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Livni: Israel will no longer show restraint when attacked

by 158 | January 5, 2009 at 02:41 pm

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Restraint is good and should be applied

but when rockets fall on civilians with

no pretense at military targets, then it

is time to end the threat with whatever

force necessary.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Monday that the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip was intended to "change the equation" in the region, whereby Hamas fires at Israel and Israel responds with restraint.

Speaking to reporters alongside her counterparts from the Czech Republic, France and Sweden, Livni defended Israel's incursion into the Hamas-ruled coastal territory as a form of "legitimate self-defense."

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The foreign minister, who returned from Paris on Monday following talks with French officials, added that Israel has no choice but to retaliate when attacked

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gahooch

at 15:27 on January 5th, 2009

You go, girl!

gerrypopplestone

at 19:52 on January 5th, 2009

Restraint is good and should be applied, but when Israel insists on building houses for Israelis on Palestinian land, in direct opposition to UN resolutions and Israeli agreements to stop, then it is time to end this threat of their continuing, regardless of the effects!