Israel Matzav

Livni: Kerry first foreign diplomat to defend Israeli interests in the international arena

Israeli Justice Minister and chief negotiator bottle washer Tzipi Livni has gone all-in with the American 'peace plan' calling those in the government who disagree with her 'hypocrites.'

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni blasted on Thursday Israeli "hypocrites" whose actions could threaten to derail the ongoing peace process with the Palestinians, Israel Radio cited her as saying Thursday at a conference at Bar-Ilan University.

There are critics in the government who claim to support peace, but in actuality use the argument of security as a cover for ideological opposition to a peace agreement, the chief Israeli negotiator said.

"I am ready to fight with the world on the important issues for all of us, to convince of the righteousness of Zionism, and Israel's security needs and preservation of the settlement in Israeli territory," Livini said.

However, she added that she was "not ready for us to pay the price for the ideological minority that prefers isolated settlement blocks."

Who is talking about 'isolated settlement blocks'? Forget for just one minute that none of the 'settlement blocks' is isolated.... Has anyone heard the 'Palestinians' concede one iota on the status of Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem? On their self-proclaimed 'right of return'? On recognizing that Israel is a Jewish state and that any deal made now will be the end of the conflict? No, no, no and no.

But if you want to see how big a fool Livni is....

Firing back at critics, Livni lauded Kerry as the first foreign diplomat to defend Israeli interests in the international arena.

Perhaps she never heard of Daniel Patrick Moynihan or John Bolton.

Arutz Sheva adds:

Without naming names, Livni said that ministers who are not prepared to concede land are “hypocrites” – and, if they get their way, will ultimately destroy Israel as a Jewish state.

“We all want peace. But there is a price that whoever really wants peace must pay,” she declared, speaking at an event at the Bar Ilan University Law Department.

“This is the choice we have: if we want to protect the Jewish, democratic state - or the entire land of Israel, which will not be Jewish, and will not be democratic,” she argued. The only way to keep Israel both Jewish and democratic is through negotiations for the creation of an Arab state in Judea and Samaria, she said.

“If we don’t come to a decision, the world will decide for us,” warned Livni, who heads the Israeli negotiating team.

Sorry Tzipi, but your beloved demographic time bomb has long since been disproved.  Here's Caroline Glick.

Still today, Kerry, Livni, Lapid and their fellow travelers seek to intimidate us by constantly telling us that continued Israeli control over Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem will bring about Israel’s demographic demise.

But the lie at the heart of their argument is no longer possible to ignore.

As demographic expert Yoram Ettinger wrote last week in Yisrael Hayom, Jewish Israeli fertility rates are higher than Palestinian fertility rates in Judea and Samaria. In 2013, the Palestinian fertility rate was 2.91 children per woman and the Israeli Jewish fertility rate was 3.04 children per woman.

Today Jews make up 62-66 percent of the population in Judea, Samaria and sovereign Israel. With a two to one majority, a higher birthrate, and positive immigration rates, far from being a strategic threat to Israel’s national viability, demographics are one of Israel’s strategic assets.

The only threat to Israel’s demographic stability is the two-state formula. A Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem would permit the unlimited immigration of millions of foreign Arabs into its territory. Rather than securing Israel’s Jewish majority, a Palestinian state would place millions of hostile Arabs on the outskirts of a rump Israel’s major cities.

With their threat of demographic ruin losing its traction with the public, purveyors of the two-state plan now raise the threat of economic strangulation and ruin at every opportunity.

Indeed.

There is one Israeli hypocrite and only one in this process. His name is Binyamin Netanyahu and he's still having trouble making up his mind which side he supports. He should never have put Livni in charge of negotiations. It's time to cut her loose even if it means her party leaves the coalition.

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Caroline Glick, demography, John Kerry, Middle East peace process, settlement blocs, Tzipi Livni, Yoram Ettinger

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:28 PM