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Livni: If Hamas renews rocket fire, it'll get slapped down again
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel, Gaza, Israel News 

Foreign Minister and Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni threatened on Monday that if Hamas renews cross-border rocket fire, Israel will launch another offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group in Gaza.

"If Hamas fires a Qassam [rocket] at Israel, it will get slapped down again, as it got it now and they know this," said Livni.

The foreign minister's comments came a day after Hamas and Israel separately declared cease-fires in Gaza, ending the Israel Defense Forces' 22-day campaign against the group in the coastal territory.
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"[Hamas] knows today what Israel does when it's harmed, the world knows what it does when it's harmed and even accepts this. Therefore, I think they won't do this again soon," the foreign minister told Israel Radio in her first interview since the end of the warfare.

In reference to the cabinet's announcement of a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza late Saturday, Livni said Israel must know when to begin and when to end such an operation.

"This is part of the wisdom that leadership needs to have," said Livni, a prime ministerial hopeful. "When the alternative is to continue when there is little benefit, and then to perhaps sink into the quagmire afterward, this is very unwise."


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      1.   Livni is now playing to the Israeli Jewish electorate 12:47  |  Chris Linthwaite 19/01/09
      2.   Bad attitude 12:58  |  Harald 19/01/09
      3.   To Chris Linthwaite 13:14  |  Phil 19/01/09
      4.   Livni: Retaliation for each QASSAM-Good,but why only NOW? BIBI- 14:42  |  Vittorio 19/01/09
      5.   Don`t presume, Phil 15:14  |  Murray 19/01/09
      6.   Livni and a "slap" 15:29  |  DT 19/01/09
      7.   Hamas is Gaza is oppressed 16:11  |  Bitin Dawg 19/01/09
      8.   I did not hear tough talk like this for eight years 16:23  |  TOMY 19/01/09
      9.   Murray from Italy , the rationalization 16:32  |  TOMY 19/01/09
      10.   To: Murray in Milan 16:33  |  Angel 19/01/09
      11.   Accept what? 18:40  |  Alexander 19/01/09
      12.   #5 Murray of Milan....Wars will always cause dead civilians 18:58  |  Lynn 19/01/09
      13.   #11 Alexander of Peru...tell your Hamas buddies to stop 19:01  |  Lynn 19/01/09
      14.   Absolutely 19:20  |  Nadia 19/01/09
      15.   One of the things at stake here... 19:53  |  Colin Wright 19/01/09
      16.   look at africa 20:50  |  thats starvation 19/01/09
      17.   So Be It 21:08  |  Douglas Fireman 19/01/09
      18.   Phil 22:11  |  Emad 19/01/09
      19.   #11 Alexander from Peru 22:11  |  Mottie 19/01/09
      20.   If Hamas Renews Rocket Fire... 22:31  |  ROBOCOP 19/01/09
      21.   For Lynn # 12 23:55  |  IntrerestedObserver 19/01/09
      22.   Phil you can presume that most of the world is with Israel 00:03  |  Steve 20/01/09
      23.   Wisdom or amnesia 00:19  |  MiKita 20/01/09
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