Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warns that negotiating the borders of a Palestinian state without security arrangements for Israel would be a "historic mistake."
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned on Monday that negotiating the borders of a Palestinian state without security arrangements for Israel would be a "historic mistake." "It would be a dramatic mistake, a historic mistake and strategic mistake to talk about borders before we complete the security discussions," Lieberman told Israel's army radio. Lieberman's comments came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was holding talks in the United States. The Palestinians halted talks after Israel refused to renew a partial freeze on settlement construction that expired at the end of September, just weeks after the two sides embarked upon direct ‘peace talks’. Lieberman, a fiery ultra-nationalist, frequently expresses his own views on the so-called peace process that stand at odds with the official positions of Netanyahu.Lieberman Warns against Setting “Borders” of Palestinian State
