Israel – A classified document authored by a US official following the appointment of Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman as Foreign Minister describes the Israeli official as a man who enjoys his political status and who strives to become prime minister.
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Former American Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham stated that Lieberman enraged not only his local constituency, but also stirred a diplomatic storm in Cairo after saying that if (now ousted) President Hosni Mubarak refuses to visit Israel, he can go to hell, adding that Israel can bomb Egypt’s Aswan dam.
Under the title “not necessarily the bogeyman”, Cunningham claims that many of the Israeli foreign minister’s political nuances disappear within his bombastic rhetoric and that most of his comments are aimed at making headlines.
 The former ambassador to Israel also noted that Washington is well aware that Lieberman is not the next Yossi Beilin, who he described as a peace supporter and the person behind the Geneva Initiative.
Cunningham concluded by saying that Lieberman is definitely “not the boss,” despite his role as Israel’s number one diplomat, and that he is not likely to be one of the main decision makers on issues relating to the United States, the Palestinians and Syria.
Get that! If he were the foreign minister of a European country he’d be condemned all over the media and in political circles as a racist hate-monger. But because he is the foreign minister of AIPAC’s, I mean, Congress’s beloved State of Israel he gets a pass. How convenient……..