..."Haaretz newspaper and Ynet website quoted Sarkozy as telling Netanyahu"..., so the journalists have been sitting at the meeting, or what? Even if NS said this, he is just one of millions of people who said the same. If Israel is such democratic and peace-loving country, why do people vote then for such "Representatives"?

Lieberman fits with a line of recalcitrance more suitable for an Israel prepared to unilaterally declare final borders, as per the territory Israel does not wish to retain. But he finds himself in a world where a constitutional succession in Honduras is internationally condemned as a coup, and where the likes of Abu Musab Abdul Waded feels confident about threatening France because of how France chooses to conduct its domestic affairs, vis-à-vis Islamists and the Burka. Whilst there is the possibility that, as per his public persona, Lieberman is simply a lout, with nothing more than ill-considered prejudice to propagate, underpinned by recalcitrance, and the return of Tzipi Livni would be a more balanced choice for an Israeli FM, it would be comforting to feel that the more internationally palatable alternative of Tzipi Livni, is not simply the seeking of a return to the status quo of muddling through, allied to appeasement, vis-à-vis moral ambiguity and deadly threats.