'Iraeli FM questioned over graft
Avigdor Lieberman, the new Israeli foreign minister, has been questioned by police on suspicion of corruption.
Israeli police said that Lieberman had been placed under caution on Thursday and questioned for more than seven hours at the national fraud squad headquarters in central Israel, as part of an ongoing investigation.
"Avigdor Lieberman was questioned under caution by police today for seven-and-a-half hours on suspicion of carrying out the following: bribery, money laundering and breach of trust," Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said.
The long-running investigation is examining Lieberman's business dealings.
His lawyer and daughter have also been interrogated.
Lieberman denies all of the allegations.
In a statement issued by his office, Lieberman said he is "in a hurry to end this inquiry which has gone on for 13 years. The minister co-operated and answered the investigators' questions".
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland, reporting from Jerusalem, said: "Lieberman has actually complained about the way that this investigation has been dragged out, he says it is having a very damaging effect on his public image and he has filed a petition to the court asking for it all to be speeded up.
She noted that the previous government of Ehud Olmert "was brought down by exactly these kind of corruption allegations".
Lieberman became Israeli foreign minister on Tuesday after weeks of talks during which Binyamin Netanyahu, the new prime minister, brought together a ruling coalition.
He is a controversial politician with ultra-nationalist views, which have left analysts doubting the possibility of peace between Israel and the Palestinians during his tenure.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Gideon Levy of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said: "One way or the other, this [investigation] should come to an end, hopefully soon, because it is impossible to [be] Israel's foreign minister and to be under such heavy suspicion.
"In any normal country, he [Lieberman] would not have been nominated at all with such suspicions, but in Israel everything is possible, and we have to wait and see what will come out of those investigations."'
Zie: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/04/200942145820429387.html
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De uitkomst van het onderzoek is de uitkomst die goed is voor de PR.
anzi
aan anoniem: Toch is het erop gekomen is waar! Ik veronderstel dat u verontwaardigd nu. Avigdor Lieberman is inocent tot bewezen schuldig / Tenminste, dat het feit in Israël. Ik weet niet hoe het is in het Nederlands.
Abe Bird
Lieberman is voor Israel schuldig voor de slechte PR in de wereld. Buiten Israel is hij schuldig aan het discrimineren van een bevolkingsgroep, medeverantwoordelijk voor misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en het stelen van land, ophitsen en haatzaaien tegen een bevolkingsgroep. Hij spreekt voor Israel dat vanaf het begin van zijn ontstaan hiervoor verantwoordelijk is, maar het al die jaren op een geraffineerde wijze heeft weten te versluieren.
anzi
Daarnaast is hij door Israël zelf al eerder veroordeeld. In 2001 gaf hij toe en werd hij schuldig bevonden aan de mishandeling van een 12-jarige jongen. Natuurlijk zou in een echte democratie zo iemand nooit en te nimmer minister kunnen worden. Maar ja, Israël is natuurlijk geen democratie en de grootste oorlogsmisdadigers worden tradititioneel politici.
Abe Bird,
Zand indeed specialized in the intellectual history of modern France. But, like he says in his book, nowadays historians are expected to specialize in a narrow subject or a limited period, so examining *big* questions, like the history of jewish people, becomes virtually impossible. It is very easy to dismiss his thesis on these grounds. Much harder is to accept the challenge and try to answer some of the disturbing questions that he brings up in his work, like:
*How can one talk about the Jewish exile, while the vast majority of jews stayed in judea after The Great Revolt?
*Where did exactly the millions of Jews in different places in the Mediterranean at the Hellenistic period come from?
*What is exactly the origin of the massive Ashkenazi-jewish people?
And many more.
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