10.12.2011                      14.Kislev. 5772                       Wajischlach

Meinung:

Avigdor Lieberman, national whitewasher

Experience teaches us that there is no reason to believe that Netanyahu will speak out against the damage Lieberman has done to whatever is left of Israel’s good name in the world.

Approximately eight months ago, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced that he had decided to serve Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an indictment. The first accusation had to do with money laundering. Since then, Lieberman has spent his time whitewashing certain dubious leaders. And when he is not introducing bills against left-wing NGOs and the Supreme Court, or bashing the media, the Yisrael Beiteinu leader devotes himself to making Israel look bad overseas.
A few weeks ago he got chummy with the knight of human rights, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who sent Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to prison. This week, the leader of the third largest party in Israel stood by Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin, who is competing with his Syrian friend, Bashar Assad, in the field of humanism and love of mankind….