Lieberman is valuable because he strips away the pretense that the Israeli government seeks peace. All an Israeli politician has to do is say he or she favors peace or the two state solution and then in the meantime they do whatever they want. Lieberman is too arrogant or stupid or whatever to play the game the way it is supposed to be played.

On the other hand, I may be overestimating American politicians. I’m assuming that there has to be some limit to their hypocrisy and that supporting Lieberman would be too much, but maybe not.