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Channel 2: Livni criticizes Netanyahu for invoking Holocaust at UN

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By GIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 22:30

Kadima leader Tzipi Livni became the first Israeli politician to criticize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's landmark speech to the United Nations in an interview she gave on Saturday afternoon to Channel 2. Livni said that Netanyahu made a mistake when he invoked the horrors of the Holocaust in his criticism of Holocaust-denying Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She said the comparison could harm Israel's diplomatic efforts and make Israelis question their security. "We have to be careful not to encourage the world to think that Israel was established because of the Holocaust," Livni said. "When Obama said so in Egypt, there was a justified uproar. It is wrong to compare any event in history to the Holocaust, because it minimizes the most horrible historic event that happened to the Jewish people. It also makes Israeli citizens feel less secure. The Jews of Israel in 2009 are not the Jews of Europe in 1939, and I've said this to Netanyahu."

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