9-23-2014 Surrounded by Islamist brutality, says Tzipi Livni, Israel can’t just ‘huddle into itself’- David Horovitz [interview with Israeli Justice Minister and chief negotiator] Times of Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/surrounded-by-islamist-brutality-says-tzipi-livni-israel-cant-just-huddle-into-itself/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Livni is] adamant that a serious effort at peacemaking is vital to Israel's security, to the partnerships Israel seeks elsewhere in the region, to the maintenance of a strong relationship with the United States, and to Israel's very capacity to defend itself against the rising tide of brutal Islamic extremism….

 

In our conversation... the justice minister was both nuanced and candid in tracing the collapse of the US-mediated peace effort she led on Israel's behalf until this spring, outspoken in her criticism of Israel's settlement policies, unsparing over her grievances with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and emphatic about the centrality of a credible, pro-peace policy to Israel's capacity to retain international legitimacy.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

 

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