Avigdor Lieberman

BELGRADE - The forthcoming visit of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic to Israel will be a historic one, Israeli Ambassador in Serbia Yossef Levy stated on Wednesday and underscored that he strongly believes in the economic cooperation between the two friendly countries.

Israel has arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say.

Israel will never agree to limit its construction activity in annexed east Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Nov. 16.
      
"One thing should be clear: we will never accept the definition of building in Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem as settlement activity," he said at a news conference with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
      

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Wednesdya invited his Cypriot and Israeli counterparts, Ioannis Kasoulides and Avigdor Lieberman, for talks on closer cooperation on energy and other issues in a bid to forge a similar pact to the one signed in Cairo over the weekend by Greek, Cypriot and Egyptian heads of state.

On a lightning visit to Athens on Wednesday, the United Nations mediator for the Cyprus problem, Espen Barth Eide, said the presence of a Turkish seismic vessel off the island’s coast was hampering the resumption of stalled peace talks and fueling tensions.

Israel said on Wednesday it supported attempts by neighboring Cyprus to carry out natural gas exploration offshore, in spite of objections from Turkey challenging the endeavor.

Cyprus, a member of the European Union, has discovered sizable gas deposits south of the island toward Israel, which has made massive hydrocarbon finds in the past decade.

Cyprus has the right to conduct oil and gas exploratory drilling in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said.

Lieberman, who made the comment after talks between Cypriot and Israeli diplomats met in Nicosia on Wednesday, added that all states in the region should respect international laws and sovereignty.

Deputy Greek Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos will pay a visit to Turkey in late November amid Cyprus talks that have stalled over a dispute over the island’s natural resources.

I can never forget that one sentence from Thomas Friedman’s legendary book on the Middle East, “From Beirut to Jerusalem.” It was something like this: “Jews would like to wake up in Israel but would like to live next to Switzerland and Belgium.” After 20 years of Likud governments and small immigrant parties holding politics hostage, unfortunately Israel is now no different from any s

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has accused Turkey and Qatar of sabotaging the Gaza cease-fire proposal drafted by Egypt.