Word: liebermanically
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...election-night orators, Lieberman appeared the most confident. His support had grown since the war, on the strength of Jewish anger at Israel's indigenous Arabs, some of whom had cheered Hamas and waved Palestinian flags during the fighting. Among other things, Lieberman had suggested that Israel should fight Hamas as "the U.S. did with the Japanese" - which some people saw as raising the remarkable specter of innocent Israeli Arabs interned in concentration camps. "Lieberman has created a classic European anti-immigrant party," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. "Only his supporters are the immigrants, and their targets...
...Indeed, much of Lieberman's support came from the most recent immigrants - the Russians, the Ethiopians, the refugees from Islamic persecution. For them, Lieberman's call for signed loyalty oaths by all Israelis, including Arabs, seemed an obvious requirement for citizenship. But there was also a cold fury among mainstream Israelis who had given Gaza back to the Palestinians only to find it ruled by Hamas, armed by Iran and lobbing missiles across the border on a daily basis. "We have to crush terror and eliminate Hamas," Lieberman said on election night, laying out his price for joining any coalition...
...this Lieberman, and where did he come from? Actually, from the same place as Livni and Netanyahu - from Likud. "Lieberman was Netanyahu's chief of staff when Bibi was Prime Minister," a veteran Likudnik told me. "He and Tzipi were also very close." Lieberman left Netanyahu's staff, turning right, in the late 1990s; Livni turned left, joining Ariel Sharon's moderate Kadima party. But Livni made it clear that she would welcome Lieberman into a governing coalition if she won, which says something about the state of moderation in Israeli politics these days. In the hours after the election...
...been described by his enemies as Satan, an extremist or Israel's own Putin. But for Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman, only one name matters: kingmaker. ( See pictures of Israel commemorating the 60th anniversary of its founding...
...Lieberman, leader and founder of Israel's surging right-wing Yisreal Beitenu party, will be the man everyone wants to talk to in the wake of Tuesday's election for Israel's 120-seat Knesset parliament. Israelis demanding security and stability helped his party earn 15 seats and finish a strong third to electoral stalwarts Likud and Kadima, even as detractors slammed Lieberman as a hardliner and a virulent anti-Arab racist. Since no party was able to claim a simple majority, either Likud or Kadima will likely need to form a governing coalition with Yisreal Beitenu, ensuring Lieberman...