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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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For those of you who still don’t think that new US Prez. Barack Obama is going to be pressuring Israel to make all kinds of concessions, you had better wake up. According to an article in Globes, Obama plans on getting directly involved in trying to shape the new Israeli government. According to Globes: “US President Barack Obama reportedly may urge Israeli political leaders to form a national unity government, according to British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph.”

To be fair, the article says that PM wannabe Benjamin Netanyahu may enlist Obama to lean on another PM wannabe Tzipi Livni, to have her join a national unity government that Netanyahu would head. I hope that this is not true but if it is, it doesn’t speak much of Netanyahu. Are we already seeing the ‘old Netanyahu’ surface? He may be the best finance minister in Israel, and he make the best Foreign minister as well, but the jury is out on his ability as a PM. It almost seems at this point that his only drive is to become PM. After all, he ran a pretty bad election campaign, basically trying to run out the clock and not make any slip-ups in order to win the election. His strategy came at the expense of his own Likud party who managed to win only 27 seats, when the potential existed for somewhere in the mid-30’s.

Now he is gonna to enlist/succumb to US pressure in order to become PM? What are the ramifications of this? Are there any Israeli politicians left that won’t do anything for power? Pretty sick. And what about Obama? Shouldn’t he leave the make up of the next Israeli government to Israeli’s? Doesn’t he have enough domestic issues to deal with?

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Though she denies it, it appears that PM wannabe Tzipi Livni has already agreed to divide Jerusalem if she wins the election to be held in a week and a half.

The Jpost reports: “According to the report, Olmert told US envoy George Mitchell that he and Livni agreed to divide Jerusalem, maintain only settlement blocs in the West Bank and uproot 60,000 Jews from their homes. The revelations of the concessions less than two weeks before the February 10 election reportedly upset Livni, who told confidants that she believed Olmert, her predecessor as Kadima leader, was purposely harming her.”

Livni is no novice to uprooting Jews from their homes. She was one of the architects of the disastrous Expulsion from Gush Katif, which ultimately led to the recently paused  war with Hamas.

Though she denies this report, she does so because she needs to deny it politically. I can’t imagine that anyone believes that she DIDN’T already make some kind of deal with Mitchell.

The good news. It looks like she is going to get thumped in the election and her disastrous proposal won’t see the light of day.

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