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Last update - 15:46 07/09/2009
Livni: Netanyahu a small-time leader who can't make decisions
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Tags: Kadima, Tzipi Livni 

Opposition leader and Kadima party chief Tzipi Livni blasted the Netanyahu government on Monday, calling its policy amateurish and indecisive and denying she had any intentions of having Kadima join the government.

"Netanyahu's policies are the policies of a small-time politician", Livni told Army Radio Monday, adding that Netanyahu "at his core, doesn't want to decide" on what his stance on final status issues will be.

"The decision isn't on the question of [settlement] construction. The decision is whether or not there will be two states here for two peoples - things that Kadima has already declared its support for," Livni said.
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"It's not just that he doesn't make fateful decisions - he doesn't want to make them. He makes do with speeches and photo-ops."

In July, Livni criticized Netanyahu's performance in his first 100 days in office, calling the prime minister's new-found support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "the height of hypocrisy."

"For the first time in world history, not only is the opposition doing all it can to bring down the government, the government is working to bring down the opposition. We have not yet seen this."

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      1.   He sounds just like Gordon Brown! 11:53  |  Manny Goldstein 07/09/09
      2.   Livni 14:41  |  Brod 07/09/09
      3.   Sour grape that must stop ! 14:48  |  Akram Zekaria 07/09/09
      4.   LIvni speech 15:10  |  Larry 07/09/09
      5.   I honestly believe 15:49  |  Chris Linthwaite 07/09/09
      6.   Netanahu 15:49  |  Philip 07/09/09
      7.   Livni who ? 15:54  |  Nora Tel Aviv 07/09/09
      8.   observation 15:58  |  potobac 07/09/09
      9.   What did anyone expect? 16:27  |  Mark Lincoln 07/09/09
      10.   Mrs. Livni, please keep your decisions to yourself 17:13  |  Vitaly 07/09/09
      11.   Very True 17:25  |  Vladek 07/09/09
      12.   Ms.Livni is possibly right! 17:51  |  Attila 07/09/09
      13.   Livni the irrelevant 19:53  |  Michael 07/09/09
      14.   This from the Queen of Surrender and defeat 21:20  |  Josiah J. Ben David 07/09/09
      15.   Not surprised by Livni`s shameful petty reaction 23:41  |  Dwido 07/09/09
      16.   Constructive? 14:25  |  Henrik 08/09/09
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