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Olmert's hateful enemy
Mordechai Gilat
Published: 14.08.06, 11:09
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1. Tzipi Livni
A woman   (08.14.06)
Cherchez la femme? She's intelligent, tall,attractive, slim, educated, poised. The list goes on but no need. The photo's cute too of the two of them...
2. Ms.Livni
meggie ,   Israel   (08.14.06)
you will have my vote !
3. ohlmert's enemy
susan ,   israel   (08.14.06)
Mrs. Livni is a total failure, she is over-rated and should go home with ohlmert. she is unable to give proper press conferences, has no self confidence. she certainlyi has alot to learn. If she ever becomes prime minister...oy va voy us!
4. t. livni
a man ,   toronto, Canada   (08.14.06)
tall,attractive, slim....heard she will be in the next S.I. swinsuit edition
5. Woman with smarts
Chris ,   LA   (08.14.06)
As far as I'm concerned, Livni came off as the only realist in the whole Olmert government. She didn't make stupid, arrogant and boastful statements like Olmert, Peretz and Halutz. According to reports, she knew the offensive wouldn't work two days into it. Also she was the one who suggested delaying the major invasion in waiting for the UN resolution and she probably saved many Israeli and Lebanese lives with that.
6. They're both losers and both need to be thrown out
Da dude   (08.14.06)
7. Olmert and friends
Proud Israeli ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.14.06)
Not every smart lawyer is able to be a PM or Foreign Secretary. As the saying goes:"There is NO honor amongst thieves"! After all they cam to their position by subterfuge and by abandoning life-long held ideologies. Anyone who can do that so easily will always be suspicious of another. Heaven help us the 'spin-docotrs' are now getting busy to promote Tzipi, just so their ;creation' shall not be thrown out, as they well deserve.
8. Has Gilat Gone Mad?
malcolm ,   NYC   (08.14.06)
" he actually admitted that she was capable of beating him in the next elections." Neither of these two loosers will step inside the Knesset after O is impeached. It's a given. O is out. And Tzip, a Sharon appointee with family connections that helped get her the job, will be out too. What is probably true is that Olmert, even and perhaps especially , during a war , is thinking about defeating his political enemies and not Israel's enemies.
9. Olmert.. Livni and the rest
Allan ,   london   (08.14.06)
They handled the war, the media all wrong. I just hope that Bibi and Liberman get in next time to provide strong leadership
10. Is this the minister who did not want to bomb
jason white ,   afula,israel   (08.14.06)
nass-roller's headquarters?She is a pinhead and an opportunist. We need a change of govt. and everyone in the kadima/labor gang should be tried or banished from politics forever!
11. #2, You voted Olmert and now will vote Livni --
AK   (08.14.06)
No lessons learned for you, I see. More of the same. If a lack of dirrty laundry is her only qualification, vote for a guy/gal down at the corner store. Excuse me, but only a total idiot would choose to vote Kadima, the party of appeasement, again.
12.  Kadima Gang
post-trauma   (08.14.06)
Go home ! Resign before being fired by intelligent public campaign against this weird political party. My advice : go join Tommy Lapid's dead party . Maybe U will get 7 Knesset members ..... at most ...... altogether !
13. SHE IS GUILTY AS OLMERT
ARIE ,   CORAL SPRINGS, FL.   (08.14.06)
As a member of the (losers) cabinet she must go with all of them. The damage is to big, let BIBI fix it
14. Lack of intelligence - STUPPID, FOOLISH
Robert ,   Warsaw, Poland   (08.14.06)
So Hassan Nasrallah was right saying that clearly one month ago, when the war started. Why you didn't hear to him. He proved he feel better what's going on in Izrael.
15. Livni
Yisraeli   (08.15.06)
She is as culpable as Olmert and the rest no matter how good a character she may be. She left Likud and threw her lot in with the trash of politics namely Kadima for that she must pay the price and go down with the rest of them. Bye Bye Livni, you should have stayed clean politically and not joined the garbage bin party.
