Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Monday addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference in Washington, saying the only way to maintain Israel as the national home of the Jewish people was to take the lead in enacting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Livni said that such a move was in Israel’s interest and was not to be done as a favor to anyone else, including the US president, nor was the peace process nearly to be used as a talking point to increase Israel’s standing in the world.
The opposition leader stated that Israel must take the lead in the diplomatic process or the country risks having decisions made about its future against its will.
Livni added, however, that peace could not be negotiated with Hamas because they represented religious ideology, and religious conflict cannot be solved.
In addition to the Palestinian unity deal between Hamas and Fatah, Livni listed Palestinian plans to ask the UN to recognize a Palestinian state in September as an obstacle to peace. She stated that it was not too late too change either negative development.
Livni praised US President Barack Obama for his commitment to prevent a Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN. She added that Israel must help him achieve this goal by taking steps to renew negotiations with the Palestinians.
The Kadima head said that Israel must insist that Hamas accept the Quartet conditions – that they recognize Israel, that they renounce violence and that they abide by all previous agreements.
Livni said that Israel and the US must come to an agreement about the path to take to peace through intimate discussion and not through public speeches.
The opposition leader said that the two-state solution was the policy of the last three governments and is not an anti-Israeli policy, but rather in Israel’s essential interest.
Livni added that the lack of a diplomatic process to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not an option.
Livni stated that the goal of Israel as a state was to ensure a safe and democratic national home for the Jewish people exists on the land of the ancestors. She said that this vision would be jeopardized if Israel failed to take the initiative in the diplomatic process.
It is extraordinary that Livni has the chutzpah to offer the Israeli opposition’s view on the peace pretense – for a process it isn’t – at AIPAC. It is just as extraordinary that AIPAC lacked the courtesy to not give Livni a platform to air her disloyalty to Israel. The differences between Likud and Kadima are matters for debates in the Knesset and inside Israel. It is Livni’s naked ambition to be PM that impels her to extend her local Israeli politicing into the international arena. Equally, her hysteria and negativity identify her as unworthy of high office. She just wants to continue the failed policy she sought to implement under Olmert. She is a loser and Israel cannot afford to consider a person like her in control of the Jewish state.
Obama in his grandiosity thinks he can choose Israel’s leaders– and Livni is his choice since she too is an appeaser. Israelis however are not cowed by threats from the wimp in the White House, the man who “leads from behind”. It’s time for Israel to stop appeasing the Arabists in the State department and make it’s own foreign policy. They should remind the world that they have nukes and are prepared to use them.
We are investing unwarranted time with the likes of Livni and Mofaz et al…
So we do not forget the two items past…
Comparing the disgusting items to Netanyahu, even if the later is not that trustworthy, is assuming a wide amount of privilege. They are in a completely different level, with Livni & Mofaz being at the bottom of the barrel.
Livni was intrinsic part of the “disengagement” including planning the separation of mothers and children into “special camps” were the Jews they assaulted were to be re educated. She was the closest one to Sharon his son and Olmert. She posts a reference to the MOSSAD. DIstributed information say that she was an “appartments sitter” in Paris… (Please no smerks)…
She was also a key member of Olmert’s Lebanon II debacle. Peretz, Halutz, Livni and Olmert…
Since I am a veteran member of the LIKUD Central Committee, I met with both of those items several times before they stole mandates on behalf of Sharon. I concluded that her preference of snake skin for shoes and purses is quite fitting.
I presume that some reader may conclude that I despise the lass, that would be an under estimation.
Israel can recognize the territory contolled by Jordan as the Palestian State with its capital in Amman. Then annex all of Judea and Samaria. Then maybe grat the newly annexed terriroies independence as the 2nd, or 2nd and 3rd Jewish states.
In that case, the job is already done; she can go home & celebrate.
The two-state solution has been enacted, the two states exist — the Arab one, named for the River that separates the two, has been independent for two years longer than the Jewish one.
Next item of business?
Livni is not stating anything that Netanyahu has not said in one way or another in support of a 2 state solution. She did not however, like Netanyahu, express his disdain for Obama’s 2 state solution premised on the pre-1967 line.
She even said:
Again, that too is something akin to what Netanyahu has said, albeit in both stating the goal of a 2 state solution, one can take it that neither mean all the land of the ancestors.
Livni also expressed the same view as Netanyahu
Both Livni and Netanyahu as well as past Israeli leaders however, have carried on the pretence that whereas one cannot negotiate with the likes of Hamas, they can do so with the “moderate” Abbas. It is nonsense of course as Abbas/Fatah while not perhaps being religiously devout as Hamas, is certain equally devout in his Jew/Israel hatred and dreams for Israel’s ultimate demise, not to mention that Abbas has only gone through the motions of negotiating, but has not negotiated. Whatever he and his predecessor have promised and agreed to have been honoured more in the breach.
Unless one is advocating a wholesale forced or otherwise induced evacuation of Palestinians from J & S, it is hard to conceive of any pleace deal that does not contemplate a 2 state solution. J & S are of sufficient size for a terrorist base, but hardly sufficient to sustain a state. Just one more wrinkle in the fabric of peace negotiations that cannot be ironed out.
Right you are sonnyboy. Why does the world insist that only Israel can bring about peace? How is Israel magically supposed to bring about peace with enemies who’s ideology, rooted in the koran, sura and hadiths, is to reject the existence of a sovereign Jewish state and commit genocide against Jews?
Livni, the would-be fashion model, has the same gifted insight as US President Calvin Coolidge who once said, “when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results”.
Has anyone checked her birth certificate. I believe that she was born an Arab.
“Israel must take the lead in the diplomatic process…”
We have heard this over and over again, but it is never followed by ‘how’ Israel is to take the lead…which specific actions are expected of Israel? They never say. And that is because any action that would resound with the Arabs would approach suicide for the Jews…
So all this ‘ its up to Israel’ stuff is baloney.
I volunteer to give the final shove!
Children of the revisionists are quite disappointing.
the arabs do not want peace with israel no matter what concessions are given to t hem–be realistic!!
Can’t we dump Livni off an aircraft carrier into the middile of the Gulf of Somethingorother?