Kadima to Peres: Government led by Livni will unite Israel

[IndianaGreen]

Peres is an old fart and a misogynist who once referred to Livni as an office girl. What a LOSER!

:popcorn:

Last update - 23:50 18/02/2009

Kadima to Peres: Government led by Livni will unite Israel

By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent

Setting in motion the process of forming Israel's next government, President Shimon Peres met Wednesday night with representatives of the Kadima party, to hear their views on whom to charge with the task of building a coalition.

Kadima representatives recommended party leader Tzipi Livni for the task, saying that her moderate views could represent a unity government that would strech from the center to the fringes, both to right and to the left.

Under Israeli law, the president has to meet with all factions which won Knesset seats in an election, to hear who they recommend for the premiership. He can then task any legislator with the job, but gives the nod to the one who has the best chance of forming a stable coalition.

The election gave Livni's Kadima 28 of the 120 Knesset seats, one seat more than Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, but the right-wing bloc, more likely to join a coalition headed by Likud, gained substantially more votes than the left, making Netanyahu more likely to be able to recruit the necessary 61 MK majority to his coalition.

Finance Minister Ronny Bar-On said after the meeting that if Livni were to form a coalition, it would have the greatest maneuverability because "she doesn't have this or that commitment that could influence her decisions."

Bar-On was asked whether the possibility of a rotation government was raised during the meeting, to which he replied "the word rotation, as far as I recall, was not mentioned in the room, but toward the end of the session I told the president that if no decision is made by the end of the week, he should use the method I know from the legal realm, meaning taking both sides into his chambers until white smoke rises."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065219.html

[oberliner]

1. Shimon Peres is not a mysogynist and he never referred to Livni as an office girl

I will concede that he is old.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Peres on Livni: 'the high school girl' sleeping next to the red telephone

Peres will sleep better with Netanyahu as prime minister than with Livni, whom he used to call "the high school girl" sleeping next to the red telephone.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1064865.html

[oberliner]

4. Is that your way of admitting that you were wrong?

I don't see "office girl" anywhere in that citation.

[IndianaGreen]

5. This is worse than being called an office girl

and that still makes Peres a misogynist.

[oberliner]

6. He is not a mysogynist

And he may or may not have ever made this comment.

He has devoted the vast majority of his life to expanding women's rights in Israel and elsewhere around the world.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Like Bob Packwood?

a public life of pro-women legislation coupled with a private life of sexual assaults and harassment.

[oberliner]

8. Sexual assaults and harassment?

Shimon Peres has never been accused of any such things.

[LeftishBrit]

9. Are you mixing him up with his predecessor Katzav?

I am not aware that Peres has ever been accused of any sort of sexual harrassment.

[bemildred]

2. No, it won't. nt

[Violet_Crumble]

10. This must be how Peres selects the next leader...

The party that comes to him with the biggest load of bullshit wins the prize. I can hardly wait to see what Likud trots out to beat that one....

[oberliner]

11. Who could he recommend to form the government besides Kadima or Likud?

I think he is charged with picking whichever party has the most pledged seats.

[Violet_Crumble]

12. It's one or the other, and it's a choice between bad and worse n/t

[LeftishBrit]

13. As so often. And Bad is definitely better than Worse.

This is a real cliffhanger. I almost wish Livni had a 'brother Jeb' to get her in! Anyone's better than Likud, especially if they're in coalition with even more RW parties.

[Vegasaurus]

14. Bibi looks to be able to take the coalition. nt

[bemildred]

15. "Livni is a terrorist"? Hmmm ...

Let me think about it. Maybe I can come up with something better. I just realized today that I am guilty of "Posting terrorism", or maybe it should be "terrorist postings".

[Scurrilous]

16. Livni tell Kadima MKs: we must go to opposition

"Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni said in internal talks with the party's MKs that "today the foundations have been laid for an extreme rightist government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. This is not our path, and there is nothing for us in such a government".

Livni added that, "We were not elected to legitimize an extreme right government and we much be an alternative of hope and go to opposition."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3674521,00.html

[azurnoir]

17. The people's wishs?

"In light of Peres' vast experience and familiarity with the political system, this is not just a technical move," Mofaz continued, "he needs to be attentive to the people's wishes and desires, and decide to task Livni with forming the government."

considering how the votes total out I do not know if a "centrist" government is the wish of the people.

[oberliner]

18. Livni's Kadima got the most votes

If it was America, she'd be the President.

[azurnoir]

19. Really? the year 2000 comes to mind............ n/t