Sunday, February 08, 2009

Netanyahu: Livni will cede Golan Heights


Feb. 8, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

"Jerusalem will not be divided and Gamla will not fall again," Likud chairman and prime ministerial candidate Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday during a tour of the Golan Heights.

Netanyahu arrived in the north to participate in Tu Bishvat tree planting accompanied by Likud members Moshe Ya'alon, Yossi Peled, Benni Begin and Efi Eitam. "If Kadima wins," he said, "we will not have the Golan Heights and will only continue ceding territory. Peace is made with the strong, not the weak. Israel with the Golan Heights is a strong state and not a weak state giving away its assets."

Netanyahu was accompanied by his son Avner. When planting the eucalyptus spruce, Netanyahu said "my son will bring his children here in a few years and tell them that their grandfather planted the tree that will grow and extend its root for many years to come, just as we have been living in the Golan for many years."

In a jab at Foreign Minister and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, Begin mentioned his father, former prime minister Menachem Begin: "When we were toddlers, they taught us you do not involve your parents, but I decided to say this nevertheless: When we made peace with Egypt, Menachem Begin taught us that when you need to return territory for peace - under certain conditions - you do it. But this same Menachem Begin also continued to enforce Israeli law and sovereignty in the Golan Heights... both decisions had wide public acceptance," he said.

Begin was referring to the frequent mention of former MK Eitan Livni, Livni's father, in Kadima's televised campaign.
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