Tzipi Livni verkar bli Israels nästa premiärminister. Det blir då ganska intressant vem hon är.
Tzipi Livni – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born
in Tel Aviv,[5] Livni is the daughter of Eitan Livni and Sara
Rosenberg, both prominent former Irgun members.[6] Tzipi Livni served
as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces and worked for the Mossad
for nearly two years during the early 1980s, resigning in August 1983
to marry and finish her law studies. It is rumored that she was a
terrorist hunter for the Mossad,[7] however recent findings suggest
that Livni was a low level agent hired to live in Paris apartment used
by Mossad so that it would look like regular residential property.[8] A
graduate of Bar Ilan University’s Faculty of Law, she has 10 years
experience as a practicing lawyer, specializing in public and
commercial law.[9] Livni resides in Tel Aviv. She is married to
accountant Naftali Spitzer and has two children, Omri and Yuval.
According to her childhood friend Mirla Gal, Livni is a vegetarian.[10]
Livni speaks Hebrew, English, and French.
Tzipi Livni med Dick Cheney
Att Tzipi Livni inte är någon duva framgår ganska tydligt om man läser hennes bio. Samtidigt verkar hon ha utvecklats till en mer pragmatisk realist från hennes bakgrund i den israeliska yttersta högern och Irgun. Om man ska tro Wikipedia och Gruardian.
In Sharon’s Cabinet, Livni was an avid supporter of the prime minister’s disengagement plan
and was generally considered to be among the key dovish or moderate
members of the Likud party. She often mediated between various elements
inside the party, and gained recognition for her efforts to achieve
peace, particular her successful efforts to have the pullout from the Gaza Strip
ratified by the Knesset. On 12 November 2005, she became the first
member of her party to speak at the official yearly commemoration of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination.On 20 November 2005, Livni followed Sharon and Olmert into the new
Kadima Party. Ahead of the 28 March elections Livni was appointed to be
the new Foreign Minister, while continuing to serve as Justice
Minister, as a result of the mass resignation of Likud Party members
from the government. In the selection of candidates for the March 2006 Knesset election,
Livni was awarded the number three position on Kadima’s list of
candidates, which effectively guaranteed her election to the Knesset.On 4 May 2006, with the swearing-in of the 31st Government, Livni
became Vice (or Deputy) Prime Minister and retained the position of
Foreign Minister. She ceased serving as Justice Minister at that time,
but again held that position from 29 November 2006 to 7 February 2007,
while still serving in her primary role of Foreign Minister. With these
appointments, Israel is one of the few countries in the world to have
had more than one female foreign minister, and the only country in the
Middle East to have seen a woman in a position of comparable power.
Guardian ger en delvis annan bild av ’duvan’. Det är intressant att Livni är ett barn av vad som är den närmaste israeliska motsvarigheten till PLO eller en av dess undergrupper – Irgun. Och att hon står en generation ifrån den grupp Israeler som med vapen grundade staten Israel.
Med tanke på hur korrumperade den övriga israeliska politiska eliten är ska den bli intressant att se hur Livni agerar. Israel behöver en kompetent pragmatisk realist om landet ska överleva. Likadant hänger mycket av framtiden för både palestinier och mellanöster på vem som väljs i Israel.
