According to the Telegraph anyway, Israel is likely to soon have a female prime minister. Its second, of course, the first having been Golda Meir, who played, or at least was portrayed in the classic “Iron Lady” mode. But interestingly the new contender, Tzipi Livni is presenting herself very differently:
Miss Livni has revealed that she has had to struggle against the boys’ club atmosphere at the top levels of Israeli decision-making.
“Sometimes there are guy issues,” she said in a recent interview. Asked if there had been a “guy problem” in the conduct of the Lebanon war, she replied: “Not only in the war. In all kinds of discussions, I hear arguments between generals and admirals and such and I say, ‘Guys, stop it.'”
She is, perhaps inevitably, from the right, but on this account anyway she is appealing to the centre…
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