Secret Agent Tzippi Livni

See what the Palestinian Liberation Organization's "Media Center" drudged up on Israel's Foreign Minister, Tzippi Livni.

"Israel's incumbent foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was a Mossad agent and ran a series of killings against the Palestinians in Europe in the early 1980s, The Sunday Times says.

According to the daily, Livni's former colleagues have revealed that she traveled throughout Europe in the early 1980s, "taking out" Palestinians the intelligence agency had labeled as "terrorists."

Livni was on active service when Mamoun Meraish, a businessperson and a top lieutenant in the Palestine Liberation Organization, was shot dead by a Mossad hit squad in Athens on August 21, 1983.

Two young men on a motor bicycle, their faces covered by crash helmets, shot Meraish car as it waited at a traffic junction. They also wounded another Palestinian in the car and Meraish's three children, aged 4, 9 and 13.

The newspaper adds Livni was not directly involved in the killing but her role in Mossad is shrouded in mystery.

The Palestine Liberation Organization's mission in Athens at the time condemned the killing, saying it was "the work of Israeli agents and part of Israel's general policy to exterminate the people of Palestine".

I guess the PLO really wants Tzippi Livni as Prime Minister once Ehud Olmert is kicked out of office. This sort of bio will just impress Israelis even more that she's the right man for the job.

Just in case you think the PLO is making this stuff up, the story first appeared in today's Sunday Times, where they add a few more salient details about Livni and her lineage.

Her career was forged in the violent creation of Israel. Both her parents were arrested for terrorist crimes in the 1940s. Her mother Sarah, who died recently aged 85, was a leader of Irgun, the militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine at the time of the British mandate and whose exploits included train robbery.

“I was disguised as a pregnant woman and robbed a train carrying £35,000,” she said in an interview shortly before she died. “Then we blew up another train en route from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.”

Livni’s father, Eitan, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for attacking a British military base. He escaped.

Livni, unlike her parents supports a Palestinian state....

Despite her Mossad career (which depending on reports, Livni runs the gamut from anywhere from office secretary to commando), her affiliation with Kadima and Olmert has led some Israeli commenters to call her "Olmert in a Skirt".

I'm not quite sure what the dollar bill below is implying, but she's not on everyone's top 5 list. (Is Morris Talansky the new Lubavitcher Rebbe?)

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