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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=295610
Former Foreign Minister Livni: Keeping Settlement Blocs a Requirement for Peace
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Hoffman - Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni told foreign ambassadors Wednesday that Israel keeping settlements was a requirement for achieving peace with the Palestinian Authority. "We have settlement blocs close to the Green Line, and the only way for the conflict with the Palestinians to end is for Israel to keep them. Any pre-agreement by the international community to a withdrawal to 1967 borders before the talks occur makes it difficult to negotiate. It was clear in the talks I conducted with the Palestinians that there would not be return to 1967 borders." Livni said she was frustrated as an Israeli when the international community compared casualties caused by the IDF, which acts to defend Israel and target terrorists, to those killed by terrorists who target civilians. "The message terrorists need to hear is that there are things that the international community considers illegitimate," she said.