Statement from Middle East Progress

June 11, 2007

Whatever one thinks of Senator Lieberman’s statements on Iran, implying as the Drudge Report does, that Senator Lieberman made his proposal based not on his views as a United States Senator but on his relationship to Israel is despicable. We urge Drudge to take down the picture of Senator Lieberman with Prime Minister Olmert standing in front of the seal of the State of Israel. That picture has no relation, either temporally or substantively, to the statement Senator Lieberman made on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday.

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Setting the Record Straight

Economic Development No Substitute for Negotiations

“The focus in the latter years of the Bush administration and the first year of the Obama administration on negotiation seems to me to marginalize what should be central and instead [makes] central what is not essential to the building of a Palestinian state. Israeli-Palestinian negotiations can come later.”
—Elliott Abrams, former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush; senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, interview, “Focus on West Bank, Not Negotiating,” January 13, 2010
 
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  • “Look, I’m an economist by training, not someone who would cast any doubts on the importance of economic improvements. Nevertheless, economics is just one leg on which a future Palestine must stand. To think that ‘economic peace’ is going to be a substitute for the political tract—that’s not something I would agree with.”
    —Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, interview with Tablet Magazine, December 8, 2009

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