Livni: Incorrect reference
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Livni: Don't link Iran to Holocaust
Opposition chair criticizes PM for referring to Holocaust when speaking of Iran despite similar statement she made while serving as FM
Opposition chairman Tzipi Livni criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reference to the Holocaust when speaking of the Iranian nuclear threat, despite a statement she had made to the same effect while serving as foreign minister.
"The use of terms such as 'Holocaust' is problematic," she said during a speech at the Fischer Brothers Strategic Studies Institute on Thursday.
"It's incorrect in what it relays. Israel of 2009 is a strong and powerful country and can make decisions. That's why we have to be clear when all options are on the table. However the reference to the Holocaust is incorrect regarding the Holocaust itself as well as our nation's ethos."
Livni appeared to be responding to Netanyahu's Holocaust Remembrance Day speech at Yad Vashem, in which he said, "We won't allow Holocaust deniers to perform another Holocaust on the Jewish people. This is the State of Israel's top priority."
However, during a speech Livni made as foreign minister before the UN Assembly in 2007, she said the United Nations was established in order to prevent an additional Holocaust.
"These are the values we expect of this organization, which cannot function efficiently due to the direct attack on the very values it was established in order to defend," she said.
