Israel’s foreign minister said Wednesday that it was time for his country to look beyond the U.S. as its principal ally, the Jerusalem Post reports. Foreign minister Avigdor Liberman said that the U.S. was too distracted with other problems. However, with talks resuming in Geneva toward a nuclear deal with Iran that Israel fears is too weak, Liberman’s statement reflects disappointment in President Obama’s policies.
“For many years Israel’s foreign policy was one directional towards Washington, but my policy has many more directions,” Liberman said, according to the Post. Prior to the Six-Day War in 1967, the U.S. was an important ally but France was Israel’s main source of diplomatic and military support in the West. Israel has occasionally reached out independently to China and Russia in the past, sometimes irritating the U.S. administration.
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