Critics blast ‘worrying’ Liberman defense appointment
Source: Times of Israel
Pundits and others see red over possibility outspoken politician will control military, while heaping praise on current chief Ya’alon
Politicians, pundits and others have reacted with uneasiness, disdain and bald-faced horror to the prospect of firebrand nationalist Avigdor Liberman being given the defense minister post, warning the move will be dangerous, while heaping praise on the ostensibly outgoing defense chief, Moshe Ya’alon.
Liberman has reportedly been offered and accepted the position — which would put him in control of Israel’s army as well as the military administration of the West Bank — as part of a deal to bring his Yisrael Beytenu party into the governing coalition.
The appointment is “irresponsible,” Likud MK Benny Begin told Army Radio Thursday morning, after earlier saying that appointing Liberman to the post would be a “delusional” move.
Praising Ya’alon as “excellent,” Begin warned that Liberman’s policies would not be “cautious and balanced, but irresponsible and ill-considered.”
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