Speaking to his French counterpart Monday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel could not “restrict itself” if it turns out that Hizbullah or other terror groups got their hands on Syria's chemical weapons. During the meeting, the two discussed bilateral issues and the radical changes the “Arab spring” has brought to the Middle East. The two also discussed the situation in Syria.
Lieberman said that he believed there was a chance that new governments in Arab countries, the result of recent revolutions, still had a chance to succeed. The leaders of these revolutions “realize that theur problem is not Israel, Zionism, or the Jews, but poverty, political persecution, and the huge gap between the vast majority of wealthy and the small numbers of the wealthy who got that way because of unjust use of natural resources and unfair division of income from those resources. The main danger,” Lieberman said, adding that the greatest danger for the revolutionaries “was the radicalism by militant groups identified with 'jihad,' such as Al Qaeda and Iran.” He added that France could have an important role in “fashioning the future of the Middle East.”