Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip.Shaul Mofaz, a former defense chief who is now number two in the centrist Kadima party, raised the prospect of talks with Hamas -- an idea rejected by both Israel and Hamas for years...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... those who changed their priorities," he said. Mofaz narrowly lost the leadership of the centrist Kadima party to Tzipi Livni in party elections last year. He disagreed with Livni's decision not to enter into a national unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party earlier this year.
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Steve Clemons is very excited that Kadima Party chief Tzipi Livni has sent "a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park...letter of affirmation to J Street, recognizing potential differences but affiriming a shared strategic vision for the best interests of Israel." No doubt this is a...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The more I listen to Congressional Opposition chief John Boehner as of late, the more I wish he could find the dignity and common ground for big objectives that Israel's Opposition Party Leader, Kadima Party chief Tzipi Livni, has...
Sify (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... this understanding and actions on the ground,' said the former foreign minister of the centrist Kadima party Friday. Israel's Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom was expected to convey concern about the proposal to Ban Ki-moon in a scheduled meeting in New York. Thus far, officially Israel largely remained mum on the talks in Vienna and Geneva. The only reaction from an Israeli government...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... this understanding and actions on the ground," said the former foreign minister of the centrist Kadima party Friday. Israel's Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom was expected to convey concern about the proposal to Ban Ki-moon in a scheduled meeting in New York. Thus far, official Israel had largely remained mum on the talks in Vienna and Geneva. The only reaction from an Israeli government...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The discussion of what best advances Israel's cause should "be inclusive and broad enough to encompass a variety of views, provided it is conducted in a respectful and legitimate manner," Livni wrote in her letter to J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami....Livni is also not attending the conference due to schedule constraints, but she wrote in her letter that senior Kadima party...
FailedMessiah.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... more of Falashmura who want to come, Sheetrit, today a Knesset member from the opposition Kadima party, said: "This is a great danger. Most experts assume that most of the Falashmura are neither Jews nor the children of Jews. One can always continue looking for tribes who want to come to Israel. Three or four times we were given the story that it was possible to bring over all of...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The more I listen to Congressional Opposition chief John Boehner as of late, the more I wish he could find the dignity and common ground for big objectives that Israel's Opposition Party Leader, Kadima Party chief Tzipi Livni , has just demonstrated in a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park letter to the executive director of the self-described pro-Israel, pro-peace group, J Street....
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
... the Netanyahu coalition for managing to survive the nine months since taking power. Livni’s Kadima Party finished first place in this year’s elections, but ended up in the opposition after Likud rallied a coalition of right wing and far right wing allies. She then noted “you have managed to beat the president of the United States, Israel’s greatest friend,...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
... is the first Israeli premier to stand trial. He stayed on as caretaker leader but was succeeded as Kadima party leader last September by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who won a plurality of votes in the general election last spring but failed to secure a viable coalition. Rightist Benjamin Netanyahu took over as head of government.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
... media adviser Amir Dan.Olmert is the first Israeli premier to stand trial.He was succeeded as Kadima party leader last September by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who won most votes in the general election last spring but failed to secure a viable coalition, and stayed on as caretaker prime minister until March this year.Rightist Benjamin Netanyahu took over as head of government.Olmert...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
... the Ukraine, Olmert, whose father was a legislator for Heirut, the precursor of the hardline Likud party of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, got involved in politics at a very young age. When he first entered the Knesset in late 1973, aged 28, he was the youngest member ever elected into the Israeli parliament. Gaining prominence also as a lawyer, he was in his early 40s when he...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
... the Ukraine, Olmert, whose father was a legislator for Heirut, the precursor of the hardline Likud party of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, got involved in politics at a very young age. When he first entered the Knesset in late 1973, aged 28, he was the youngest member ever elected into the Israeli parliament. Gaining prominence also as a lawyer, he was in his early 40s when he...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
... is the first Israeli premier to stand trial.He stayed on as caretaker leader but was succeeded as Kadima party leader last September by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who won a plurality of votes in the general election last spring but failed to secure a viable coalition.Rightist Benjamin Netanyahu took over as head of government.Olmert told reporters outside the courtroom in...
