Sunday, June 28, 2009

Mofaz:'Livni can't make tough decisions'

(Jpost)."She's a nice person, you can sit and have a drink with her, but we're not in a club; she just doesn't have the ability to make tough decisions," Kadima No. 2 Shaul Mofaz told Army Radio Sunday morning, referring to party leader Tzipi Livni who, heading the largest opposition party, also serves as head of the opposition.

"An absurd situation has arisen," Mofaz continued. "The voter wanted Labor in the opposition and Kadima in the government, but Livni sent Kadima to the opposition and Labor into the government."

"One the one hand, [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu was dragged along by pressure from [US President Barack] Obama and [French President Nicholas] Sarkozy, but on the other hand she [Livni] is stuck on the whole Annapolis issue - a conference whose main significance was in the sheer fact that it took place."

He called on Livni to agree to join a unity government if it accepts the principle of "two states for two peoples," although he said that currently the government was "avoiding a diplomatic solution."