Posted on 09/13/2008 8:15:24 PM PDT by Perdogg
ISRAEL’S foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has moved into a strong lead in the race to take over the governing party, putting her in line to become the country’s first woman prime minister since Golda Meir became the original “Iron Lady” nearly 40 years ago.
Polls put Livni 15 points ahead in the Kadima party’s leadership contest, in which voting takes place this week. She is expected to replace Ehud Olmert, the prime minister whose entanglement in corruption allegations led him to announce last week that he would resign once the new leader is elected.
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Olmert is iron-like compared to her.
More like hard times for Israel. They need Netanyahu or maybe Mofaz, not that disastrous Livni. She is everything Olmert was, but worse. Damn. If she is going to be PM, it ain’t pretty. She will continue the sell out of Israel, bit by bit to the Palis.
How does a former general who led the bombing raid on Iraq's nuke reactor (Ehud Barak) turn into a PM who nearly gave Jerusalem away to Yasser Arafat?
Israelis are crazy.
Maybe it's yer money...No way would I marry a woman who could beat me at arm wrestling...
How does a former general who led the bombing raid on Iraq's nuke reactor (Ehud Barak) turn into a PM who nearly gave Jerusalem away to Yasser Arafat?
Israelis are crazy.
HaShem or haSatan. It all depends who they are listening to:
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
Ehud was listening to Carvile and Begala, apparently. Makes sense then don’tchaknow.
It is still the leadership of haSatan in the words of Carvile and Begala.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
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No, I accept Livni’s distinction. Terrorists premeditatedly and deliberately aim to kill women and children and unarmed men. When instead they take aim at armed soldiers, they are at least waging legitimate warfare. That is the distinction between the Irgun and Sterm groups, which targeted British regulars and Arab irregulars (such as those who occupied Der Yassin), and Hamas, Hezbollah and the various other organizations that presently are terrorizing Israel. Occasionally, they do actually hit a military target, but approximately 83% of the casualties they inflict are on civilians (this from the doctor who developed the lifesaving emergency procedures now used to treat suicide bombing victims in Israel).
Hezbollah cannot claim the soldiers they capture, torture, murder and mutilate (not necessarily in that order) are “combatants” within the meaning of this distinction, because once they are taken prisoner, they no longer are a threat to their captors, so must be treated humanely under international law.
He is the one they need.
Golda was not perfect, but Livni isn’t woman enough to fill Golda’s shoes. Golda at least gave a genuine fig about dealing firmly with terrorism and not appeasing the Amalekstinians.
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