Lieberman: Mubarak can 'go to hell'; Peres, Olmert apologize

[oberliner]

President Shimon Peres issued an official apology to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, after right-wing MK Avigdor Lieberman said earlier that the Egyptian president could "go to hell."

During a special Knesset plenary session marking the seventh anniversary of the assassination of far-right minister Rehavam Ze'evi (Gandhi), the Yisrael Beiteinu chairman said that "Gandhi would have never approved of our self-effacement vis-a-vis the Egyptians. Time and time again our leaders go to Egypt to meet Mubarak, and he has never made a single official visit.

"Every self respecting leader would have conditioned such meetings on reciprocation. If he wants to talks to us, he should come here, and if he doesn't want to come, he can go to hell," Lieberman continued.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1032604.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Oh, THAT Lieberman.

I was really wondering...

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Yeah, it really didn't sound like him.

Although it's kind of fun to imagine Joementum saying it.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Me too; though I didn't think Joe would do QUITE that!

Avigdor Lieberman is a right pain - in a sense Israel's answer to LePen or Pat Buchanan. Every country seems to have them, unfortunately.