Arutz Sheva: Lieberman Upstages AIPAC: Don’t Count on United States

[Patricia M. McBride]

Did anyone ever think a single president, no matter how bad, could get us such a negative reputation all in one term while muddling into every aspect of our lives.................and apparently making just as many bad decisions internationally (which is on of the jobs he actually can claim and his job and the job of our federal government). 

Lieberman warns that a US unable to intervene to stop Assad’s “systematic murder” can’t be counted on to aid Israel in time of need.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

3/4/2012

Plain-speaking Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Sunday that if the United States is too weak to be able to intervene to stop Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ”systematic murder of innocent civilians,” it can’t be counted on to come to Israel’s aid.

"If the international community is incapable of stopping the massacres in Syria, what is the value of its promises to protect the security of Israel?" he told Voice of Israel government radio Sunday as American and Israeli leaders prepare to address the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington.

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are expected to outdo each other in trying to show who is the most pro-Israel. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres also will address the conference, with the Iranian nuclear threat the number one issue.

Lieberman, known for his no-nonsense and straight-talk manner, made it clear he is not interested on jumping on the “American-Israeli friendship” bandwagon.

He charged that the failure of the United States and the Western world to stop Assad’s slaughter of thousands of Syrian civilians "challenges all the promises of the international community that they are responsible for our security.

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