In the Knesset plenum, Zionist Union MK Tzipi Lini turns to Netanyahu and says they haven’t spoken since he fired her.
“I’m putting aside my anger for what you’re doing to the state,” with recent legislation, she says, in order to talk about terrorism.
“The citizens of Israel have lost their sense of security,” she says.
Livni says bereaved families have requested from her that their relatives be the last victims.
“What are you doing to make them the last ones?” she asks.
Livni addresses Netanyahu’s fence plan, but says “he can’t escape” the question of Israel’s borders.
“Are all the millions of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria part of your Israel? Because they aren’t part of ours,” she says.
Livni accuses Netanyahu of “mimicking Liberman” with the MK suspension bill, which the Yisrael Beytenu leader submitted in the last Knesset.
She says that Netanyahu can thwart the French and Quartet peace initiatives with a series of trust-building steps.
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