Israel's Right-Wing Foreign Minister

Sayanora, Tzipi? According to the Associated Press, Likud has inked its first coalition deal with the far-right Israel Beiteinu Party. Under the deal, Israel Beiteinu’s lightning-rod leader, Avigdor Lieberman, who believes the country’s Arabs should have to take loyalty oaths, will replace Tzipi Livni as Israel’s foreign minister. The agreement includes a provision, however, that both sides are willing to welcome the moderate Kadima Party into the coalition, under which circumstances Livni might remain foreign minister.