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Friday, July 2, 2010

Netanyahu-Lieberman-Turkey Dispute Spreads

That controversy over an Israeli back-channel meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister in Zurich, with the approve of Binyamin Netanyahu but without telling Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is continuing to simmer. Lieberman is furious, though not yet threatening to pull Yisrael Beitenu out of the Cabinet. He's meeting today with Bibi to demand it not be repeated and also that the PM stop acceding to governments that refuse to meet with Lieberman.

And Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is in trouble with critics as well.

And since I so often link to dovish Ha'aretz, here's an op-ed from the hardline Jerusalem Post.

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