http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_Yosef
This rabbi has a most liberal of all Orthodox Jewish belief systems. And, he has truly been around the block, born in Iraq.
Rav Yosef is a complex character. He founded the Shas party back in the 80s to combat discrimination against Sephardim. Unlike the Ashkenazim, there is no great divide between the ultra-Orthodox, the Orthodox, and the rest of us among the Sephardim. The party has been a going concern ever since. He helped get the Ethiopians out of there when it was under Communism and he gave Rabin the support he needed to open the Oslo talks despite the fact that his party was entirely against it. But when he gives a sermon he just lets it rip in the bluntest of manners. These current talks are a fraud orchestrated by Obama because the other side is not coming without preconditions and is just making a show until they can walk out blaming Israel. Yosef was just calling a spade a spade.