Netanyahu's associates slam Livni
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Netanyahu associates: Livni's pathetic
Likud rejects newly elected Kadima chairman's call for unity government, pushes for elections
Likud blasts Livni: Likud officials Monday night dismissed Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's call to form a national unity government in the wake of her Kadima primaries win. A statement issued by the party urged Livni to "allow Israel's citizens to decide who should lead them, and in what way."
However, Likud officials did not make do with rejecting Livni's call and proceeded to launch a scathing attack on the newly elected Kadima chairman.
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"Livni's call on Likud to join an emergency government was a desperate attempt to portray Netanyahu as someone who only cares about his own interests," a close associate of the Likud chairman said. "This attempt is pathetic."
'Right now we need elections'
Bibi's associates argued that Livni had no legitimacy to form a government because she won the Kadima primaries by only hundreds of votes."Livni was never an alternative, and will never be one," a Netanyahu associate said. "She is a party to the Second Lebanon War failure. All the responsible parties went home and only she stayed, as if she was not part of the failed decision-making process."
Meanwhile, a Likud source also slammed Labor party leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
"He's in the worst situation, because he doesn't know what he's doing," the Likud source said. "His political conduct is unclear and he's been conducting himself clumsily. Barak is indeed a worthy individual, yet he better decide what he wishes to do. What we need right now is elections."
