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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.

“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...

"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.

Let me start by saying that calling Livni an "iron lady" is laughable, and that having her as Prime Minister will be a disaster for Israel.

That said, nothing in the statement you quoted has anything to do with appeasement. She specifically states that she would fight back if Israel's soldiers are attacked. She simply states, accurately, that not all attacks on soldiers are terrorism. Just mindlessly calling every enemy a "terrorist" is silly, and it lowers the value of the term when applied to real terrorists who target civilians, women, and children.

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.