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Calling Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney: Will you meet Avigdor Lieberman?

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to visit the United States next week. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has decided to leave town in honor of the occasion, and no one else in the Obama administration is willing to meet Lieberman. The word on the street is that the Obama administration, which was willing to meet with Ahmadinejad and Assad without preconditions, is unwilling to meet with the foreign minister of its erstwhile ally, and has effectively declared him persona non grata, saying that no one wants to be photographed with him or with what he represents.

Here's a report from Israel's Channel 2 news, which was aired on Monday night. The report is in Hebrew, so I apologize in advance to the Hebrew-impaired. In the report that I summarized above, Channel 2 also says that American spokespeople are treating Lieberman as if he's a representative of a terror organization, and suggests that Prime Minister Netanyahu ought to intervene because this is a breach of protocol.

Let's go to the videotape.



I wonder how many of the Republican candidates for President would be willing to meet with Lieberman and attack the Obama administration for the manner in which it is treating him. I know that some of you who read this blog (and some people who follow me on Twitter) are connected to various Republican campaigns. Anyone willing to make the suggestion?

Labels: Avigdor Lieberman, Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, Hillary Clinton

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:24 PM