Stalinism at the Foreign Ministry?
Isi Leibler
Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem
31 December 09
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has a penchant for rubbing against the grain of Israelis with some of his more abrasive statements.
Today’s Jerusalem Post contains an item in which an unnamed Foreign Ministry official accuses Liebermann of trying to initiate a “Stalinist” regime inside the ministry in order to strike fear in the hearts of ministry workers. This came after Lieberman approved the suspension of a senior official accused of having leaked information to the media.
The incident exemplifies the problem prevailing within the Foreign Ministry and other civil service divisions in Israel where too often officials have become so full of themselves that they seem to have lost the plot.
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Love of the Land: Stalinism at the Foreign Ministry?
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