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But three years ago she followed the then prime minister and Likud leader, Ariel Sharon, when he left the party, created his own movement, Kadima, or Forward. He argued that the dream of a Greater Israel from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan was unachievable and that the land should be shared with a Palestinian state. The creation of that Palestinian state is still a distant prospect, but many argue Livni is committed to a two-state solution to the seemingly intractable Middle East conflict.
Avraham Diskin, a political scientist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said Livni was more dovish than her challengers for the party leadership. "Ideologically everybody is now in the centre, people realise the risk and want to have peace and pay the price but the difference is in the nuances," he said. "But she is emotionally involved, not just ideologically, she is very interested and she is a believer."
Livni has been Israel's lead negotiator in the current talks with the Palestinians which began in Annapolis, in the United States, in November last year. With Livni as prime minister those talks could be expected to continue, perhaps even with a successful result. "With her there is a chance of a conclusion, of having a piece of paper. What happens after that is difficult. But she is very highly motivated," Diskin said.
However, the prospect of a peace agreement will depend just as heavily on the outcome of the US presidential elections. Even following a year of talks there are precious few signs of progress on the ground on the core issues and much evidence that the situation is slowly worsening
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/18/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast1
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