Last week, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced a new policy of national pride, instead of what he saw as groveling by Israeli diplomats around the world. His deputy, fellow Israel Beitenu member Danny Ayalon, implemented the new policy this week by seating the Turkish ambassador on a low couch while he sat on a high seat, and told reporters in Hebrew that the whole point is that the ambassador will see that Israel is up and Turkey is down.
Lieberman and Ayalon confuse pride and steadfastness with rudeness. In a normal country, Ayalon and Lieberman would have been fired after such a fiasco. Then again, in a normal country the two wouldn't be our top diplomats in the first place. Prime Minister Netanyahu was totally inept and passive. He should have made Ayalon apologize immediately.
Why the hell isn't the Labor Party demanding Ayalon's head?
Farewell to Steve Silberman
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A source deep inside Zion tells me that although no heads will roll, Lieberman and Ayalon are being relegated to playing in their own little sandbox, with Barak doing the real Foreign Office work...
ReplyDeleteThat's true, but Lieberman still manages to do great damage even from his marginalized position.
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