T. Belman. This, of course, depends on the definition of a right winger. In my definition, a right winger is one who rejects appeasement and believes in Israel’s right to J&S. A right winger is also one who is against the creation of Palestine for either security or religious reasons.
Liberman’s guiding principal is less Arabs in Israel. That’s why he wants to give up eastern Jerusalem and “The Triangle” region southeast of Haifa. Together they contain 500,000 Arabs. I don’t know how Israeli citizenship can be taken from these Arabs legally.
Former MK Professor Aryeh Eldad says Liberman’s true intentions are to divide Jerusalem, not to eliminate Hamas leaders.
Former MK Professor Aryeh Eldad had some harsh criticism on Tuesday for incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.
“Liberman is no longer on the right,” Eldad told Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the launching of his new book, entitled “How Things Are Seen from Here”.
“Liberman is trying to look like an impassioned right-winger, claiming he will eliminate [Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh and bring about the collapse of Hamas. But in fact, Liberman wants to divide Jerusalem and is serious about it, Liberman wants to establish a Palestinian state and is serious about it, Liberman intends to give up on Umm al-Fahm and to transfer Arabs who live there to the Palestinian state. He is only right-wing when he needs to curse Arabs,” said the former MK.
“In order to maintain the image of a hawk, he says he is ready to eliminate Ismail Haniyeh. It does not cost money to talk about it. But in his declared and written policies he is no longer on the right,” said Eldad.
With regards to his new book, Eldad explained that it “tries to analyze the pattern of behavior of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Binyamin Netanyahu – why they really gave up their ideology when they became Prime Minister of Israel, and the question is whether the ideology of the right-wing in Israel can really stand even when you are Prime Minister and you are confronted with hostile American or European policy.”
“The answer in the book is that those leaders of the right in Israel who gave up their ideology did it long before they reached power – not because they became Prime Minister but in order to become Prime Minister,” he stated. “The only one who kept his ideology was Yitzhak Shamir.”
@ Felix Quigley:
Why is it important what the definition of an artificial label such as “right wing”? The need to put people into little artificial boxes is actually counterproductive to coexistence among people and to solving problems.
I am not attacking you Felix just commenting this extremely widespread practice.
I think it much more productive to analyze problems and to evaluate if leaders are solving problems or at least have ideas how to solve the problems.
The labeling obsession (which is worldwide) makes more problems than it solves.
This has been the way of all of the leaders of Israel since 1948. History teaches us that they have no Independence from the major Imperialist Capitalist Powers intis world.
These Imperialist powers have their own Imperial interests in getting involved.
Netanyahu is as bad as any example of this. He keeps hopping around as if he was dancing a jig on a very hotgriddle and if he stays too long in one place he gets scorched.
Left out of the above is that Tony Blair has been working behind the scenes on el Sisi and Herzog and then there is this position by American Jewish leaders.
Then there is the virtual sacking of Martin Sherman and Melanie Phillips from jerusalem Post.
Blair was also in touch with Netanyahu.
The most important fact about Netanyahu is that he talks to these reactionaries but he does not talk to his own Jewish people. They are kept inthe dark always by Netanyahu.
Back to Netanyahu and overall Jewish Israeli leadership…sorry to have to say that but I think it.
This is a vital and fundamental matter, the use of the terms right and left.
Your definition is not accepted by Martin Sherman. Did you and Sherman meet to clarify this before you joined together or did you just not bother?
expansion of the feeding trough?
Time will tell us if Lieberman will actually be good for Israel as the Defense Minister.
If he actually steers Israel to destroying Hamas if another conflict breaks out that would be a positive development. Israel needs to destroy the terrorists. If he is strong on this front this will be good for Israel.
That should be the main concern of Israelis. Not some of his bombastic rhetoric in the past or the rhetoric about the triangle becoming part of Palestine. What Palestine? It is not happening! No matter if the Frenchies or leftwing Jews in the USA make a plan. Simply not happening.
The only one who kept his ideology was Yitzhak Shamir.” is not true. He went to the Madrid conference which got the “Peace Process” ball rolling. The only MK who keep his ideology was Rav Kahane.