In response to Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni's Speech in the Knesset this afternoon, Minister Erdan responded:
"The Same politician that went in the aftermath of positions that she never told us on them, She went and assisted the former prime minister (Ariel Sharon) in uprooting people from their homes in contradiction to the promises made during the elections, She also advised PM Sharon how to contravene the Internal Likud members vote".
Erdan added that Kadima, the former ruling party, had "from day one blamed us for all the political and economic destruction and ruin that you yourselves had left behind."
He said the prime minister still did not fully believe the two-state solution was "right for Israel", but that he "understands that it is the right thing to say".
"Netanyahu doesn't really believe that two states, Jewish and Palestinian, even demilitarized, are in Israel's best interest," Erdan said. "But the prime minister has encountered the real world, to his surprise, which has unfortunately cast Israel in the role of a dissenter, and he understood at this late stage that he had to talk about two states."
In remarks to lawmakers at the Knesset, the former foreign minister accused the premier of paying lip service to the concept of a Palestinian state.
"I, like everyone, heard the speech at Bar-Ilan University [in which Netanyahu said Israel would agree to a demilitarized Palestinian state] and I didn't know whether to be happy or not."
"The prime minister still does not really believe that this is the right path for Israel but he understands that this is the right thing to say," Livni said. "'The world is demanding it, so I have to say it' This is how Netanyahu explained it to his faction members.
She added that the public was despairing of the coalition and that "the government's failures are exposed to all."
The Opposition leader said Netanyahu had reneged on all of his promises in the fields of politics and economics, and criticized his speech Sunday in which he said that "for the first time we have reached a national agreement on the two states for two peoples concept."
Livni said, "The prime minister's text yesterday was the height of cynicism, if not the height of hutzpah". She explained that "Netanyahu is the man who up until now has been the obstacle to any agreement on this issue."