Profile: Tzipi Livni, Israel’s foreign minister | World news | The Observer
Livni,
a tall, auburn-haired former lawyer who will turn 50 next month, came
to political office late in life. She was elected to the Knesset,
Israel’s parliament, at 41 and began her rapid climb up the cabinet
ladder two years later. Even rivals recognise her potential allure as a
figure utterly untainted by the serial scandals and partisan warfare
that have sullied Israeli politics in the past few years.But if
she came to office late, Livni came to politics early. And it was
politics of a passionately ultra-nationalist hue. Her father Eitan was
chief of operations in Menachem Begin’s anti-British Irgun underground
and her mother Sara was an Irgun footsoldier.Livni’s childhood
was steeped in the enduring loyalties of Begin’s so-called ’fighting
family’, in a bitter resentment towards the Labour establishment that
dominated every area of public life until Begin’s shock election
victory in 1977, and a fierce dedication to the vision of a Jewish
state on the entire biblical Land of Israel, including the West Bank.For
Tzipi Livni, the personal and political journey from her
fighting-family childhood to an impassioned advocacy of a two-state
compromise with the Palestinians as Israel’s Foreign Minister has been
no less extraordinary. And since she has repeatedly insisted that part
of that deal must be an unconditional end to Palestinian terror
attacks, it has not been without its extraordinary ironies.Her
father, after all, was part of the high command of the Irgun, although
he was arrested three months before the assault which would lastingly
brand Begin’s irregulars, in the eyes not only of the British but
mainstream Jewish leaders, as a terror group – their 1946 bombing of
Mandate headquarters in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in which 91
people, many of them civilians, were killed. Interestingly, Livni,
alone among Israeli cabinet ministers, has drawn a distinction between
Palestinian attacks on civilians and on Israeli troops. ’Somebody who
is fighting against Israeli soldiers is an enemy, and we will fight
back,’ she told a US television interviewer. ’But I believe that this
is not under the definition of terrorism.’During her school
days, while both bright and athletic, as a ’child of the Irgun’, she
was inevitably an outsider. Livni none the less excelled during her
obligatory army service. She went on to work in Israel and then in
Paris for the intelligence agency Mossad, work she has always
resolutely refused to discuss, before taking a law degree and carving
out a successful, decade-long career as a corporate attorney.Her
parliamentary career began conventionally enough, as a candidate for
the right-wing Likud. But as Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians
changed dramatically, Livni was soon changing too.She had long
viscerally objected to any compromise deal and particularly to the Oslo
Accords negotiated under the Labour Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. But
as the 2001 Palestinian uprising, or intifada, escalated with a
campaign of terror bombings against Israeli civilians – and with
demographic trends pointing towards an Arab majority in an Israel that
included the West Bank and Gaza – she began to rethink the assumptions
she had held since childhood.Visiting London as the then-Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon began pressing his idea on a divided Likud for an
Israeli pullout from Gaza and at least parts of the West Bank, Livni
met prominent members of Britain’s Jewish community. One of them asked
whether she had abandoned her dream of a Greater Land of Israel. Her
reply was thoughtful, earnest, quiet, almost as if the child of the
Irgun were battling with the lawyer and politician she had become.It
was ’painful,’ she said. But the dream she had grown up with was for a
’Jewish, democratic state in the Land of Israel’. She had come to
realise that the first two parts of that dream – a Jewish and
democratic state – faced a mortal risk if Israel continued to rule over
millions of people in the Palestinian territories. Two states, she had
concluded, were a national imperative – not only for the Palestinians,
but for Israel.The change in Livni has deepened in the years
since. She was a leading force in Sharon’s Gaza pullout plan and
followed him out of an angry Likud to form the new centre-right Kadima
party of which she and Olmert are now senior ministers, with Livni his
formal deputy. But it has remained a painful, deeply personal
transition. Her father’s picture still has pride of place in her
office. When her mother died last year, a friend who visited her
recalls: ’You could see how enormously important both her families are
to her’ – her husband Naftali Spitzer is an advertising executive and
they have two sons, Omri and Yuval.Yet Western diplomats who
have worked with Livni trying to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace
process say the complex forces at work are never far from the surface.
One of them laughs at media portraits of her as a ’dove’. ’She is no
softie,’ he says. ’On key issues for Israelis – security and opposition
to an unfettered ”right of return” for Palestinians into homes lost in
1948 or 1967 – she is as tough as anyone.’But he adds: ’She
genuinely feels a two-state agreement is necessary. Her attitude when
there is an objection the Palestinians are pressing is always to go the
extra mile, to try to find some creative formula for a solution, as
long as it doesn’t endanger what she sees as the core needs of Israel.’