‘Iron Lady’ Tzipi Livni set to be Israel’s new leader

timesonline. UK ^ | September 14, 2008 | Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv

[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.

[Perdogg]

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[Alouette]

She is not an “Iron Lady.” More like a “Marshmallow Lady”

[prisoner6]

Dang...I no nothing about her but I was hoping she'd be a strong woman leader. I gather from what you posted she's not...sigh.

prisoner6

[csvset]

In an interview on the US television news show Nightline, recorded on 28 March 2006, Livni stated:

"Somebody who is fighting against Israeli soldiers is an enemy and we will fight back, but I believe that this is not under the definition of terrorism, if the target is a soldier."

Hmm... Not a hockey mom or a Pitbull. Guilty of appeasement.

[goldstategop]

Yep. She's more dangerous than Olmert. She is Olmert without the corruption.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Ken522]

She’s probably iron-like compaired to Olmert ...

[Alouette]

Tzipi is the "Marshmallow Lady"

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[Norman Bates]

Bring back Netanyahu.

[Cicero]

An Iron Lady in the Olmert government? Permit me to barf.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

So I take it you do not agree with this (from the source):

' Ha’aretz newspaper has reported Naftali Spitzer, an advertising executive and father of her two children, as telling friends she is more right-wing than Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the conservative opposition Likud party.'

[Norman Bates]

Of course that’s possible if she is couching her present opinions because she is under the Olmert government.

[Crim]

“Somebody who is fighting against Israeli soldiers is an enemy and we will fight back, but I believe that this is not under the definition of terrorism, if the target is a soldier.”

Like it or not...she has a point...

I think the best thing about it would be that she.... is a she...

The muzzies will be freaked with a woman VP in the US and a woman PM in isreal...

I’m smiling just thinking about it...

[badpacifist]

Is this true? Is this good for Israel?

[Alouette]

Ha’aretz newspaper has reported Naftali Spitzer, an advertising executive and father of her two children, as telling friends she is more right-wing than Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the conservative opposition Likud party.

He must mean at home.

[Alouette]

Her Mossad duties in Paris consisted of house-sitting, not ass kicking.

[Nextrush]

Olmert with a skirt on.

A wimp out.

She couldn’t fill Golda Meir’s girdle.

[grey_whiskers]

Iron Lady in Israel, Pit Bull Palin here.

I foresee a hard time for Iran.

BTW, what was Golda Meir's government experience prior to becoming prime minister?

Cheers!

[Perdogg]

She was a school teacher in Milwaukee.