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Livni: Kadima primary – battle for Israel's character

Kadima leader tells Pluralism Forum conference her rival in chairmanship race approached haredi parties behind her back after general elections

Less than 36 hours before the Kadima primaries are scheduled to kick off, party leader Tzipi Livni said "Tuesday's political battle is not an internal party issue, it is a battle that will determine how Israel will look in the future, whether the current coalition will remain in power and whether we (Kadima) will be making the dramatic decisions for the State of Israel."

 

Speaking Sunday evening at a conference in Kfar Saba dedicated to the relations between religion and state, the Opposition leader said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was systematically avoiding any decision-making.

 

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"The status quo, with regards to all issues, is not a value. There are things that were valid during the state's inception, but the discussion on these issues today is open. Small groups that have taken over the agenda do not allow the majority to make decisions," she said.

 

Addressing the High Court's dramatic decision to order the State to evacuate the West Bank outpost of Migron by August 1, Livni said "the idea that we (government) will find a nearby hill where they (Migron settlers) will be able to realize their (political) viewpoint goes against my outlook, and it also contradicts what the prime minister began to speak of – the two-state principle."

 

"It is immoral to uproot these people and relocate them to a nearby hill when we may have to uproot them again in the framework of a future political decision. Instead they should be told 'the High Court has ruled so you will have to set up another community in a non-controversial location'," Livni said.

 

Livni also took advantage of the conference to take a jab at MK Shaul Mofaz, her rival in the Kadima chairmanship race.

 

"When I was conducting negotiations on the formation of a government, someone approached the ultra-Orthodox and told them 'don't worry, we cannot establish a coalition without you'. That was Shaul Mofaz, who appeared here before me and asked for your trust, no less," she said.

 

Livni asked The Pluralism Forum, which organized the conference, to translate its influence within Kadima into "a vote for me."

 

 

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