2 women at the top

It's more than sentimental wishful thinking, a musing from the soul rather than a political proposal, although it all takes places in the political arena. Just like similar aspirations, it is not solidly premised on rationale or clearly outlines its reasoning and arguments. It comes from age and experience, from the harsh disappointments, desperation and intense observation of how the Israeli plot is developing: I want two women at the head of the State.

A female president who would cleanse the Presidential Residence of the filth that has allegedly spread throughout; cleanse it of alleged abuse and rape and use of force and alleged humiliation and distortion of justice and alleged silence and all that will soon be revealed if Moshe Katsav and his cronies would permit proper investigation of the truth and justice.

I want Colette Avital in the Presidential Residence. I would be happy to see Naomi Hazan or Shulamit Aloni, the most special of all, in the race, but they are not competing for the post. I want a woman and not a tainted, money-hungry man of God, a prankster crony of wealthy contractors, or any other man.

After the acts committed there in the dark with the full knowledge and silence of many, after the men who roamed the rooms and archives as if they were their own, only a woman would be suitable. As in a healing process - only he who comes from the side of the victim will fill the position properly.

With regards to the more practical position, the prime minister: Tzipi Livni.

We have experienced some bad years since the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, the last of the founding fathers, the last to have jitters before making a crucial decision or embarking on battle. The last to prepare for war down to the finest detail and then to experience the anxiety of loss that stems from a deep sense of responsibility.

Since Rabin, who in his ripe age understood the limitations of force, the army's weakness and horror of deadlock, we have for the most part encountered unaccountable males and officers with hardened hearts.

They coolly go to war: Brutal and publicity-hungry Shaul Mofazes who crush their neighbors, megalomaniacs such as Ehud Barak for whom everything is a zero-sum game, Western Wall Tunnel gamblers such as Benjamin Netanyahu, featherweight trade unionist clowns such as Amir Peretz, and hollow attorneys such as Ehud Olmert, with everything that should have been said of him throughout the years simply stated by the Winograd Commission.

Power to create change

I want a woman who would sever the sequence of fatal testosterone males that has not let up since Rabin's murder. The series of Yaalon- Mofaz-Barak look-alikes that led the nation to its current state: A sophisticated high-tech power, creative, and replete with success being led by a group of untalented officers to the verge of a world war against Islam - against Palestine, Iran, Iraq, and anyone who kneels towards Mecca during prayer.

I believe that a woman occupying the prime minister's seat in itself has the power to create a change. The world relates to female leaders differently. There is immediate sympathy, curiosity and empathy. Associations undergo a radical change. Aggressiveness is softened. Everything becomes more moderate, and is filled with a different substance.

I know that female leaders were not always a great success. Some were male-females; women with high levels of testosterone are just as harmful as men. Golda Meir was problematic, with impressive traits of perseverance that are now being revealed in the face of the failures of the men. She was stronger than Moshe Dayan.

Livni will be put to the test immediately. Similar to Peretz the civilian who entered the Defense Ministry and approved targeted killings the very next day, and by so doing sealed his demise, she will face a tough test.

She will have to change the course of historic affairs, and send the army back to its barracks in the face of disparaging eyes of belligerent males. She will have to stand without flinching before Mossad Chief Dagan, Army Chief Ashkenazi and others. She will have to bring about a revolution of feminine thought.

A heavy burden will be placed on the shoulders of a candidate who lacks long-term experience and who is honest in her own way, uncorrupted, inexperienced in military and Treasury scheming. She will be called upon to demonstrate force and compassion.

There is a significant risk here, but in face of the list of violent, failed men waiting for the job, I long to see President Colette Avital tasking Knesset member Tzipi Livni with the job of forming a government.