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Livni to CNN: Netanyahu sold Israel to haredim
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 08.08.12, 09:54
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1. So Livni believes that Netanyahu is G-d
Abe   (08.08.12)
Everyone knows that G-d gave Israel to the Jews who were only haredim at that time. If not for haredim, there wouldn't be Jews today. By the way Livni, G-d did not "sell" Israel to haredim, but gave it to them as a gift.
2. Livni
Larry ,   Kibbutz   (08.08.12)
Well i think that she doesn't have enough brains to lead a party . She needs to learn to keep her big mouth shut when taliking to the world press about Israel's politics and internal problems.,, we have enough headaches with the world press about our external policies !! wake up Woman !
3. LIVNI
FELIX ,   JLEM ISRAEL   (08.08.12)
YHE LADY IS A BIG HYPPOCRITE! SHE HERSELF WAS READY TO GIVE THE HAREDIM MUCH MORE THAN BIBIB IS GIVING THEM.
4. I have to agree with her....
Sheik Rattle & Roll ,   USA   (08.08.12)
It is a shame that a small minority of society that contributes nothing but "prayer" has so much control over the every day lives of the majority. Israel needs to separate government from synagogue. Also Israel needs to create some type of mandatory national service for it's minority non-Jewish sector as well (not necessarily military), maybe the world would respect Israel as more of a democracy then a defacto democracy where majority rules.
5. Zippy Livni
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (08.08.12)
Zippy should learn about Peres' "stinking deal", the extreme Left's election reforms of the '90s and the Oslo government's cash payments to Shas to know who "sold Israel to the Haredim". She could also check how much Sharon paid the Haredim for the Gush Katif ethnic cleansing and why Ovadiah Yosef loves her boss Olmert. Zippy could be dismissed as another low-intellect hack that infects Israeli politics if not for her sole achievement: crafting the agreement that allowed Hezbollah to rebuild its power and become a strategic threat to Israel.
6. Ridiculous Chaos
Zivron   (08.08.12)
The Haredim have no military power and most would make lousy combat soldiers.Israels military deterrance is in the main controlled by secularists with the religious zionists providing now the dedication and courage in the combat units.In time maybe more ultra orthodox will serve but they are on a different planet to the planet of survival of the feral realists.
7. And Livni sold Israel to HIzbollah!
Jerusalem Jew ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.08.12)
8. Livni
Wise Saba ,   Ma'agalim   (08.08.12)
Nobody takes the irrelevant Livni seriously anymore, she is just a big bag of hot air.
9. HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!
dr harry ,   Jerusalem   (08.08.12)
Recycled Trash trying to make a comeback. Where are the Protesters?????? OH! They went on vacation, it's August, then they start school. Whatever!!!! No New News here!!!!!! Same old "Paka Paka!!!!
10. You lost Livni, get it !
Laura ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.08.12)
11. Yes Tzipi but.......
Mike Carmel ,   Rishon le Zion   (08.08.12)
YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED IT !!!! If you had swallowed your ego after the last election and gone into a government of "national unity" with Netanyahu. Then you could have thrown the ultra-orthodox aside.
12. Livni sold Israel to Leftist and arabs
Iranian H   (08.08.12)
Better sell Israel to Haredim than to leftist and arabs that wanted to destroy Israel from within and makes it into Palestine.
13. zipi
sam ,   belgium   (08.08.12)
1..she was very good to them because she needed thier sopprpt 2..yes thier prayer keeps us going is it a normal thing that against over 100m we are still there ??
14. Modern Israel
yaakov ,   TA   (08.08.12)
was developed by Jews(and other sympathetic minorities) who were willing to work hard all day and went called upon, to defend Israel with arms and sheer guts. And that is true up until the current tme. All others are part of a welfare culture that is not sustainable, period,
