Will Israel's opposition leader get a second chance? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Had you been elected prime minister in March 2009, what would you have done about the diplomatic issue? What have we lost in these three years?

“An agreement.”

A final status agreement?

“A final status agreement. I believe it would have been possible.”

And if not?

“We would at least have taken full advantage of the process. Not in order to prove that there’s no partner. The proof that there’s no partner is a boomerang. Had we not reached an agreement, we would have had to think about our fallback position from the moment we decided on the principle of two states. The questions relate to security − the army is supposed to provide security for the citizens, not the settlements. Even when people talk to me today about the disengagement from Gaza and tell me, but there’s terror there, I ask them a simple question: Would you have reestablished Gush Katif, or only left the army there? They say: We would only have left the army.”

Get in there, Tzipi.