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Shocka: Tzipi Livni also demanded recognition of Israel as a Jewish state

Remember how the Netanyahu government supposedly killed the 'peace process' by demanding that the 'Palestinians' recognize Israel as a Jewish state? Well, I'm sure you'll all be shocked - just shocked - to hear that then-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni demanded the same thing during the Olmert government. It's all there in Palileaks.

TL: [Visibly angered.] I think that we can use another session – about what it means to be a Jew and that it is more than just a religion. But if you want to take us back to 1947 -- it won’t help. Each state constituting the homeland for its people and the fulfillment of their national aspirations and self determination in their own territory. Israel the state of the Jewish people -- and I would like to emphasize the meaning of “its people” is the Jewish people -- with Jerusalem the united and undivided capital of Israel and of the Jewish people for 3007 years... [The Palestinian team protests.] You asked for it. [AA: We said East Jerusalem!] …and Palestine for the Palestinian people. We did not want to say that there is a “Palestinian people” but we’ve accepted your right to self determination.

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Elder comments that the Guardian never mentioned this document in their coverage, but they definitely saw it because they cherry picked one sentence from it. Which is all true, but I think it's only fair to add another observation: this is Livni demanding Palestinian recognition of a Jewish State, a year and a half before Netanyahu, newly installed as prime minister, raised the exact same demand and was universally condemned for daring to destroy the peace process with his outlandish position.

Hmmm.

Labels: Ehud K. Olmert, Israel is a Jewish state, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian denial of Jewish history, Tzipi Livni

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:27 AM