Topic: Tzipi Livni

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The prevailing mood in Israel about Iran’s nuclear facilities is hawkish and uncompromising. “It is a race against time, and time is winning,” said a key Israeli player. The Bush administration argues the clock won’t run out until Jan. 20, 2009, when the president turns things over to his successor. Barack Obama’s advisers are saying the clock should be reset to the results of next June’s Iranian presidential elections. John McCain, with Joseph Lieberman by his side, agrees with Israel’s hawks.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A poll released Friday indicates the Kadima Party would defeat Likud in an Israeli election if Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was at its head.

WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is the front-runner to succeed her boss, Ehud Olmert, as prime minister of Israel, but she could lose out to tough old Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, and, even if she wins, she isn't likely to keep the job long.

JERUSALEM, June 27 (UPI) -- All Palestinians should honor the Israeli-Hamas cease-fire in Gaza, a senior Hamas leader said Friday hours after mortar rounds were fired.

BERLIN, June 25 (UPI) -- A high-ranking Berlin conference on Middle East security kicked off with eclat and ended with a pledge for $242 million in aid money for the Palestinian authorities.

JERUSALEM, June 10 (UPI) -- No injuries were reported when militants staged two mortar attacks Tuesday from Gaza toward the Nahal Oz kibbutz in the Negev region, officials said.

JERUSALEM, June 8 (UPI) -- The Palestinian government is urging calm amid threats of an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian government spokesman said.

JERUSALEM, June 7 (UPI) -- A blunt warning from an Israeli Cabinet minister that an attack on Iran might be necessary reflects a political battle under way Israel, analysts say.

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 2 (UPI) -- Tzipi Livni, Israeli minister of foreign affairs, met with her German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to discuss recent political developments in Lebanon.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to resign by the end of this year if no agreement was reached with the Israelis over the creation of an independent Palestinian state.