Livni says she won’t let outsiders judge IDF

On Memorial Day, Tzipi Livni says Israel is “misunderstood” and pledges she won’t let people outside of Israel claim the IDF is not a moral army.

“The State of Israel is misunderstood in the world. To those who put a question mark over Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, to them we say there is nothing more just than the values in the name of which the fallen fought, equipped with a moral fiber that cannot be questioned. This is an ongoing struggle for the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and in this struggle of wars and terror, citizens paid with their lives — children were hurt from terror, and intrepid soldiers went out to defend its citizens,” she writes in a statement.

“We will not let outsiders judge the IDF through a distorted lens, because the IDF is a moral army and we won’t let anyone claim otherwise.”