Lieberman being pushed aside
In a Monday post, I passed on something I had seen here that said that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman would be representing Israel at the UN General Assembly later this month. Laura Rozen reports that it's not so. Lieberman is returning to the scene: A reader forwards an invitation to a Rosh Hashanah reception for the foreign minister with Ambassador Michael Oren next Monday, September 13.I'm kind of surprised that Lieberman is putting up with being shunted aside like this (we Israelis can only wish that the far less competent Amir Peretz had acted similarly in 2006). I wonder what the tradeoff is. Hmmm.
His most recent push is to block any slowdown in Israeli settlements on disputed land, and his presence here won't make talks simpler. Though perhaps it's no coincidence that his international travel coincides with a high-profile meeting with Hillary Clinton in Jerusalem.
And an Israeli official says Lieberman won't be representing Israel at the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
By the way, in a later Tweet, Politico's Ben Smith reports that Lieberman will be speaking at the UN General Assembly on September 27.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:08 AM
1 Comments:
carl,
k'sivah, v'chasima tovah
you and your entire family should only know from good this coming year
and may hakodesh baruch hu strike down all the enemies of klal yisrael
may this be the last year of a rosh hashana in galus
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