[Avigdor Lieberman] "does not give many newspaper interviews, preferring public comments and speeches. In Maariv, his radical views were on display. He said, for example, that the only hope for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute was not a negotiated two-state solution but a land swap and population exchange in which Palestinian citizens of Israel would end up in a Palestinian state."Asked how he expected the international community to accept that, he said, The world will accept anything that we rally around. He added: The world is fed up with us. They want a solution by all possible means. We have become a global headache."Mr. Lieberman, who lives in a West Bank settlement, said he had no intention of taking his party out of the coalition even if his approach was rejected by the government...."On the question of Washingtons demands regarding East Jerusalem, he said he was certain Israel could convince the administration that curbing Jewish building was unreasonable. Asked what he would do if he was unsuccessful, he replied, There will be no choice but to insist, to pay the price even if it is high. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html?hpWho does FM Lieberman think will pay the price?

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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