Brussels, 07/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Sunday 4 January, Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said he believed that Western countries were the main challenge for his country in 2015. “Our great challenge is not the Palestinians or the Arab countries but the Western countries”, he told a conference of European ambassadors in Israel, according to Israeli media.
Lieberman criticised the EU member states and several of their parliaments which have called for recognition of the state of Palestine. In particular, he singled out Sweden, which has recognised the state of Palestine, and Ireland, saying that the lies that have been heard in the debates in the Irish and Swedish parliaments are as numerous as the same inventions and distortions in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the alleged Jewish plan to dominate the world at the start of the 20th century). He added that there are European countries today that are re-writing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and said that there was no doubt that the behaviour of countries like Sweden and Ireland was similar to that of the Munich agreement in 1938, when the Europeans abandoned their greatest ally - Czechoslovakia.
Lieberman also reportedly asked his ministry to draw up a list of MEPs who have made anti-Israeli statements. (CG)