Livni: ‘Leave Us Alone’

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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni yesterday criticized a plan to expand a Jewish settlement in the West Bank as unhelpful but insisted it would not prejudice a final peace deal under negotiation with Palestinians.  The plan announced earlier yesterday to build hundreds of

Livni told students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “It’s not the Israeli government policy to expand settlements these days.”  The Foreign Minister characterized the planned construction as private building and “not dramatic”. Homes in Jerusalem suburbs sparked an international outcry, including comments of displeasure from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.She said Israel needed little world involvement in mediating a peace deal, and hoped moderate Israelis and Palestinians were determined enough to do so on their own.

She added, “I think the world should leave it to us. There is no need to push us. It is about our lives.”

Re-posted with permission from www.lekarev.org.