the religious and political mafia who put them in power!!

Lieberman is an outspoken opponent of the peace process and he blames others to put it at risk?! Q: Are there any Israelis left that still believe what their FM babbles?

Leiberman is just looking for someone to blame for Israel's failures and crimes. To start with Goldstone did not come to the region to act as a politician nor as as a peace envoy. He was tasked by a respectable UN body with carrying out an investigation into Israel's war against Gaza. The fact is Israel knew rightly what he was going to find out and that is exactly why they tried to stop him first and when they failed refused to cooperate with his investigation. Of course these Israeli tactics are not new and they successfully used them when the UN tried to investigate its war crimes in Jenin and in Lebanon. Fortunately they were not able to stop the investigation this time. Goldstone simply reported what he discovered and this time even Israel's staunchest friends could not protect it. They just were not be able turn a blind eye to the crimes After all these crimes were watched live by millions of people around as the world. So don't go blaming Goldstone instead try the criminals.

Read the article again and you will see what I mean. You will not be a Realist but you will get a clue.

elect leaders that have integrity instead of stonewalling and trying to bully everybody to ingnore their transgressions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20bernstein.html?_r=1

Reading the foreign minister's quote, it's so obvious. Why does Israel send a delagation to Wash DC for negociations, last week? Lieberman has to learn how to "play" with other countries; many countries and their foreign ministers are coming down on him.

The diametric opposite is true: Pressing Israel to full responsibility for not only its Gaza war crimes, but more importantly, violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits territorial expansion by military means in general and by settlement in particular, is the ONLY solution to the peace proccess which Israel has evaded and violated since 1967.

Goldstone's remarks clearly indicate that his actions are entirely politically motivated, further substantiating that his report is by no means fair or impartial. As much as I dislike Netanyahu and Barak, they are right to repudiate the report in its entirety. It's simply an internationally sanctioned in-road for further anti-Semitism.

Mr Solana is permitted to be confused by this statement. Mr Lieberman was reported by Ha'aretz, as well as newspapers in Switzerland, quite recently as warning that any peace in the near future was impossible.So, why would he now be worried about jeopardizing talks he believes will go nowhere?

Goldstone desrves a million times more credit. The real phrase is: The Goldstone report endangers peace because.... Up to now no reasonable because. The Goldstone reprot is unbalanced because ... Up to now no reasonable becuse.

If Israel conducted a fair and impartial investigation of the Gaza invasion, its findings could have been included in the Goldstone Report. If Israel had cooperated with Goldstone in the research and preparation of the report, perhaps the report would not have been seen as so offensive to Israel. If Israel had a reasonable explanation for everything captured on video and displayed on YouTube, the world would not be offended by Israel's actions. If there is a failure in initiating peace talks, the blame needs to be placed at the feet of Lieberman, Netanyahu and Barak. Freedom of information on the internet has revealed the true barriers to just peace.

so now what? leiberman is a loser

How can Goldstone's war crime report put on risk what Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak have shelved already?!