#1 Min. Livni declines to reveal position on Palestinian state

Aaron Lerner Date: 19 November 2002 IMRA contacted the office of Minister
of Regional Cooperation Tzipi Livni this morning asking if Livni, who
supports the candidacy of PM Ariel Sharon, opposes the creation of a
Palestinian state.

In the early afternoon IMRA received the following message via IMRA's pager:
"Limor from Tzipi Livni: Tzipi is not interested responding on this matter
now."

Of the four Likud ministers who have endorsed Sharon, three have declined to
take a position on a Palestinian state (Livni, Mofaz, Shalom) while the
fourth (Rivlin) opposes a state.

#2 Livni abstains in vote on roadmap

25 May 2003

Israel Radio reported this afternoon that the complete text of the 14
Israeli objections to the roadmap is attached to the cabinet decision
accepted today. The move was a condition set by Finance Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu for his abstention in the vote.

Minister of Education Limor Livnat told Israel Radio that this move was
critical for her decision to also abstain as the attachment of the complete
text of the objections makes clear that Israel's acceptance of the roadmap
is contingent on the 14 objections, that Prime Minister Sharon termed "red
lines" in the cabinet meeting, gain expression in practice.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is on record that the roadmap is "bad",
told Israel Radio that the vote today was not an endorsement of the roadmap
as it is currently written but rather the concept of the road map taking
into account Israel's 14 objections.

Netanyahu, Livnat, Naveh, and Livni abstained

#3 FM Livni: Israel's 14 Road Map Conditions Not Part of Discussion of Road
Map with Washington

Aaron Lerner Date: 14 September, 2006

During the course of a live interview from Washington broadcast on Israel
Radio early this morning (before midnight in Washington) Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni was asked if American officials related to Israel's 14
conditions for the Road Map (text follows)during the course of her meetings.

Livni replied - with a tone of laughter - that "I happened to mention it
myself in another context."

#4 FM Livni indicates turning all terrorists into cops is breaking up terror
infrastructure
Aaron Lerner Date: 22 January 2006

This morning IMRA asked Israel's new foreign minister, Tzippi Livni, the
following question through her assistant media advisor:

"Does Minister Livni accept the assertion made by the Palestinian Authority
that if it recruits all armed Palestinian groups into the ranks of the PA
police that this would constitute breaking up the terror infrastructure."

This evening, after consultations with foreign minister Tzippi Livni, the
assistant media advisor contacted IMRA with the following reply:

"The Government of Israel expects the Palestinian Authority to break up the
terror organizations as it has committed to do."

#5 FM Briefing by FM Livni following Israel's acceptance of UN Security
Resolution 1701 - Aug 13, 2006 ...

The second problem that we expected to occur, one way or another, on
cessation of the military campaign, was a situation in which, within a short
time, Hizbullah would be rearmed by Iran and Syria, through Syria, so we
asked from the start, at our initiative, for an arms embargo on Hizbullah.
The initiative in this case came from Israel, and we placed it on the table
of the international community.

Even in the last hours before passage of the resolution, we wanted to ensure
that this embargo would be enforceable and substantive, preventing the
transfer of arms from these countries to Hizbullah, in fact, to anyone other
than the Lebanese army. Now the embargo is part of the UN resolution and the
terms and formulation of this article are acceptable to Israel and express
our opinion - a proper embargo.

...It is also clear that the entire process is intended to lead, in the
end, to the disarming of Hizbullah, not just to the Lebanese army moving
southward, not just to an embargo, but to a process completed by the
disarmament of Hizbullah, as was required from the start in the previous
resolutions, but today we are also creating the way to enforce this process
at a practical level.

#6 Lecture Summary:FM Tzipi Livni: Security of state must be such that not
compromised by treaty violation

The 7th Herzliya Conference > Lecture Summaries Tzipi Livni, Vice Prime
Minister; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Minister of Justice
www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=1731&CategoryID=223

...One, the conditions of the negotiations must be set in such a fashion
that even if the treaty is violated, the security of the state is not
compromised

...In every political process we decide to undergo, it is our duty to look
after the security of our citizens and to prevent the establishment of a
terrorist state alongside Israel.

..."let us not forget what we have gained from the war: The Lebanese
military now controls the South of Lebanon, and the weapons embargo imposed
on Lebanon from Syria."