Israel is prepared to capitulate to some Arab demands and make further withdrawals from land liberated in the 1967 Six Day War, Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni said to an Egyptian newspaper in an interview that coincided with the 40th anniversary of the war.
In the interview with government-controlled Al Ahram, Livni told her interviewer "I can assure you that Gaza is not the last step, we are convinced that to establish a Palestinian state, we have to withdraw from other areas," she said. "We do not want to control the Palestinians."
This is the first major interview to a foreign media organ that Livni has given since the publication of the Winograd Committee's interim report, which severely censured Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his role in last summer's war against Hizbullah terrorists in the north. The interview was seen by political observers as Livni's “opening shot” in her campaign to wrest control of Kadima from Olmert.
In the interview with government-controlled Al Ahram, Livni told her interviewer "I can assure you that Gaza is not the last step, we are convinced that to establish a Palestinian state, we have to withdraw from other areas," she said. "We do not want to control the Palestinians."
This is the first major interview to a foreign media organ that Livni has given since the publication of the Winograd Committee's interim report, which severely censured Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his role in last summer's war against Hizbullah terrorists in the north. The interview was seen by political observers as Livni's “opening shot” in her campaign to wrest control of Kadima from Olmert.