Liberman noted that many of the terrorists who have murdered Israelis in recent years were included in the 1,027-for-one deal to obtain Gilad Shalit’s release.
Avigdor Liberman
The only person to be executed in Israel since 1954 was Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, who was hanged in 1962.
“The idea behind the disengagement, that the Arabs would all of a sudden want peace and would be our subcontractors on security, collapsed.”
Tillerson had declared the purported change in PA policy on Tuesday.
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford landed in the Jewish state Monday as a guest of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot.
Relations between North Korea and Israel just took a turn for the worse after Israel’s Russian-born Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman called the regime “a crazy and radical group.”
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis landed in Israel on Thursday afternoon, as the third stop in his five country, week-long tour of the Middle East.
“It cannot be that a hegemonic Palestinian state will be established, without a single Jew—100 percent Palestinian, and Israel will be a bi-national state with 22 percent Palestinians,” Lieberman said.
“After two days of meetings, I can say absolutely that we understand one another and there is room for us to move forward.”
“The position of the US is crucial to eliminating obstacles that undermine stability in the Middle East. We need an active America in our region.”
The comment came on the heels of a factfinding mission by two Republican senators to Jerusalem last weekend.
“I want to make clear – we should separate from the Palestinians, not absorb Palestinians in our own area. It’s 2,700,000 Palestinians.”
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had his first official meeting with his new American counterpart, Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved the construction of 3,000 more homes across Judea and Samaria.
Larcher answered that there was a deep need to establish a dialogue mechanism between parliaments “to avoid misunderstanding and prejudice.”
