Olmert bars Livni from attending UN Security Council sessions

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By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent

The cabinet began Thursday its marketing plan to the Security Council to secure the end of the war and play up Israel's successes. Then the obligatory crisis erupted: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert barred Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni from attending the United Nations Security Council sessions.

Livni has been planning the trip for several days. She planned to address the council,speak to colleagues and meet the Jewish community. But Olmert said "No." His reasons were that Livni asked for his approval too late, that there was no point going after the resolution was drafted, and that Foreign Ministry professionals objected. But that was just the cover. Olmert brought his lingering animosity to Livni out into the open.
A short time after the fighting erupted, Olmert pushed Livni out of his close circle.

When he read she was displaying "independence," he sent Shimon Peres for diplomatic talks overseas. Thursday, one of his aides said: "Livni has been telling journalists for three days that she's going to the UN, but remembered to get Olmert's approval an hour and a half before taking off."

Livni objected to continuing with the military operation, which, she believes, had consummated itself in the first two days. She voted against bombarding Hezbollah headquarters in the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut for fear of escalation. Since then, she has supported the decisions, but kept a low profile. She did not run from one television studio to another to justify the war and muster support for ground operations. She sought a diplomatic solution

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/749587.html

[AlamoDemoc]

1. My thinking is that she is a female and she sympathizes with

many Lebanese mothers loosing their children to bombs.

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2. I understand

Just because she's a woman and she sympathizes with Lebanese mothers? Well that would mean that all of the men in the Israeli government actually look forward to watching Lebanese children die, and sit around smoking cigars and telling gory stories?

It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that she may have thought this war was escaleted for the wrong reasons? No her feelings have to do with the fact that she is a female?

[AlamoDemoc]

3. That was my first reaction to her thinking on the subject

Of course she is politician and could have many other reasons that she could appose on the Israeli bombs over Lebanon, but as I stated before that was "my thinking" of her disagreement on innocent killings.