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Ah my, zionist traitor to america John Bolton again preaching for the israeli government! Why would any patriotic American give this fool and the rest of the zioncons any credibility? In this thread we will see all those israel-firsters whose loyalty to America is questionable. We should invite them to move to their country of primary loyalty.

Avigdor Lieberman injects truth into Israeli foreign policy

... Now, suddenly, he has relegated Iran to second place, instead promoting "Afpak" -- Afghanistan and Pakistan -- to first place. "Pakistan is nuclear and unstable, and Afghanistan is faced with a potential Taliban takeover," he told Alexander Rosensaft, the Israeli correspondent of Moskovskiy Komsomolets, "and the combination form a contiguous area of radicalism ruled in the spirit of bin Laden.

"I do not think this makes anyone in China, Russia or the US happy," Lieberman continued... "These countries [Pakistan and Afghanistan] are a threat not only to Israel, but to the global order as a whole."

This is hogwash, because neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan is currently "ruled in the spirit of bin Laden." Afghanistan is governed by President Hamid Karzai, chosen for the job by the United States after the 2001 invasion (although much of the Pashtun-populated south and south-east is controlled by the Taliban-led insurgency) Pakistan has a democratically elected civilian government (although the war in Afghanistan has radicalised the Pashtun-majority regions of Pakistan as well, and Pakistan's government is making highly controversial concessions to the "Pakistani Taliban.")

...It is doubly interesting because it tells us what Israeli strategists are thinking. Why has Avigdor Lieberman just changed his position on the most important strategic threat to Israel? Because he has just become foreign minister, and had all the strategic briefings that incoming foreign ministers get. So now he knows what the general staff and the professional diplomats really think....

http://www.straight.com/article-216140/gwynne-dyer...

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