15. I hope he got his asking price.
Roland Seener ,   London England   (08.08.12)
16. better to jews than to europeeans and Israel haters
MICHEL ,   ASHKELON   (08.08.12)
17. King Lapid & Queen Livni are examples of a failed system
zionist forever   (08.08.12)
Livni has just shown she is the new Yair Lapid. She has an ego and so can't handle the idea of joining anybody else so she wants to form a party that revolves around her not a cause. Israel's political system is a failed system which is actually damaging to democracy. When you have single issue parties like Shas and individuals who want to go into politics but want to take a fast track to the top so you form your own party based on opportumism rather than ideals and people end up electing a whole party because they an individual. How many others who are putting their names on the Yair Lapid ticket will ever talk in public? We have Liberman who has alot of people who dislike him but nobody can get rid of him or anybody else because he is not directly elected. As things stand in the Knesset and only 68 out of the 120 seats are in the hands of the three mainstream parties that exist to run the country the others are held by single issue parties. The more parties we have the further the vote is split the less influence the mainstream has, coalitions get bigger & more unstable and the less public demands matter because the little parties are calling the shots.
18. As much as I dislike her past political actions, she's right
Avi   (08.08.12)
Bibi sold the state to the Haredim. This is clear to everyone now. He constantly spoke of a "historical change" yet all he did was prepare a Tal Law 2.0 and crash down the biggest coalition in decades. His promise was a cynical one. Likud was seen in the last few years as a strong right wing party for rightists. Now it's seen purely as a Haredim and Settlers party and there's no representation for the average secular rightist Israeli. Bibi will pay dearly politically for his backstabbing.
19. The Tzipor (birdbrain) is such a sore loser
Berl ,   formerly of Seattle   (08.08.12)
20. Now she is a big talker.
Mark ,   Israel   (08.08.12)
21. It could be worse.
michael Pielet ,   israel   (08.08.12)
Tsipi a pathetic irresponsible dyfunctional politician. First she crosses the line when she airs her criticism in the U.S. media. Second this is her issue. she is against the haredim? That is it, she is against the haredim? Tsipi run on your record. Bad decisions, failure on the withdrawal from Gaza. Bad decisions, failure on the Lebanon war of 2006. Tsipi run on your record of total failure. We know you do not like the haredim.
22. Easy for her to say that now...
Potash Katiftof ,   Safed, Israel   (08.08.12)
If she has all the solutions to fixing Israel, why did she do such a bad job as PM and why was she not able to form a gov't even when her party, Kadima, had the most votes? Really easy to criticize, much harder to do better.
23. she is 1 of the most RELIABLE politician in israel.
hot snow ,   tlv   (08.08.12)
24. The Haredim need to be separated from the state
Sarah B (Yes its me)   (08.08.12)
In normal decent countries religion and state have been seperated for tens if not hundreds of years. It is a sign of modernity that the Synagogue should do it's thing and the people should do theirs. A nation in the modern world is based on a common set of values, and that is where our Jewishness will shine through. It is time for the sake of the future of Israel to clip the Haredi wings to a level which accurately represents their numbers.
25. selling of jewishness to the haredim
ed ,   sparks, america   (08.08.12)
for some unknown reaso this woman refuses to understand that the jewishness of Israel has nothing to do with local but to who established them as a nation. they were established as a nation long before they had a country. she might want to read her history from the beginning. she can start with the Torah!!!!!!!!
26. forget about livni
milson   (08.08.12)
the problem with livni is not the haredi who any reasonable person would understand have to martial up and get the hell into the army, no excuses as their manner depicts jews as submissive weaklings. livni's problem is that she is an empty vessel, has nothing to offer, understands nothing about military affairs even if she did basic training, and showed herself to be a coward by not leaving olmert's government when he was told by winograd that he was an absolute mililtary failure. Livni has nothing to offer and will never be PM. That she assoicates with ramon, olmert's water carrier,a buffoon with no record to speak of except that of a criminal tells the whole story. She is dumb as a doorknob.
27. to #14 Dafne Leef didn't serve the IDF nor
ghostq   (08.08.12)
she is working, better include the rioters for social justice as well.
28. livni lost kadima, bibi won
ma nishma ,   modiin   (08.08.12)
face the fact livni, you lost and lost big, everything but your big mouth. you can criticize bibi but he is on top and you are not even in the opposition any more. bye bye livni good bye.
29. #24 It's Haredim who are keeping the state safe for Jews
(08.08.12)
If not for them, Israel would be swallowed up by its Arab neighbors. You should thank them daily for keeping Israel safe.
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