Liberman: It's time for Israel to look for allies other than the United States

Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/20/2013 14:28

[Dave346]

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday that Israel should focus on making new allies as opposed to relying solely on its relationship with the United States.

During a speech given at the Sderot Conference, Liberman stressed the importance of not putting too much focus on America as Israel's main ally. "For many years Israel's foreign policy was one directional towards Washington, but my policy has many more directions."

Liberman, who returned to his post last week after being acquitted of fraud charges, said "the Americans today are dealing with too many challenges and I wouldn't want to be in their place. They are busy in Iran and North Korea and also have economic and immigration problems."

Liberman also attacked the treatment of Israel at the UN: "If i were to take the simplest statistic...since the founding of the security council there were 49 condemnations against Israel and only 3 against Iran."

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................

[bert]

-——They just figured that out? ——

no, they are acknowledging publicly what everybody knows.

The allies already exist under the table but can not be named.

[Eleutheria5]

I should hope he’s looking elsewhere. My own pet idea is EMA, Eastern Minorities Alliance. It would include India, Greece, Kurds, Copts, etc.