Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni tells Channel 2 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bowed to pressure from right wing activists, after he authorized 300 units in Beit El while demonstrators gathered to protest the razing of two structures there.
MK Tzipi Livni of the Zionist Union party seen during a party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 4, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
“Today is a sad day for the State of Israel,” Livni says, adding that the Jewish state suffered “intolerable harm because of some private contractor” — a reference to Meir Dreinoff, who constructed the two units built on private Palestinian land.
Responding to remarks by Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev who intimated that the Supreme Court should be razed for green-lighting the demolition in Beit El, Livni says that the “Supreme Court must show the light and the way for a state that forgets the rule of law.”
“We have a Supreme Court in Jerusalem but no government in Jerusalem,” Livni laments, attacking Netanyahu for “caving” to right wing demonstrators.
Turning her sights on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Livni accuses her of warning settler leaders of the impending demolition notice in advance, which Livni likens to “warning a criminal that police are coming to arrest him.”
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