israel to face diplomatic tsunami: Killer Lieberman

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his policies toward the Palestinians, warning that the regime will face a “diplomatic tsunami” in the future.

“If we don’t initiate, we’ll reach a tsunami. The initiative must be a comprehensive regional agreement,” he said, referring to the deadlock in the so-called peace talks with the Palestinians.

The hawkish politician said that the regime “must reach a diplomatic agreement — not because of the Palestinians or the Arabs, but because of the Jews.”

“We talk all the time about the dispute between us and the Palestinians, but we have not made any progress in 21 years since Oslo – because we made the wrong diagnosis.”

The comments came as the Israeli regime is set to hold parliamentary elections on March 17.

The presence and continued expansion of the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinians territories has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.

Israel agreed to freeze settlement construction under the Roadmap for Peace plan in 2002. But, it has failed to comply with that commitment despite repeated and widespread international condemnation.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.

The UN and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbids construction on occupied lands.