Oh my....
Hmmm... In the 'Zionist Union' party (the combined Labor-Tzipi Livni party) pressure is growing on Livni to waive the rotation to which she and Labor party leader Yitzchak Herzog agreed.
Fat chance that will ever happen. More than any other politician in Israel, Livni is all about '
me me me.'
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Labels: egomania, Knesset elections 2015, Tzipi Livni, Yitzchak Herzog
Me, Me, Me, Me, Me
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni is complaining that Israel under Prime Minister Netanyahu is the only country to oppose the '1967 lines' as the starting point for 'negotiations' with the 'Palestinians.' Her solution is to
vote for me, me, me, me, me.
"What we saw [after Washington] was that US President [Barack Obama] continued from his meeting with Netanyahu to Western countries, where he also asked for his position to be adopted, a position only opposed by one state," she said.
The Kadima leader was referring to Netanyahu's opposition to Obama's call for negotiations with the Palestinians to based along 1967 lines.
On Friday, Dennis Ross, a senior adviser to Obama on the Middle East, told Jewish newspapers that the president’s call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the basis of the 1967 lines, with agreed land swaps, has been welcomed by European leaders during international meetings surrounding the G8 summit of world powers.
Well given that Israel is the only country being asked to concede something by adopting the '1967 lines,' is it really that surprising that only Israel objects? Just think, if God forbid Livni were in charge, we would have conceded the '1967 lines,' and be negotiating over the Galilee and the Negev already.
And by the way - dear traitorous egomaniac - if you'd stop undercutting Netanyahu at every opportunity to promote your own candidacy, perhaps there would be other countries on our side.
Labels: 1949 armistice lines, Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, egomania, Tzipi Livni
Israel's 'loyal opposition' as self-centered as usual
One of the most striking things about Yehuda Avner's
The Prime Ministers is how during the period from the '60's to the early '80's, this country's leaders seemed more concerned with the country than with their own egos. Menachem Begin is often described as cooperating with Labor when Begin's Likud was in opposition and he was the leader. In the run-up to the 1977 election, Yitzchak Rabin told his staff that if his arch-enemy Shimon Peres were to win the election and ask them to stay on, they owed it to the country to stay on. And when Menachem Begin won the election, Rabin told members of his staff (including Avner) the same.
Compare that to our current government and its opposition. In 2006, the elections were won by Kadima,
Israel's first party with no principles.
Ehud K. Olmert, possibly the worst Prime Minister in Israel's history, bore out the expectations of self-centered behavior (and no, he was not our first self-centered Prime Minister) that Kadima engendered.
After Olmert resigned in disgrace, Tzipi Livni became the party's leader. To date, she has mostly distinguished herself by leading her party into opposition rather than accept the election results and take a back seat to Netanyahu within the government. At what may be Israel's most crucial moment short of actual war, Livni has been a constant display of unfettered and unwarranted ego. Over the weekend, she did it again, claiming that had Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to a 'settlement freeze' there would have been no Hamas-Fatah deal. Israel, says Livni, needs a Prime Minister who can convince the World not to vote for a 'Palestinian state' at the UN in September (a lost cause if I ever saw one). And can you guess by now
whom she has in mind?
Speaking on the Channel 2 program Meet the Press, Livni said Israel needed a prime minister who could persuade the world not to allow a Palestinian state to be declared unilaterally at the UN General Assembly in September, but that Netanyahu did not fit the bill.
“In order to stop the unilateral process of recognizing a Palestinian state and get us off a track that is bad for Israel, Netanyahu must negotiate,” Livni said. “For him to be believed, he must pay prices.
“He needed to pay with a freeze but he stammered.”
Livni said Israel should agree to peace talks with the Palestinians, provided Hamas accepted the Quartet conditions of recognizing Israel’s right to exist, renouncing violence and respecting treaties signed by the Palestinians. But she also said there was no chance of reaching peace with Hamas.
