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"The new defense minister has a long history of opposing peace plans.

Liberman quit the Likud party in 1998 over its support for the Oslo Accords. He left the Ariel Sharon led government in 2004 to protest the pending Gaza withdrawal. Again, in 2008, he walked away from the Ehud Olmert led coalition in anger over the US-backed Annapolis peace process.

He coupled that grandstanding with outrageous sounding statements over the years about wanting to bomb Ramallah and the Aswan Dam in Egypt as well as calls for drowning Palestinian prisoners in the Dead Sea.

As for Gaza, he has called on Israel multiple times to re-occupy it."


But suddenly now, dear Avi is a Dove. As said above in the Haaretz editorial, nobody believes the Israeli government. Moves are afoot to collapse the Netanyahu coalition (which has proved quite resilient up to now) however. Could be quite an interesting time for Israeli domestic politics coming up.