Tzipy Livni: Not Just a Diplomatic Lightweight, but a Diplomatic Underweight

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Foreign Minister Tzipy Livni claims that the entire world accepts Israeli stance and;

…senior diplomatic officials estimate that the Americans will back the Israeli perception, as it has been presented over the past month and a half in which Livni has been heading the negotiations.

But then again, Livni and the entire Israeli foreign ministry, after years under tutelege of Peres, Sylvan Shalom and now Livni, are now collectively diplomatic underweights and neophites.

Consider this exchange between Livni and former PA Prime Minister, and now chief PA “negotiator (sic)” Ahmed Qureia;

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asked the head of the Palestinian Authority’s negotiating team, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), to accept Israel as a Jewish state, reminding him that it was accepted as such by UN Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947, for the partition of the Land of Israel.

According to Ahmed Tibi, a member of Israel’s Knesset who used to be an aide to PLO founder Yasser Arafat, Abu Ala answered: “let us implement [Resolution] 181 first and we shall talk.” Tibi recorded the exchange in an article he wrote for Arab newspaper Kul el-Arab.

Amru Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League said late Thursday night that the Arab countries will not offer Israel “normalization for free.”

“There is no such thing as normalization for free,” Moussa told reporters after a meeting of 11 Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo…. “Arabs are going to participate in the (Annapolis) meeting, to show support for the Palestinians, based on the Arab peace initiative,” he explained.

Neophite, underweight; the fact is that Livni’s naivete’ in verbally and consciously walking into a visible, obvious ambush-in-waiting by initiating the exchange equating partition with recognition shows that she has no clue and is a study in total, utter stupidity. MB

To read the entire report, click; PA Negotiator: Go Back to 1947 Partition Plan, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)