Livni: Israel wants to reach peace agreement, but not at any cost
In a conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is in charge of negotiations with the Palestinians, said: "We want to reach an agreement, but not at all cost." She added that "the possibility for the Palestinians to have a real state goes through the negotiation room and not in the UN." "There are those in this country who are disappointed that there is no partner [for peace] on the Palestinian side," Livni said . "The point is not to expose the other side's face, but to reach an agreement with them."During her speech on Monday, Livni also directly addressed the Israeli right's rejection of Palestinian aspirations to statehood. "I've heard in recent days various sources in Israel who said that Jews didn't dream for 2,000 years in order to give away part of their land," she said, referring to Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett. . "They also didn't dream of an isolated state that rules over others. There's a price for arriving at an agreement, but the price of not arriving at an agreement is much higher." Peace negotiations are "something we need to do because I believe it's the new vision of Zionism," Livni said.