Isi Leibler
Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem
31 December 09
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has a penchant for rubbing against the grain of Israelis with some of his more abrasive statements.
Today’s Jerusalem Post contains an item in which an unnamed Foreign Ministry official accuses Liebermann of trying to initiate a “Stalinist” regime inside the ministry in order to strike fear in the hearts of ministry workers. This came after Lieberman approved the suspension of a senior official accused of having leaked information to the media.
The incident exemplifies the problem prevailing within the Foreign Ministry and other civil service divisions in Israel where too often officials have become so full of themselves that they seem to have lost the plot.
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The leftists in Israel's Foreign Ministry have been told to get along with the program or get out if they don't like it. Its obscene to compare Lieberman to Stalin, who killed millions for defying him. All that will happen to cashiered Foreign Ministry employees is a long life on the rubber chicken circuit and plenty of foreign media exposure for being critical of Israel.
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