Livni says "no" to joining Netanyahu-led coalition

Reuters ^ | Feb. 15, 2009 | Jeffrey Heller

[Free ThinkerNY]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni wrote in a private note captured by cameras on Sunday that her centrist Kadima party would not join any coalition government headed by right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

The note, which Livni handed to outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Kadima at the weekly cabinet meeting, set the battle lines in what could be weeks of political bargaining after Israel's inconclusive election last Tuesday.

Shortly after polls closed, both Livni and Netanyahu laid claim to the premiership, deepening uncertainty over the course Israel will follow after last month's Gaza war and in peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

[sofaman]

The strategy of the Israeli left will be to demagogue anything and everything Netanyahu’s government does.

[17th Miss Regt]

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni wrote in a private note captured by cameras...

Methinks this was no accident.

[MuttTheHoople]

Bibi doesn’t need Neville Livni in his government.

[goldstategop]

It looks like it will be a government of the Right. Israel Beiteinu is likely to get key ministries.

"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

[gigster]

Cool,go home Zippy.

[tarheelswamprat]

The strategy of the Israeli left will be to demagogue anything and everything Netanyahu’s government does.

Naturally, since they saw a perfect demonstration of how successfully the American left used that strategy against President Bush.

I have a favorite quip I jokingly use with my friends that "the Universe runs on irony", but I do believe there's a bit of truth in it.

The irony is that if both the American and the Israeli left were as aggressive and tenacious in confronting and fighting their respective countries' real enemies tooth and nail as they are in fighting their own domestic political opponents in order to gain and hold their own power, most of the battle against those real enemies would be quickly won.

Instead, in their blind, all-consuming lust for their own power they engage in rule-or-ruin scorched earth political warfare with their own countrymen. They are both insane, and evil...