“The international community has forgotten about the Iranian issue and their desire to achieve nuclear capability,” he said. “It is clear they are no longer trying to conceal and doing everything that can to achieve the capability.”
The hawkish leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party said the government was willing to restart negotiations with Palestinians at any time without precondition despite what he called a “fully-fledged smear campaign” its leadership was carrying out against Israel.
On the issue of the tumult in the Arab world, Liberman said he hoped to see successful democratic change take root in the region.
“Egypt, our biggest neighbor, is maybe our most reliable partner in the Arab world for many years since 78,” he said. “We are monitoring the situation in Egypt. I wish for myself and them to see a successful, prosperous and democratic society.”
Earlier on Monday the World Jewish Congress officially voted in Dan Diker, a former think tank analyst and journalist, to the position of its new secretary general.
“We will remind the world of the principles that the WCJ has worked hard to defend,” Diker said after his election. “The scourge of anti-Israeli sentiment is merely the new politically correct form of anti-Semitism.”