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‘Iron Lady’ Tzipi Livni set to be Israel’s new leader
timesonline. UK ^ | September 14, 2008 | Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; livni
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To: Ken522

Olmert is iron-like compared to her.


41 posted on 09/13/2008 11:50:43 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: grey_whiskers

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.


42 posted on 09/14/2008 12:59:56 AM PDT by SolidWood (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: F15Eagle
That’s what I was thinking too. How does a former Mossad agent turn into a wimpy Israel-divider and Jerusalem-divider?

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.

43 posted on 09/14/2008 4:48:00 AM PDT by montag813 (www.BoycottUsWeekly.com | Fight the Smears)
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To: Crim
I married a woman 20 years ago who could cover my back in a bar fight... for some stange reason...she still loves me...

Maybe it's yer money...No way would I marry a woman who could beat me at arm wrestling...

44 posted on 09/14/2008 5:56:20 AM PDT by Iscool (If Obama becomes the President, it will be an Obama-nation)
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To: montag813; F15Eagle
F15>That’s what I was thinking too. How does a former Mossad agent turn into a wimpy Israel-divider and Jerusalem-divider?

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.

It all depends who they are listening to:

HaShem or haSatan.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
45 posted on 09/14/2008 9:37:55 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: XeniaSt

Ehud was listening to Carvile and Begala, apparently. Makes sense then don’tchaknow.


46 posted on 09/14/2008 9:39:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
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
47 posted on 09/14/2008 10:04:38 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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48 posted on 09/14/2008 1:53:41 PM PDT by SJackson (as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, Michelle O)
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To: csvset

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.


49 posted on 09/14/2008 9:40:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html. Donate to members.tripod.com/tva_israel/HOME.HTM)
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To: Norman Bates
Bring back Netanyahu.

He is the one they need.

50 posted on 09/14/2008 9:54:00 PM PDT by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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To: Alouette

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.


51 posted on 09/15/2008 5:39:22 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (“Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.” - V.P. Sarah Palin)
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