The new Israeli foreign policy is on display, and it sure is refreshing. Gone is cow-towing to all world leaders in the hope that they will ‘like Israel’ in exchange for them to pressure Israel into committing national suicide. The new policy, put forth by new FM Avigdor Lieberman, is to stand up for principle, and if you don’t like it, tough. Even if it mean souring diplomatic relations.

The latest episode comes after Lieberman called back to Israel, ambassador Ilan Elgar, in protest of the Swiss president meeting with Iranian madman Mamoud Ahmadinejad.

According to Ynet: “Even before the meeting, state officials in Jerusalem expressed their anger and resentment. “There’s no reason in the world for meeting with a Holocaust denier, the president of a country exporting terror, hatred and anti-Semitism,” one of the sources said.

“A meeting with Ahmadinejad badly damages the international moral coalition against Iran and serves as a dishonorable move which should never take place. A head of state who has some respect for himself should not shake the hand of the Holocaust denier from Tehran.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed Ahmadinejad’s participation in the conference at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting Monday, saying that “While we remember the six million (Jews murdered in the Holocaust), a conference will be held in Switzerland allegedly against racism. Its guest of honor is a Holocaust denier who does not conceal his plan to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

“I congratulate the countries which chose to boycott the conference. Contrary to those dark days, today we have a strong Jewish state,” he said, adding that “Unfortunately, not everyone has learned the lesson of the Holocaust.”

Well I guess that the one country that hasn’t learned the lesson of the Holocaust is the same country whose banks stole hundreds of millions of Jewish money during the Holocaust.

Kind of ironic, no?

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In 2001, the United Nations world conference against racism in Durban, South Africa, became a venue for the worst display of anti-Semitism since the Nazi period. The conference declaration singled out Israel, while NGO activists and demonstrators called for the elimination of “racist” and “Apartheid” Israel. Supporters of Israel were vastly outnumbered and hardly seen in the international media.
The U.N. is holding its follow-up Durban Review Conference in Geneva during the week of 20-24 April 2009. Libya chairs the planning committee, and Iran and Cuba are vice-chairs. The latest draft declaration reaffirms the 2001 text, which couples Israel with racism. In support of Durban II, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist extremists are organizing a series of public events in Geneva on 18-20 April, where they will call for a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel, which they compare to Nazi Germany.

In response, on Wednesday, 22 April, friends of Israel—Jews and non-Jews from across Europe and around the world—will gather in Geneva to stand with Israel as its very legitimacy comes under attack, supporting Israel as a democratic, multicultural, and humanitarian society that respects human rights and the UN Charter.

Natan Sharansky will be participating in this rally, and will be the keynote speaker in the session titled “Israel, Democracy, and the Search for Peace””

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Citing continued failure and a flawed process the new Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, looks like it will be taking a  much different approach in peace negotiations that previous Israeli governments.

According to the Daily Mail: “Liberman said: ‘The historic approach has so far not brought any result or solution.’

He said they would need to find a ‘new approach’.

He added: ‘Past prime ministers were prepared to make wide-ranging concessions and the result of the Olmert-Livni government was the second Lebanon war, the operation in Gaza, severance of relations with Qatar and Mauritania, Gilad Schalit still in captivity and the peace process at a dead end.’

Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials of the new government have spoken at length about the emotional and strategic ties between Israel and the United States, clear differences are emerging over the outlines for an Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Ultra-nationalist Lieberman made waves after after taking office last month, saying the past year of U.S.-led negotiations was no longer relevant and concessions to Palestinians only invite war.”

Looks like Israel will hold the Palestinians accountable for terrorism, as we demand that they acknowledge, officially, that Israel has a right to exist in their own Jewish homeland.

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So what’s your solution, Mr. Secretary, more sanctions? Well that hasn’t gotten the world very far, has it? Haven’t sanctions been imposed and all the while the Iranians continue to build their nuclear program?

It appears that US Defense Sec’y Robert Gates is the latest in a long line of Obama administration officials warning Israel not to use a military strike against Iran to delay their nuclear program, which will threaten Israel’s very existence.

According to Ynet: “US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned this week that an Israeli attack on Iran would have dangerous consequences, and claimed that Tehran’s acquisition of a nuclear bomb can be prevented only if “Iranians themselves decide it’s too costly,” the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Speaking to students at Marines Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, Gates said that while an Israeli strike would likely delay the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program one to three years, it would also “cement their (Iranians) determination to have a nuclear program, and also build into the whole country an undying hatred of whoever hits them.”

First of all, even a delay would benefit Israel, and secondly, what is your solution. You have been asleep at the wheel for years as Iran continues to thumb their nose at UN sanctions , and have progressed beyond the stage of enriching uranium. Your policy has been a failure. Why does the Obama administration continue to threaten Israel, an ally, while pander to Iran, the enemy?

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