If you declare war on Israel, you and your family will lose your reign
FM Lieberman to Assad: If you declare war on Israel, you and your family will lose your reign
Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman this morning warned Syrian President Bashar Assad that he and his family would lose their reign in the event of war with Israel. Lieberman made his statement at a Business Forum hosted by the Friends of Bar-Ilan University.
Minister Lieberman was referring to a comment made yesterday by the Syrian President that Israel is not serious about its intentions to make peace with Damascus as evidenced by “its conduct which is leading the region to war.” Lieberman declared that Assad’s statement had ‘crossed a red line’. “We heard Defense Minister [Ehud] Barak’s sincere call for peace with Syria, and we have now received Syria’s answer. Whoever thinks territorial concessions will disconnect Damascus from the Axis of Evil is wrong,” Lieberman asserted.
Foreign Minister Lieberman denied any intention to begin indirect negotiations (through American mediation) with the Palestinian Authority. “I say to Salem Fayed and to Abu Mazen: without direct negotiations, not only will there never be a Palestinian State, but you will also lose control of the West Bank, just like you lost control of Gaza. The conflict with the Arab world still is no longer national, but rather religious, and no territorial compromise will work,” said Lieberman. Religious conflicts are not solved through territorial compromise. I don’t know who Abu Mazen and Salam Fayed represent. When we conduct negotiations, I want to know who’s on the other side. There is nothing we haven’t tried, from Camp David to Gush Katif, where we transferred nearly 10,000 Jews from their homes. As compensation we received Hamas and terror. Nothing has changed since November 29th 1947. Olmert and Livni used conciliatory rhetoric of peace. What is the result? The second Lebanon War, and Operation Cast Lead.”
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