The appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister has not led him to moderate his diplomatic positions or to soften his belligerent approach to solving the country's problems.

The political doctrine outlined by Lieberman in an interview with the Russian newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets is evidence that the foreign minister has erroneous notions about Israel's diplomatic status and that he is still clinging to his opposition to a compromise with the Palestinians, which places him at the extreme end of Benjamin Netanyahu's government.