PM: Focus efforts on fending off Goldstone threat

"We are facing very large challenges. The first is renewing peace talks; they should be renewed without any preconditions," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Likud faction meeting on Monday.

Referring to the Goldstone Report, Barak told a Labor faction meeting, "We must keep supporting IDF personnel and decision-makers."

Shortly before the Knesset's winter session was due to commence, Opposition leader Tzipi Livni told a Kadima faction meeting, "During the last Knesset session we proved that we are an alternative (to the Likud-led government). In the coming session we will advance issues that should be promoted by anyone who has Israel's best interests at heart, such as changing the form of government. "