Time to go, Lieberman

[oberliner]

It appears that the time has come to tell Minister Lieberman, with all due respect and politeness, please go. Go away. You can go working for your daughter, who overnight magically became a financial whiz. Go to your home at the settlement of Nokdim to count the sheep of your Palestinian neighbors. Go to Minsk, the capital of the Belarusian dictatorship; your favorite state in Europe. Become newly religious, or newly secular, travel the world, free as a bird. Just go.

It’s too early to determine whether Lieberman is criminally at fault in respect to the affair attributed to him now. Like any other person under interrogation, he is innocent until proven guilty. Yet he is not innocent when it comes to shame: It is doubtful whether an Israeli government ever included a minister who caused the State such great embarrassment internationally and such great shame domestically.

Lieberman is guilty of obstruction: He has obstructed and is still obstructing the efforts to improve Israel’s status in the world. Lieberman is also guilty of breach of trust: During his year in the post of foreign minister he breached the trust of the citizens of his country.

If the reports published Tuesday are accurate, while serving as our envoy in Belarus, Lieberman’s protégé Ze’ev Ben-Ariyeh received a sealed envelope from the Israel Police containing classified investigation details. He was supposed to hand the envelope over as is to Belarusian authorities. Instead, he opened it and handed over its contents to Lieberman, who at the time was a Knesset member (and denies that he read the document.)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3857450,00.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. More than time for the thug to go!

[IndianaGreen]

2. Brother Avigdor is probably the most straightforward member of the Likud government

I don't know why so many of you on the status-quo side think Lieberman is so bad when he is such an exemplary spokesperson for what passes for Zionism nowadays.

BTW, let's stop kidding ourselves. The 2-state solution is no longer feasible or practical. The only remaining question is the shape and nature of the 1-state solution that will rise from the ashes of the misnamed peace process.

[oberliner]

3. Who is on the status quo side?

I have not read any posts in support of the status quo.