“ Netanyahu and I, we are looking at the region, we see the same issues, we see Iran, we see Hezbollah, we see Hamas, we don’t trust them, and we see the situation as it is. But he’s looking through different lenses at the same time. His answer is to sit still in an understanding — and it is a false understanding — that everything is based on anti-Semitism, delegitimization, that the whole world is against us, and that there is nothing to do about it. In a way, he takes Israel and changes it into a Jewish ghetto. Like we are waiting, you know, for the goyim, or expecting the goyim to come, and we should just wait until it’s over. The Israel I know is strong and can change the trends against it.
— Tzipi Livni, to Jeffrey Goldberg, recognizing the danger and folly of Netanyahu’s passivity.
