Israel's minister of Strategic Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, spoke today in Saban Forum in Washington. The right wing minister criticized the arab-israeli members of Knesset who traveled to Syrian and expressed support of Hezbollah. Lieberman likened their actions to an american senator's meeting with Bin-Laden.
Lieberman stated that Israel has a right to demand loyalty of its citizens and that any who do not accept Israel's Jewish-Zionist nature cannot be one of its citizens. Lieberman directed those words to arabs and certain sects of orthodox Judaism who do not recognize Israel.
Lieberman also attacked the accepted axioms of the conflict in the Middle East:
That the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the crux of the instability in the region.
That the conflict is territorial and not ideological.
And that the establishment of a Palestinian state in the borders prior to the Six Days War will end the conflict.
Nevertheless, Lieberman said that any solution will have to improve the life and education of the Palestinians in order to have any chance of succeeding.
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