Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman has asked
France to help put Israel in touch with various moderate forces that he
said were rising in the Arab world. During a meeting in Brussels on
Monday, he also stressed Israel’s stance against Hezbollah obtaining
chemical weapons from Syria.
Liberman told French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius that he regarded some of the forces that have surfaced during the
uprisings in the region as “new, educated and liberal,” and said France
could fulfill a historic role if it mediated between them and Israel.
The foreign minister did not specify which
countries he was referring to, but he may have been thinking of Libya,
where Islamist politicians were defeated by secularists in parliamentary
elections last week, and of opposition forces that have coalesced in
several Arab countries.
While radical forces have gained power in many
countries across the Middle East, “the Arab spring brought with it a
new and young force,” the foreign minister told Fabius. He said members
of this new generation understood that not all their problems stemmed
from Israel, but rather from an unjust allocation of resources within
their countries.
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