Avigdor Lieberman

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Lieberman (2017)

Avigdor Lieberman ( Hebrew אביגדור ליברמן Avigdor Lieberman ; Born on July 5, 1958 in Chișinău , Moldavian SSR , USSR , Cyrillic document name in the Soviet Union: Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман , Evet Lwowitsch Liberman ) is an Israeli politician and chairman of the Jisra'el Beitenu party . He has been a member of the Knesset (with interruptions) since 1999, after various cabinet positions he was Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2012 and from 2013 to 2015 . From May 2016 to November 2018 he was Minister of Defense in Benjamin Netanyahu IV's cabinet .

Life

Ewet Lieberman was born in Chișinău ( German  Chisinau ) in 1958 . In 1978 he immigrated to Israel and changed his first name to Avigdor . After serving in the Israeli army , he studied political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Today he lives in the Jewish settlement of Nokdim in the West Bank , also to express his sympathy with the Israeli settlement policy. However, he said that in the event of a peace agreement, he would be willing to move out of the settlement. Lieberman is married and has three children.

Political career

Beginnings

During his studies in Israel, Lieberman was active in the right-wing, Likud- affiliated student group Kastel . There he is said to have participated in violent clashes between Jews and Arabs, which at the time regularly took place at the Hebrew University. Former roommates are even said to have reported "Arab hunting" with bicycle chains and barbed wire. Liebermann was also a room steward and doorman for the student organization.

According to the statements of the two long-time Kach activists Yossi Dayan and Avigdor Eskin, Lieberman was a member of the right-wing extremist Kach party for a few months in 1979 . Eskin also stated that he saw Lieberman several times in the office of Kach founder Meir Kahane .

From 1993 to 1996, Lieberman was Secretary General of Likud. He was later appointed office manager of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was Prime Minister at the time and who had a close relationship with Lieberman. In 1997 he left the Likud.

Jisra'el Beitenu and government holdings

In 1999 he founded the Yisra'el Beitenu ( Israel, Our Home ) party - the party of Russian immigrants - and has been its chairman since then. In the 1999 parliamentary election in Israel , the party won 4 seats; Liebermann became a member of the Knesset. In Ariel Sharon's first government , he was Minister for National Infrastructure until March 2002. In Sharon's second government , Liebermann was transport minister until he was dismissed as minister in 2004 because he refused the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip .

His party won eleven seats in the 2006 Knesset election , making it the fifth largest party. In connection with the Lebanon war triggered by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on July 12, 2006 , rumors emerged that Avigdor Lieberman, as a “hardliner”, could be called back into a kind of “emergency government” - as could Netanyahu, who was then chairman of the Likud bloc and opposition leader. Ehud Olmert's majority in the Knesset was extremely thin after the Lebanon war , which is why he sought contact with Jisra'el Beitenu and openly negotiated with members of this party about participation in the government. Avigdor Lieberman was to receive a ministerial post. Olmert decided to work with the Jisra'el Beitenu and on October 30, 2006 appointed Lieberman as Minister for Strategic Reconnaissance . The Knesset confirmed Olmert's decision on October 30, 2006. Avigdor Lieberman's Jisra'el Beitenu was accepted into Ehud Olmert's coalition. In addition, Avigdor Lieberman's appointment as Minister for Strategic Intelligence and Deputy Prime Minister was approved by 22 (out of 26) ministers. Lieberman resigned from office on January 18, 2008, according to his own testimony in protest against the peace negotiations in Annapolis .

Avigdor Lieberman (2011)

In the Israeli parliamentary elections in 2009 , his party was able to improve the result to 11.7% (15 seats), making it the third largest force in the Knesset. After the elections, Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Lieberman as the new Foreign Minister on March 31, 2009 . The decision was critically commented in the media and attention was drawn to the possible strain on international relations due to Lieberman's nomination.

Lieberman resigned on December 14, 2012, from his position as Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The day before, he had been charged with fraudulent abuse of office. An investigation into more serious corruption allegations was set against it. Lieberman was accused of sponsoring the Israeli ambassador to Belarus, Zeev Ben-Arie , who in 2008 provided him with confidential information about an Israeli request against him in Minsk. After Lieberman's appointment as foreign minister, Ben-Arie received the post of ambassador to Latvia he had requested . Ben-Arie was sentenced to four months of community service in October 2012 for disclosing confidential information. Lieberman stated when he resigned that he was not aware of any crime committed. Prime Minister Netanyahu took over the post of Foreign Minister after Lieberman's resignation.

In late December 2012, two weeks after his resignation, prosecutors charged Lieberman with fraud and breach of trust. Regardless, he ran for parliamentary elections on January 22, 2013 and was elected to the Knesset. On November 6, 2013, a court in Jerusalem acquitted him of all charges. On November 11, 2013, Lieberman was reappointed Foreign Secretary. After the general election on March 17, 2015 , Lieberman resigned from the governing coalition on May 4, 2015 and resigned as foreign minister.

On May 25, 2016, he was appointed Minister of Defense by Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Avigdor Lieberman (2017)

In November 2018, Lieberman surprisingly announced his resignation. He was protesting against the Israeli government's approval of a ceasefire with Hamas , which it had offered on November 13, 2018 after massive mutual shelling. Lieberman assessed the approval as a "surrender to terror" and called on the other factions within the government to hold new elections as soon as possible.

Political goals

Lieberman is committed to a two-state solution with the Palestinians in the sense of "two states for two peoples".

