Lieberman on Quartet call: You can't make artificial peace

[IndianaGreen]

Lieberman on Quartet call: You can't make artificial peace

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman responded Friday to the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators' call to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, saying that peace is not something which can be created artificially and with unrealistic timetables.

"Peace will be established through actions and not by force," Lieberman told Belgium's Jewish community ahead of his scheduled talks with the ministers of several European nations.

"The Quartet is ignoring the last 16 years of Israeli attempts, and is giving the Palestinians the impression that they can achieve their demands by continuing to refuse direct negotiations under false pretexts," Lieberman said. "The Israeli government has made many significant gestures. Now it's the Palestinian's turn to prove that they are really interested in negotiations," Lieberman added.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157628.html

[ncguy]

1. It does seem like the US

often wants to try to negoitate peace on our political time table and not the ME's timetable.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Ironic that our conflict aversion President decides to pick a fight with Israel

seems out of character from the man that threw out the kitchen sink just to get 60-votes in the Senate for his health insurance reform bill.

[LeftishBrit]

3. If you're Avigdor Lieberman, you can't make any sort of peace