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03/22/2009: "Unapologetic Israeli foreign minister causes diplomatic problems with Egypt"

Egypt may refuse to work with Avigdor Lieberman, the ultranationalist politician expected to be named as Israel's next foreign minister.

The country's leaders are demanding he apologise for comments last year in which he told president Hosni Mubarak to "go to hell".

Fearing a diplomatic breakdown, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israeli President Shimon Peres immediately apologised to the Egyptians.

Mr Lieberman scoffed at their overtures at the time, accusing the two Israeli leaders of acting like "a battered wife" before the Egyptians.

[ Most Egyptians wish Mubrarak would go to hell too, although they hate Lieberman as well. Lieberman is much more of a straight talker than Israel is used to having in a powerful political position. He's a man who isn't afraid to be called a "racist". He wouldn't give a damn. I don't know where this right wing government is going exactly, but it looks like there is going to be less of the two-faced indecisiveness of Israel's previous governments. ]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5032256/Egypt-threatens-to-ignore-new-Israeli-foreign-minister.html