It’s been a good 22 years since I took French classes, and I was trying to remember the French word that best described the word’ Chutzpah’. Then I heard the news and the word became clear. The word is  Sarkozy.

Who does this guy think he is? According to a Ynet article: “Channel 2 reported Monday that during Netanyahu’s meeting with Sarkozy in Paris the latter said the prime minister should appoint Opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni in Lieberman’s place. “With her and (Defense Minister Ehud) Barak you can make history”, he was quoted as saying. “I have always accepted Israeli foreign ministers, and I loved to have Tzipi Livni here at the Elysee, but with (Lieberman) I can’t,” he was reported as saying with a wave of his hand.”

Pardoner Mois! We don’t tell you how to run your foreign affairs so what gives you the right to tell Israel how to conduct domestic politics?

The reporting of this despicable act was met with a brilliant response from PM Avigdor Lieberman.  ” Speaking to Ynet, the official said “France has meddled in another democracy’s affairs. This is intolerable. We don’t plan on asking for clarifications from Paris, but rather intend to ignore the matter entirely. I am certain that if you ask Israel’s citizens who they want in charge of appointing their foreign minister, the answer will not be the French.”

Amen.

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Not wanting to let the Iranians play the UN,US, and Europe buy paying lip service to dialogue while continuing to build their nuclear program, Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman, said that no more than 3 months should be allowed for diplomacy.

According to ynet:“It is important that the dialogue with Iran be limited, and if after three months it will become clear that the Iranians stalling and are not shelving their nuclear program, the international community will be required to take practical measures against them,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during their meeting in Rome Tuesday.

During the meeting, which ran over an hour, Lieberman asked that Berlusconi convince Russia to sever its ties with Hamas and Hizbullah, “who are terror organizations that act against the West’s allies in the Middle East, including Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.”

Once again it seems that Lieberman is making sense.

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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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While many have criticized the pick of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister, it may turn out to be a very wise move. Why? Because Lieberman can help solidify Israeli relations with the wannabe superpower. It now appears that Israel aerospace industries will sell unmanned drones to the Russians.

According to Globes:”Foreign media sources report that Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1) will sell unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to Russia for $50 million, after the Russian Parliament approved the deal.The deal is important on two levels. First, it tightens Israel’s security relations with Russia, and lessens the chance that Russia will sell its S-300 surface-to-air missiles (SAM) to Iran or Syria. Iran wants these missiles very much. Both Iran and Syria also want to collaborate with Russia on arms systems. Second, the deal opens a new and potentially lucrative market for Israel’s defense industry.”

With the Obama administration tightening the noose on Israel, it is very wise for israel to try and diversify and not rely on US support only.

Lieberman’s pick looks more and more like a very wse decision.

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