(Foreign Minister) Livni behind closed doors: Iran nukes pose little threat to Israel

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Source: Haaretz

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel, Haaretz magazine reveals in an article on Livni to be published Friday.

Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. Last week, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy said similar things about Iran.

The article also reveals for the first time a document Livni prepared and sent to Olmert a few months after the Second Lebanon War proposing a new division of labor between the two. "Enclosed is a proposal for work procedures between us, with the aim of providing an answer to Israel's strategic needs and facilitating early planning and the formulation of coordinated Israeli positions ... within the framework of cooperative

She described in the document a number of required arrangements: "The prime minister and the foreign minister will hold regular work meetings at least once a week." In an allusion to her absence form critical discussions during the war in Lebanon, she wrote: "The foreign minister will be invited to meetings with the prime minister on security matters and other meetings with serious implications."

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/916758.html

[Karenina]

1. Iran doesn't HAVE NUKES.

And SO WHAT if they did? The U.S. and Israel are ARMED TO THE TEETH. It's all jessss soooo reeeee-dickulous!!!

[...of J.Temperance]

2. I really like Tzipi Livni

She's a Moderate, she's very logical and pragmatic....I hope she becomes the next Israeli Prime Minister....Ehud Olmert is so weak that he's having to resort to scare tactics.

Tzipi Livni was one of the biggest supporters of the Disengagement Plan....she's a Dove as opposed to a Hawk, Israel and the people of Israel....and the people of Palestine would be very well served if Livni becomes the next Israeli PM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipi_Livni