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Amir Peretz, Tzipi Livni and Amram Mitzna [right] (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)
Livni’s number two: We should leave the government now
MK Mitzna adds that he hopes the departure of his party from the coalition will lead to its downfall.   Amram Mitzna, former head of Labor party and currently number two in Tzipi Livni’s Tnuah party, called on his fellow party members to leave Netanyahu’s government due to the prime minister’s lack of commitment to…
By Noam Sheizaf June 7, 2014
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [file photo], Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO
With Livni as his fig leaf, Bibi can now form an extremist government
After signing Tzipi Livni onto his coalition, Netanyahu doesn’t need Yair Lapid anymore – he can have the haredim and Naftali Bennett while pacifying Obama.    Give the devil his due: Bibi pulled off a masterstroke yesterday by signing Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah party to his coalition. Now he’s got clear sailing to his ideal government…
By Larry Derfner February 20, 2013
Meretz signs at Occupy Israel social protest, Tel Aviv, 12 May, 2012 (Photo: Dahlia Scheindlin)
Meretz’s peace plan: A challenge to liberal timidity
The party’s new proposal effectively says the unsayable: that on the occupation, Israel is wrong and the Arabs are right. There are so many people out there, in Israel and overseas, who know that this country has gone wrong and that Netanyahu and the right are leading it to hell. Yet they end up giving…
By Larry Derfner December 27, 2012
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Tzipi Livni (photo: Sandy Teperson/CC)
Finally, Israel has an opposition: Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah party
With all due respect to Meretz and Hadash …  Until yesterday, the occupation was not an issue in the Israeli election campaign; the only parties running against it were Meretz and the non-Zionist, Arab or largely Arab slates, all of which are marginal to the country’s politics. But with Amir Peretz’s departure from the Labor…
By Larry Derfner December 7, 2012
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