Zionist Union co-leader Tzipi Livni says the two-state solution is a necessity and not “a gift to the PA or the US president.”
Tzipi Livni and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice President of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization, in Jerusalem on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy Conference of Presidents)
Speaking in Jerusalem, at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations annual Leadership Mission to Israel, Livni says that Israelis must decide between two visions, Greater Israel, one country where Palestinians will not have full rights, or a two-state solution.
“We will never give up Jerusalem, we will keep the settlement blocs and there is no right of return for Palestinian refugees,” she says, adding that uprooting Israelis from the Gaza Strip was one of the “toughest and most difficult decisions” of her life. And yet, she added, “Is there anyone who wants to replant Israelis in Gush Katif again?” Anyone who wishes to do so, she said, would never want any kind of agreement with the Palestinians.
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