Livni’s parents were fighters in the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a right-wing Zionist guerilla group that fought against the British occupation of Palestine in the 1940s. Nicknamed “Mrs. Clean” for ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SPEECH) TZIPI LIVNI: They had a dream. And they believe in the rights of the Jewish people on the entire land. ESTRIN: Meaning her parents believed Israel should rule over the West ...

On a dreary Wednesday in late September, Tzipi Livni, the leader of the opposition ... in 1999 as a member of Netanyahu’s Likud. Her parents had been ardent members of the Irgun, the pre-state ...

18 -- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday narrowly won the ... Her family has long been in the public eye, however: Her parents were prominent members of the Irgun, the underground ...

“Tzipi Livni? It’s too big for her,” Likud ... talking about the home in which she grew up. Both her parents were members of the underground Irgun, which fought British forces in prestate ...

So Livni’s parents were Irgun “freedom fighters”? Why should they not be condemned as “terrorists”? Or is this term reserved only for those expelled from their homes and land by ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SPEECH) TZIPI LIVNI: They had a dream. And they believe in the rights of the Jewish people on the entire land. ESTRIN: Meaning her parents believed Israel should rule over the West ...