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US Envoy: Lieberman Met with Arafat Aide, Backed Full Withdrawal - Politics & Government - Israel News
US Envoy: Lieberman Met with Arafat Aide, Backed Full Withdrawal - Politics & Government - Israel News
(IsraelNN.com) In a new book, former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has dropped a potential political bombshell, revealing that Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, once held secret talks on territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA) with one of Yasser ...
Connecticut attorney general eyes Lieberman challenge
thehill.com — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who announced Monday he will seek a sixth term, is mulling a... challenge against Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in 2012. Multiple Connecticut Democrats, speaking on condition of anonymity, say Blumenthal ... (more) Connecticut attorney general eyes Lieberman challenge
Lieberman Under Attack for Statement on Dividing Jerusalem - Politics & Government - Israel News
israelnationalnews.com — (IsraelNN.com) Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman came under heavy fire Sunday from right-wing movements and at... least one Knesset member for statements he reportedly made during the weekly cabinet meeting. Lieberman was quoted as saying ... (more) Lieberman Under Attack for Statement on Dividing ...
A cautionary note - Haaretz - Israel News
haaretz.com — Over the past week I took statements from about a dozen people who know Tzipi Livni quite... well. None of them is close to either Benjamin Netanyahu or Ehud Barak. Most support Kadima or parties on the left. Nevertheless, all are concerned. The portrait ... (more) A cautionary note - Haaretz - Israel News ...
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Et tu Avigdor?
Israel Matzav — ... Former Clinton and Bush negotiator Martin Indyk has written a book on our region called " The End of the Peace Process ." Arutz Sheva reports that the book claims that Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman met with a senior aide to the then Fatah leader Yasser Arafat and said that the Right could live with Ehud Barak's Camp David offer to the terrorists: turning over 95% of Judea and Samaria to the 'Palestinians.' Here's the page from Indyk's book: ...

US Envoy: Lieberman Met with Arafat Aide, Backed Full Withdrawal
Israpundit — by Baruch Gordon, Arutz Sheva, INN, Jan. 29, 2009 M.K. Avigdor Lieberman, Yisrael Beitenu party leaderIsraelNN.com) In a new book, former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has dropped a potential political bombshell, revealing that Avigdor ...

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS JUST LIKE A LEFTIST
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERSSome very appalling revelations have come up about Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party: (IsraelNN.com) In a new book, former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has dropped a potential political bombshell, revealing that Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, once held secret talks on territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA) with one of Yasser Arafat's key advisers. In addition, Indyk asserts that Lieberman told his PA interlocutor, Muhammad Rachid, that he was prepared to accept the ...

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