Liberman to Rebuild US-Israel Ties
Returning Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman intends to rebuild his ministry as a focal point for diplomatic negotiations and a political platform for his path to the premiership.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman will land in Washington for the yearly Saban Center Forum Dec. 6 — an event that has been inscribed in Liberman's calendar for months, but with his recent acquittal will become a kind of victory tour in the American capital.
Coordination feelers have already been sent out to set up meetings between him and key officials.
Requests for meetings with him are accumulating at a dizzying pace from all over the world — from foreign ministries to heads of states. Everywhere, it is understood that even if they don't like the man, he is here to stay.
In Liberman's first tenure as foreign minister, his relationship with then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was impossible from the get-go, full of scorn and aversion on her part and estrangement on his. In contrast, current Secretary of State John Kerry views Liberman as a key man in negotiations with the Palestinians, and intends to invest energy into developing a relationship with him.
