Sunday, June 01, 2008

It would not be the first time that a killer has become the prime minister of Israel. In fact, all Israeli prime ministers (with one exception or two) have been killers, and I mean that literally. "Tzipi Livni, was a Paris agent for Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence agency, in the early 1980s when it ran a series of missions to kill Palestinian terrorists in European capitals, according to former colleagues. They say Livni, now foreign minister, was on active service when Mamoun Meraish, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, was shot dead by a Mossad hit squad in Athens on August 21, 1983." (thanks Laleh)