16. http://www.petitiononline.com/olmert/petition.html
Ari Vinograd ,   Florida USA   (08.15.06)
Please sign the petition
17. Very good observation Gilat!
Judith ,   Haifa   (08.15.06)
From what I read in Amira Lam's article about Livni, I realised that she has been enlisted by Olmert's people to blacken Livni in the eyes of the public. Well it won't work. The public wants a clever and clean leader and that is Livni; she will be Israel's next PM, and when you think about it, in her actions she already is. In trying to fight her he only weakens himself. Olmert is just plain jealous of her, and cannot compete with her popularity. There will be more attempts to trash her and it's important to understand what Lam did was not professional reporting, shame on her!
18. Olmert must go
Joseph Kaufman ,   Oakland/Jerusalem   (08.15.06)
Kadima is a party of political opportunists that forms coalitions with other political opportunists. We see where that has gotten us. These fools must go, they have exposed themselves as insufficiently experienced and doing outright damage to the future of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel with what they pathetically bleat is 'leadership' when in fact it is incompetence. Woe unto a nation that has the likes of Olmert and Peretz leading the affairs of state and the military. Perhaps if Peretz was still in the Histradut, at least he could have taken care of the citizens of the North and it wouldn't have fallen onto volunteers. Remember how Olmert and Peretz complained about the "whining" of the terror victims in Sderot? These bums must go. Now. New elections. Now. jWe can't afford to wait. More damage is done with each minute they are in power.
19. the left is looking for someone to annoint
Moshe ,   Beit Shemesh   (08.15.06)
after the Kadima disaster left 1/3 of israel in smoke
20. Bush servant
Alxa ,   Ned   (08.15.06)
Olmert must go to the U.S and work as servant for Bush. He should take as many IDF children as possible with him.
21. Focus on...
Ram ,   London   (08.15.06)
The people of Israel should focus on who is good for Israel. This should not be limited to a choice between Livni and Olmert. Israelis must ask themselves "who cares about them, their security, the love of their land, their inheritance, their international representation, their desire for lack of dependence on other nations, etc etc.." That is what is important.
22. ohlmert's enemy
sue ,   israel   (08.15.06)
read in" yediyot ahronot" that mrs. livni does not see one of the prime jobs of theMFA to explain to the world what is happening and why. if not that??????then what???????get rid of her and close the ministry. we certainly are spending a lot of $$ on our missions abroad.
23. Olmert "stabbing"
David Severy ,   Baltimore MD USA   (08.15.06)
"Yet, he (Olmert) still stuck a sharp knife into her (Livni), and with much talent added her to his list of enemies. " “A true friend stabs you in the front.” Oscar Wilde Did Livni get it in the front?
24. this is weak:
David Severy ,   Baltimore MD USA   (08.15.06)
The tenor of this article shows the weakness (madness?) of our times. While rockets are landing and Jewish blood in wetting the soil, Israelis are roughing each other up for political advantage. It is the same in the USA. It is even the same, but to a much lesser extent, in the muslim world. Those with the best ability to limit their "in fighting" with prevail. Unity is like attitude: EVERYTHING. Yet One shall return. Isaiah 52 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
25. Just ghastly.
sk ,   USA   (08.16.06)
I spend one-third of my time on Ynet being appalled at the Left's Judeaphobia, another third being appalled at the Right's homophobia, and the final third being appalled at the dumbness of the Israeli electorate overall. But nothing is worse than such a transparently tendentious bit of hack work. Readers should review Glick's latest at JPost.com regarding the incompetence of both ilmert AND zippity do-dah.
26. ARE YOU KIDDING???
Richard ,   USA   (08.16.06)
Livni, if anything, is more incompetent than Olmert. Get rid of the whole lot of these leftwing cowards and return real leadership to Israel to try to salvage something out of the disaster these incompetents have brought about. Surrender and unilateral withdrawal are interpreted as weakness and in the Middle East, weakness is death. Israel will not survive 5 more years without strong leadership, and it sure isn't found with Livni or Olmert or any of their ilk.
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