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“Lieberman: Peace Cannot be Forced Upon U.S.”
by Arutz Sheva - Gil Ronen   
April 21st, 2010

Lieberman: You Can't Force Peace One of the Israeli cabinet's more hawkish members, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Yisrael Beiteinu, told foreign diplomats Tuesday that attempts to impose a peace agreement on Israel will fail. Lieberman was delivering an Independence Day speech to the foreign diplomats in Israel, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem.

"I repeat Menachem Begin's statement – Jerusalem is our united and eternal capital,” Lieberman said, citing the late Israeli prime minister who signed the peace accords with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. Israel's capital city will not be divided – “neither directly nor indirectly,” he emphasized.

"We desire peace but this can only come with a true partner,” he elaborated. “That is how it was when we signed the peace agreements with President Sadat and afterward with the late King Hussein of Jordan. These are historic peace accords that became possible because we had true partners, as well as a supportive international environment.”

Message for US?

Lieberman probably intended his message for American and European ears when he said: “Any attempt to impose a solution on the sides, without first establishing an infrastructure of mutual trust – will only deepen the conflict. Peace can be built but not imposed.”

About 800 people attended, including foreign ambassadors and their spouses, honorary consuls, military attaches, officers from peacekeeping forces and religious representatives.

While some commentators believe that US President Barack Obama wants to force Israel to accept a withdrawal to its 1948-1967 borders, Obama himself seemed to admit that he could not make the sides agree to a peace they did not want. “The PA and Israel "may say to themselves, 'We are not prepared to resolve these issues no matter how much pressure the United States brings to bear,'" he said last week, adding that it is possible that peace cannot be reached "even if we are applying all of our political capital.”

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