Liberman urges ‘regional agreement’ with moderate Arabs
Liberman urges ‘regional agreement’ with moderate Arabs
Current Mideast situation makes separate peace deal with Palestinians impossible, foreign minister tells John Kerry
By Raphael Ahren June 26, 2014, 4:06 pm
via Liberman urges ‘regional agreement’ with moderate Arabs | The Times of Israel.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called on Thursday for a “new political structure in the Middle East” that would entail a coalition of Israel and the moderate Arab states uniting to face the common threat of Islamist extremism.
Current circumstances in the Middle East make a separate peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians impossible, Liberman told US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting in Paris. Rather, “we must reach an overall regional agreement,” Liberman said. “Israel’s longstanding conflict is not only with the Palestinians but with the Arab world of which the Palestinians are a part. Therefore, we must reach an agreement that will include the moderate Arab states, the Palestinians and the Israeli Arabs.”
This is the first time that “a strategic consensus of interests has been created between the moderate elements in the Arab world and Israel,” the foreign minister said, “as both must contend with the Iranian threats, worldwide jihad and al-Qaeda, as well as the overflow of the conflict in Syria and Iraq to neighboring states.”
The Arab Peace Initiative, launched in 2002 by Saudi Arabia and since adopted by the entire Arab and Muslim world, offers “full diplomatic and normal relations” with Israel in exchange for a “comprehensive peace agreement” with the Palestinians. Liberman is now trying to turn this offer around: first a comprehensive agreement with the wider Arab world, followed by peace deal with the Palestinians later on.
The conditions prevailing in the region today have created the basis for the “creation of a new political structure in the Middle East,” Liberman said, according to a statement released by his office. Any kind of peace agreement must “include the Arab states and Israeli Arabs,” he insisted, referring to his controversial plan to redraw Israel’s borders in order to annex Israeli settlements and leave major Arab population centers on the Palestinian side of the border.
The Israeli minister also spoke about the current security situation in Iraq. The country is “dissolving before our eyes,” he said, adding that the establishment of an independent Kurdish state is “probably inevitable.” The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other extremists factions will try to undermine the stability of the entire Gulf area, Liberman said, “and Israel can provide support and assistance to the moderate Arab states against the extremists of the Arab world.”
He also thanked Kerry for Washington’s “firm position” regarding the gravity of the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers earlier this month, and told him that the teens’ parents wished to meet with him.
In Paris, Liberman was also set to meet with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius.
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WarSclerotic 
June 26, 2014 at 3:40 PM
Steve do you remember my change of the status quo comment in an other topic ?
June 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM
Yep…
” Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep
under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery
acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.”
The Tempest Act 2, scene 2, 33–41
June 26, 2014 at 8:09 PM
Aha William Shakespeare, honestly i had to look it up, i,am not familiar whit his work.
June 26, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Sound familiar to current happenings?
“Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts … genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation … the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality …though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]”
― Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm
“All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”
― Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm
“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous…”
― Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm
“We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster.”
― Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm
“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong–these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”
Winston Churchill —House of Commons, 2 May 1935
June 26, 2014 at 8:38 PM
Change , yes we can !
O what a lovely world !
June 26, 2014 at 8:55 PM
But i still can not find a definition of a moderate mo slime, a light
version as to speak, like Saudi , Qatar or Iran !
Or better like the praised version from Indonesia or Malaysia .
Some people call me a cynic !
June 26, 2014 at 9:49 PM
Lets make it simple.
Arabs are per definition not our enemy, mo slimes are per definition our enemy !
You do not believe me, believe them, read the koraan and the ahadith !