Livni knocks PM for invoking Holocaust at UN

oberliner

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Mon Sep-28-09 03:35 PM
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Livni knocks PM for invoking Holocaust at UN

Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni became the first Israeli politician to criticize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's landmark speech to the United Nations, in an interview she gave to Channel 2 on Saturday afternoon.

Netanyahu made a mistake when he invoked the horrors of the Holocaust in his criticism of Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Livni said. The comparison could harm Israel's diplomatic efforts and make Israelis question their security, she said.

"We have to be careful not to encourage the world to think that Israel was established because of the Holocaust," Livni said. "When Obama said so in Egypt , there was a justified uproar. It is wrong to compare any event in history to the Holocaust, because it minimizes the most horrible historic event that happened to the Jewish people. It also makes Israeli citizens feel less secure. The Jews of Israel in 2009 are not the Jews of Europe in 1939, and I've said this to Netanyahu."

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Violet_Crumble

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Mon Sep-28-09 03:49 PM
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1. I agree with Livni on that....

The comparison could harm Israel's diplomatic efforts and make Israelis question their security, she said.

I kind of suspect that the comparison was made in order to fearmonger and get Israelis questioning their security. And she's right in saying that it's wrong to compare any event to the Holocaust, and I think that's especially so now that the Holocaust is slipping out of being in living memory and it becomes easier for newer generations to go 'meh' and get all bored when they learn about it....

If you haven't read it, Tom Segev's book 'The Seventh Million: the Israelis and the Holocaust is a really good book on how Israel has been affected by the Holocaust....

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oberliner

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Mon Sep-28-09 04:12 PM
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2. So do I

Holocaust comparisons are not instructive here at all.

In fact, they are far too often the 'go-to' analogy in a myriad of different circumstances.

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shaayecanaan

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Mon Sep-28-09 06:58 PM
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4. It's all downhill from there...

Livni also criticized her party's former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, for the far-reaching offer he made to the Palestinians that he revealed an interview to the BBC last week. She said that she, unlike Olmert, would not allow the influx of more than a thousand Palestinian refugees to within Israel's final borders.

"I had differences of opinion with on how to manage the diplomatic process and on its content," she said. "For me, there is no right of return, not symbolic and not partial. I would not even accept the entrance to Israel of a single refugee, and the Palestinians and the Arab world know this."

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Violet_Crumble

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Mon Sep-28-09 10:15 PM
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7. Yeah, I noticed that. I disagree strongly with her on that...

There's a lot I strongly disagree with when it comes to Livni. After all, she's the person who claimed there was no humanitarian crisis in Gaza...

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LeftishBrit

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Mon Sep-28-09 04:17 PM
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3. Livni is quite right on this.

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IndianaGreen

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Mon Sep-28-09 07:53 PM
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5. That's my woman!

Kadima won more seats than Likud in the Knesset, yet that old man Shimon Peres asked Bibi to form a coalition government. Labour politicians all suck!

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azurnoir

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Mon Sep-28-09 09:09 PM
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6. Good for Livni at least this one time n/t

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