yitbos
Posted on 05/29/2008 2:55:38 PM PDT by Cecily
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who on Thursday challenged the Kadima party leadership of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, under investigation for alleged corruption, is seen as as rising political star and a contender to be its second woman leader. The 49-year-old lawyer, who defied her staunch nationalist background to become the number two in government and in the centrist Kadima, is today the most popular member of government.
She is seen as the strongest candidate to succeed Olmert as Kadima's head and enjoys high public approval ratings, though she still trails right-wing Likud party chief Benjamin Netanyahu in polls as a potential premier.
Today Livni heads the peace negotiations with the Palestinians, launched late last year in a US conference, but which have since made little visible progress.
She has met frequently with her US counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, on improving conditions for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where she is committed to the creation of a Palestinian state but also ensuring Israel's security and fight against terror.
"The creation of a Palestinian state, of a Palestinian economy, is clearly in Israel's interests, and we share the Palestinians' desire, just as cracking down on terror is a Palestinian interest," Livni said, while attending a donors conference for the Palestinians in Paris in December.
In April she took the rarely available opportunity of visiting an Arab country, attending a democracy forum in Qatar, where she lobbied for support against Iran's nuclear drive and urged Arab states to forge ties with Israel.
Ironically, Livni was virtually born to be a luminary in Likud. Her Polish-born father Eitan was director of operations for the Irgun, the hardline nationalist group that fought British rule through World War II and was one of the main factions that later formed the Likud.
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lol @ replacing Olmert with Livni.
Israel is hopeless.
yitbos
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Rising star, as in the number two person in the number three party becomes the number one person in the number three party when the number one person in the number three, formerly number one, party is forced out in disgrace.
A woman who betrayed her principles and refused to stand up for the national interest, for personal gain. How attractive, in a wartime leader.
“Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni”
Her Maiden name was Doodah; Tzipi D. Doodah.
Signed,
Uncle Remus
Isn’t be called the best of Kadima a bit like Moe being called the most sophisticated of the Three Stooges?
Calling Livni a rising star is like calling Wil E. Coyote the sharpest knife in the drawer. Israel needs a modern King David and it looks like what Kadima has to replace Tweedledum Olmerde is Tweedledee Livni.
Kadima is the last line of defense for the always-fractious (but moreso than usual) Israeli polity; the fact that Kadima arose in the first place (from scratch) shows how much upheaval is going on. Livni might get in, but there are other contenders (at least two within Kadima).
If Israel were in lullaby mode, as it was prior to the 1973 war, it would really be in much worse trouble; while those Arab/Muzzie missiles continue to fall from time to time, there’s no way negotiations will have majority support.
If Israel were to completely clean out the so-called West Bank and Gaza, the missiles wouldn’t stop, the launching sites would move. What is needed (unfortunately) is another major (and short) war, during which Israel could take care of the problem right up to its source (Damascus and southern Lebanon).
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