“Stop treating me as a pariah,” said Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
"Stop treating me as a pariah," Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Arab delegates at the Annapolis conference on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post.
Livni and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the summit's attendees in a closed-door session following the televised addresses by American, Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Many of these represented Arab nations that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
"Why doesn't anyone want to shake my hand?" she asked in a dramatic address to the assembled representatives. "Why doesn't anyone want to be seen speaking to me?"
Dutch European Affairs Minister Frans Timmermans, who gave the paper details of the meeting, said the Arab delegates "shun her like she is Count Dracula's younger sister."