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Livni: All parties that support peace must unite under Kadima
By Reuters
Tags: ehud olmert, kadima 

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Thursday that she continues to hope for a peace deal with the Palestinians this year and called on all parties that support peace to unite.

Speaking to reporters after meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Livni said she had been striving to reach an agreement with the Palestinians this year.

"We continue to do so," she said, echoing comments from the White House on Wednesday. Livni is Israel's chief negotiator in the U.S.-brokered negotiations with the Palestinians aimed at getting a comprehensive peace agreement.
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Livni did not directly comment on opposition Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu's call for snap elections after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his resignation when his Kadima party chooses a new leader in September.

However, she indicated that her party wanted to form a government without an early election, calling on all parties that support an agenda of strengthening Israel's security and combating existing threats from abroad to unite under the centrist Kadima party.

"Kadima is the party that should lead those processes," she said in Hebrew.

"I will continue to call on any party that can be a partner to this agenda and could represent those interests to put aside all these internal calculations" and join Kadima, she added.

In the short term, she said, changes on the domestic political scene will have no impact on Israeli policy.

"The fact that there are internal changes does not change the fact that a threat exists," she said. "It doesn't change the interests of Israel that we are obligated to represent."


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      1.   Ditzi Livni 20:48  |  Nemesis 31/07/08
      2.   livni want to be the new leader of kadima 20:50  |  paulo2005 31/07/08
      3.   Only An Idiot Would Heed Her Call 21:21  |  Tod Zuckerman 31/07/08
      4.   Well, she`s obviously not loosing time.... 21:28  |  Esther 31/07/08
      5.   No one should unite under Livni 21:58  |  Jonathan S 31/07/08
      6.   Kadima is `Corruption` and the `Mediocre`..... 22:08  |  Dolly 31/07/08
      7.   #2. Paulo -- What bomb? 22:19  |  Dogpile 31/07/08
      8.   Re Johathan #5 22:39  |  Esther 31/07/08
      9.   Re Dolly #6 22:44  |  Esther 31/07/08
      10.   Long live Livni ! 22:45  |  Akiva P 31/07/08
      11.   To Tod 22:48  |  Hunk 31/07/08
      12.   Re Nemesis #1 22:51  |  Esther 31/07/08
      13.   Livni at the UN 22:54  |  Chris 31/07/08
      14.   The Peace of Islamist-Jihadists 23:10  |  Brod 31/07/08
      15.   OUT with Kadima trash now! 23:14  |  Yaakov K. 31/07/08
      16.   Support Piece? 23:17  |  Otto E. 31/07/08
      17.   No to Livni, and No to Kadima 23:28  |  Paul 31/07/08
      18.   Livni will soon be history as will Kadima 23:30  |  redmike 31/07/08
      19.   #13 - you might have given details, n`est ce pas! 23:35  |  redmike 31/07/08
      20.   Tzipi the knife 23:40  |  Jonathan S 31/07/08
      21.   #8 - there is nothing misogynistic in #5s remark 23:44  |  redmike 31/07/08
      22.   Esther #12 23:45  |  Nemesis 31/07/08
      23.   All Parties that Support Capitulation Must Unite under Kadima ! 23:49  |  Yisrael 31/07/08
      24.   "All parties that support peace must unite under `Kadima`?"... 00:12  |  bat yam 01/08/08
      25.   livni - olmert in drag 01:35  |  Arie 01/08/08
      26.   More Kadima lies 02:32  |  Frank 01/08/08
      27.   HERE COMES MERT`S CLONE WASTING NO TIME IN STEALING MORE ISRAELIS 03:18  |  glenna 01/08/08
      28.   peace 03:30  |  colin 01/08/08
      29.   chris #13 05:11  |  mike 01/08/08
      30.   Linvi & Olmert must both resign they are defeatists 05:57  |  HENRY MANN 01/08/08
      31.   she is not that bad 06:12  |  kaled 01/08/08
      32.   A United Kadima 07:51  |  Shimon Cleopas 01/08/08
      33.   # 13 Redmike. # 29 Mike 10:05  |  Chris 01/08/08
      34.   Kadima, the uncurable disease. 13:39  |  Akram Zekaria 01/08/08
      35.   Livni: All parties that support DEFEAT unite under Kadima! Ha-Ha! 14:04  |  Mustafa Natsheh 01/08/08
      36.   POLL IS GOOD! LET LIVNI UNSEAT OLMERT,THEN LEAD KADIMA TO DEFEAT) 14:05  |  POLITICAL EXPERT 01/08/08
      37.   peace will only be possible without murderers 16:26  |  mosiach 01/08/08
      38.   You go girl 14:20  |  Randy 02/08/08
      39.   It is Av not Adar 06:17  |  Yosef 03/08/08
      40.   free barghouti 14:00  |  bobby 03/08/08
      41.   Peace 23:03  |  Jeff 03/08/08
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