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Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has won the ruling Kadima party’s election, which could make her the second female Prime Minister in that country, after Golda Meier. Livni replaces Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is stepping down as in the face of corruption allegations. Her campaign of political change has been likened to Barack Obama’s campaign for president here in the US. Livni is a former lawyer and intelligence operative with the Mossad. Considered a political moderate, she is Israel’s top negotiator in the current round of U.S. brokered peace talks with the Occupied Palestinian territories. In fact, some Arabs have viewed her win as a sign of hope for the peace process. Once Olmert officially steps down Livni will have 42 days to form a new coalition government and if she does so successfully she will likely be the next Prime Minister. But who exactly is Tzipi Livni and does she really represent hope for a peace process?

GUEST: Uri Davis, anthropologist in the field of Middle east and Palestine with a focus on “aparthied instruments of the state of Israel,” member of Fatah, observer member of the Palestine National Council, member of the Preparatory Committee of the Haifa Conference in Support of the Right of Return and the Secular and Democrat State of Palestine