He has a big problem with this model. This provides a homogeneous state for the Palestinians without a single Jew. On the other hand, Israel should become a binational state with a 20 percent Arab population. He was therefore in favor of exchanging land and populations, said Lieberman. A homogeneous Palestinian state and a heterogeneous Israel would make no sense.

Lieberman calls the Israeli Arabs ( Palestinians with Israeli citizenship) a “ fifth column ”. He and his party are demanding their transfer . Lieberman's plan calls for the citizenship of tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs to be stripped and " reunited with the Arabs in the West Bank ." The remaining Israeli Arabs are to be subjected to a loyalty test to determine whether they can stay in Israel. Israeli settlements in the West Bank are to be annexed, and smaller Arab-populated areas in Israel could be ceded to the West Bank.

Lieberman appears as a "strong man" and calls for the introduction of a presidential system in place of the existing parliamentary democracy in Israel.

On the occasion of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Israel in January 2007, he advocated the stationing of 30,000 NATO soldiers in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. These should prevent the rearmament of Palestinian extremists after an "inevitable military strike by Israel" in the coastal area, said a spokeswoman for Minister Lieberman, who is now responsible for strategic issues . A military strike in the Gaza Strip is necessary to stop the Palestinian arms smuggling from Egypt and to stop the rocket shelling of southern Israel. As soon as he took office in November 2006, Lieberman called for parts of the Gaza Strip, which was evacuated by Israel in 2005, to be reoccupied.

In his inaugural speech as Secretary of State in 2009, Lieberman declared the Annapolis Peace Process, a Middle East conference initiated by the US government, over. Negotiations with the Palestinians could only take place if they had fulfilled all the requirements of the Middle East Peace Plan ( Roadmap ) of 2003. At the same time, Lieberman ruled out a retreat from the Syrian Golan Heights , which have been occupied by Israel since 1967.

During the Gaza war in 2014 , Liebermann, as Israeli foreign minister, called for the reconquest of the Gaza Strip, which was evacuated by Israel in 2005 for no consideration , in order to prevent the ongoing bombardment of the Israeli civilian population with surface-to-surface missiles. He voted in the security cabinet against a second ceasefire with Hamas, but was overruled. This second ceasefire was broken by the Palestinian side just like the first .

Liebermann also called for an expanded recognition of pension rights for immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

In December 2017, Liebermann called for a boycott of Israeli towns that had previously protested against the planned relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem . “I call on the citizens of the State of Israel to stop shopping there, stop using services - simply boycott Wadi Ara . We have to make them feel like they're not welcome here, ”Lieberman told an army broadcaster.

In May 2018, Lieberman announced the accelerated construction of apartments in Jewish settlements. The Israeli government will promote the settlement of Judea and Samaria, the official Hebrew name for the West Bank, “with deeds”.

Controversy

In 2001, Lieberman confessed to punching a 12-year-old boy who attacked his son in the face. The incident occurred in 1999 in the Israeli settlement of Nokdim. After his son told him about the attack, Lieberman tracked down the boy and knocked him to the ground. He then dragged the boy to his parents' home in Tekoa and threatened to attack him again if the boy came back to Nokdim. He was found guilty of assault and threats.

In 2002, Lieberman called on the Israeli army to “leave no stone unturned” in Gaza and to “raze” civil targets such as shops, banks and gas stations.

In 2003, Lieberman, as Minister of Transport in the Knesset, proposed that released Palestinian prisoners be taken by bus to a place “from which they will not return”. According to other sources, he is believed to have suggested drowning the prisoners in the Dead Sea .

In 2006, Lieberman called in the Knesset that MPs who work with Hamas should be tried and executed as traitors .

In a 2006 Haaretz commentary, Lieberman is named as the successor to Meir Kahane , Rehavam Ze'evi , Jisra'el Beitenu and the settler faction in the Knesset. They would all advocate a racist policy, be it explicitly (transfer) or implicitly (Israel's right to the territories). Akiva Eldar commented in 2006 in the Haaretz that a comparison of Liebermann with Jörg Haider was unfair - for the FPÖ politician.

On January 19, 2007, he described Amir Peretz , Israeli defense minister and chairman of the Labor Party , after his speech to the Avoda Central Committee on Israeli radio as “stupid” and “racist” because of the appointment of Ghalib Mujadala as first Arab minister in Israel, calling it a response to “Lieberman's racism ”. According to a Haaretz report, he made this comment before Mujadala's candidacy for science, culture and sports minister was accepted by the Labor Party's Central Committee.

In May 2012, the Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos called Lieberman “unbearable” in an interview with the newspaper Presse am Sonntag . The Austrian Foreign Ministry distanced itself from this statement.

In connection with the 2015 election campaign, Liebermann said of Arab Israelis who are not loyal to the State of Israel: “You can't do anything with those who are against us, we have to take an ax and chop off their heads. Otherwise we will not survive here. ”Thereupon the Arab Knesset MP Ahmad Tibi accused him of being close to the IS terrorists .

In 2016, Lieberman spoke out in favor of the death penalty "against anti-Israeli attackers" and called for the Gaza Strip to proceed like Russia did in Chechnya . Israel should deal with Hamas “like the US did with the Japanese in World War II ”.

In October 2019, Lieberman said in a radio interview: "It is clear that the United List is a fifth column , not in quotation marks, but quite literally." As early as 2017, Lieberman had declared that the United List represented in the Knesset is Israeli -Arab political leadership has "become a fifth column" and acts as a "high-ranking representative of terrorist organizations in the Knesset."

literature

Web links

Commons : Avigdor Lieberman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lieberman, Avigdor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liberman, Avigdor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Chișinău , Moldovan SSR , USSR