See here for previous comments regarding Israel’s Foreing Minister, Tzipi Livni.
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni seems to be preparing to back up the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following the publication of the Winograd report on the failures of the Israeli army in the 33-day war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, according to the Israeli daily newspaper Ma’ariv.
Analysts expect the Winograd report to result in the collapse of Olmert’s Kadima party if Labour Party chair Ehud Barak and Avigdor Liberman from the Israeli Beteno decide to take advantage of the report.
Livni provoked a crisis between Egypt and Israel last week when she claimed that the Egyptian authorities had not exerted enough efforts to combat the smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip through underground border tunnels. This irritated the Egyptians and Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak was swiftly despatched to Egypt to calm them down.
During a meeting with dozens of American students in Jerusalem on Thursday, Livini extended her criticism to the whole world when she dismissed the international community’s calls on Israel to stop settlement constructions in Jerusalem. [It’s everyone’s fault but Israel’s!]
“The world asks us about settlements and sometimes criticizes us. Does the world know about the killing of two Israelis in Hebron last week by Palestinian security officers? We realize that the Palestinian dreams of an independent state should materialize, but on condition that Israeli security becomes a Palestinian interest as it is an Israeli interest,” Livni explained.
She added that the international community’s resolutions often rely on imagination rather than on reality and historic justice. [Chutzpah!]
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