Thursday September 18, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Congratulations to Tzipi Livni, winner of the Kadima party primaries in Israel.

Livni is now in line to become the next prime minister of Israel.

On Sunday Ehud Olmert will resign as will his entire government.
President Shimon Peres will then interview all the political parties in Israel and ask the most capable party to create a coalition of over 60 Knesset members.
That party will in all probability be Kadima.
Livni will have 42 days to put together a government, it will probably be a coalition government.

Several important observations:
Livni is a very capable woman.
Livni is new on the scene but she has experience in politics and foreign policy.
Livni is weakest on security issues.
The PA was pleased that Livni defeated her rival, Shaul Mofaz.
So is much of the Arab world.
The Arab world considers Mofaz to be more a hawk that Livni.

Be careful what you wish for.

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