Livni Promises To ‘Maintain Maximum Settlers’
Livni Promises To ‘Maintain Maximum Settlers’
Tzipi Livni and Binyamin Netanyahu, partners for peace:
Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said he would not be bound by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s commitments to evacuate West Bank settlements and withdraw from the territories.
“I will not keep Olmert’s commitments to withdraw and I won’t evacuate settlements. Those understandings are invalid and unimportant,” Netanyahu said.[...]
After Netanyahu and senior Likud officials blasted Olmert and Livni’s “promises” and accused Livni of agreeing to divide Jerusalem, she was forced to disassociate herself from the understandings.
“I will advance only an agreement that represents our interests. Maintaining maximum settlers and places that we hold dear such as Jerusalem — not a single refugee will enter,” Livni said. [...]
[Netanyahu] said he would invite Kadima and all the Zionist parties to join his coalition providing they agree to his guidelines — no division of Jerusalem, no return to 1967 borders.
When leaders of competing Palestinian factions make maximalist claims to appeal to hardline constituencies, it’s extremism. But when Israeli leaders do it, it’s politics. If the goal of the U.S. and Israel is to strengthen Palestinian moderates like Abu Mazen against Hamas — and people keep telling me that’s the goal — it’s hard to see how this helps.
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Israel doesn’t want peace and the U.S. won’t press them for a fair deal. Prepare for more tampering by America and its BFF.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:27 amWhat kind of hack journalism is this?
Please, Bibi Netanyahu speaks for all Israelies? Please – does McCain speak for all Americans?
Come on, it is politics when a Democracy debates and that is what is happening. Where’s the debate in Gaza? They throw you off the roof and cheer!!!!
Israels leaders often speak tough rhetoric as they are essentially threatened with “extermination” daily by their neighbors.
Don’t talk about politics in Israel if you know not what you speak.
February 1st, 2009 at 5:49 pmI didn’t claim that either Bibi or Livni spoke “for all Israelis,” I simply noted that both of them are running for election promising to hold on to illegal settlements.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 am