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Nov 6, 2008
Does Livni not listen to herself?
Livni today said the following:
So she can reject the option of talking to the enemy, but other people cannot? Perhaps she should earn herself some credentials before she starts telling other people, specifically presidents of the USA, what they should and should not do....
"We live in a neighborhood in which sometimes dialogue - in a situation where you have brought sanctions, and you then shift to dialogue - is liable to be interpreted as weakness," Livni said when asked on Israel Radio about policy change toward Tehran in an Obama administration.Wasn't she just criticizing Netanyahu, the Likud, and the Right for her assuming they will reject continuing talks with the Palestinians? If I remember correctly, she even said that peace has never been advanced by saying "no".
Her remarks sounded the first note of dissonance with Obama by a senior member of the Israeli government since the Democrat's sweeping victory over Republican candidate John McCain in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.
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Asked if she supported any U.S. dialogue with Iran, Livni replied: "The answer is no."
So she can reject the option of talking to the enemy, but other people cannot? Perhaps she should earn herself some credentials before she starts telling other people, specifically presidents of the USA, what they should and should not do....
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Obviously not.
ReplyDeleteLivni is not interested in what makes sense; only in what will get her and keep her in power.
At least in that sense she is consistent with the Kadima manifesto, which has two main objectives:
1) Get into power
2) Stay there
If you take her words literally, there is no inconsistency.
ReplyDelete1) She said "sometimes", not always
2) She was talking about switching from sanctions to dialog, which does not apply to the Palestinians (Fatah at least) since we have never really had sanctions against them (at least not for the past 15 years)
That doesn't mean her Palestinian policies are correct, it just means they are technically consistent with her Iran policy.