The Kadima leader said that Netanyahu’s reaction to Palestinian reconciliation put Israel further into a corner. She cited the news that the European Union on Friday offered to increase aid to the Palestinians after the government announced that it would withhold the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority in response to the Fatah-Hamas unity deal.
She said that elections in Israel would “stop the world in its tracks” if they realized that a new government willing to negotiate with the Palestinians was going to be chosen. She accused Netanyahu of only caring about his political survival.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Livni says that Netanyahu should have 'paid the price' of a freeze. Netanyahu paid it for ten months and nothing happened. The only way he could have paid it that would have satisfied the World's First 'Palestinian' (who sits in the White House) would have been to include Jerusalem in the freeze, which Netanyahu did, albeit unofficially, and which Livni's own party
claimed to oppose. Livni says we should negotiate with Hamas if Hamas accepts the quartet conditions, but Hamas has repeated over and over again that it does not accept them. Livni says Netanyahu should not have cut off the 'Palestinians' tax money. She'd rather Israel fund Hamas than let the Europeans do it.
And finally, Livni comes to her bottom line: She wants elections now. Fortunately, for the good of the country, no one else does.
Labels: egomania, Kadima, Tzipi Livni
Me, Me, Me, Me, Me
Former Bush administration national security adviser Elliott Abrams criticizes President Obama for trying to take
too much of the credit for Osama Bin Laden's demise (Hat Tip:
Michael F).
President Obama will bask in the satisfaction of all Americans that justice has finally been done—and done through an assault that combined the best of intelligence work with a courageous and well planned military operation. It is entirely appropriate that Mr. Obama and the Administration get and take a fair amount of credit.
It is therefore unfortunate that Mr. Obama seems to want more than that fair share the American people will naturally and rightly give him. His remarks last night were far too much laced with words like “I met repeatedly,” “at my direction,” and “I determined,” trying to take personal credit for the years of painstaking work by our intelligence community. Mr. Obama might have noted that this work began under President Bush, but as usual he did not. It was also a mistake for him to use this occasion to deliver unrelated comments about “the pursuit of prosperity for our people” and “the struggle for equality for all our citizens.” A shorter and more straightforward announcement would have been more appropriate for this occasion.
Once again here the White House appeared unable to get the messaging quite right, a failure magnified by the amateurish delay of more than an hour in Mr. Obama’s remarks. The White House told the nation at roughly 10 p.m. that the President would speak at 10.30. Had the President done so, he would have delivered fabulous and shocking news. By the time he actually spoke nearer to midnight his words were an anticlimax, for all the news had leaked. Whatever the cause of this delay—Mr. Obama editing the remarks for too long, or a belatedly discovered need to brief Congressional and world leaders—it suggested that the calm professionalism in the face of crisis shown here by our military and intelligence professionals has yet to be achieved in the White House.
Deja vu all over again. Obama's Awesomeness just can't be matched.
Heh.
Labels: Barack Obama, egomania, Osama Bin Laden
The downfall of Dahlan
Here are a couple of choice quotes from an analysis of the fall of
Mohamed Dahlan.
Palestinian analyst Hani al-Masri said Abbas' moves against Dahlan are in a way the result of frustration with the lack of progress toward a Palestinian state, which leaves leaders like Abbas feeling vulnerable.
"There is a trend in the Palestinian Authority of being less tolerant due to the failure of the peace process," he said.
In other words, if only he had a 'state,' Abu Bluff would suddenly become a Democrat. Good luck with that.
Abbas himself has not addressed the issue in public.
But the case appears personal, brought on by the Palestinian leader's intolerance for criticism, said political analyst Mouin Rabbani.
"Abbas is extremely sensitive, exceptionally thin-skinned and has an exceptionally high opinion of himself, so the mere act of making personal criticism of him puts you beyond the pale," said Rabbani, who is a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies.
That sounds like the perfect partner for a 'peace process.' What could go wrong?
Labels: egomania, Mahmoud Abbas, Mohamed Dahlan
