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	Amram Mitzna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amram Mitzna (Hebrew: עמרם מצנע; born February 20, 1945) is an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Haifa from 1993 to 2003.
		Mitzna resigned from the government shortly after, and Shimon Peres was elected as the new Labour leader.
		Early November 2005, Mitzna was appointed by Israeli Internal Affairs Minister as acting mayor of Yeruham, a town in the southern Negev region, after the elected mayor was forced to step aside, due to incompetence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amram_Mitzna (252 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Amram Mitzna: Labour's 'peace' hope
		Amram Mitzna, a former "dovish general", emerged from relative obscurity to head Israel's beleaguered Labour Party in November 2002.
		Mr Mitzna was born in 1945 on a kibbutz.
		Mr Mitzna served as IDF commander in the West Bank during the first Palestinian uprising, where he was said to be as tough as any other general in dealings with the Palestinians.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2478071.stm (556 words)

	Middle East Report Online: The Upcoming Elections in Israel, by Yoav Peled
		Mitzna's meteoric rise from the periphery of Labor politics right to the top was based on a promise to revive the peace process with the Palestinians, under whatever leadership they choose, including that of Yasser Arafat.
		Mitzna's candidacy is promoted by big Israeli capital, which has been sustaining serious losses due to the economic devastation caused by the combination of a global crisis and the flight of every form of foreign (and some domestic) capital, including tourism, because of the renewed conflict.
		Mitzna won the Labor primaries by going against the conventional wisdom and clearly articulating his dovish positions, and he seems determined to stay this course for the duration of the electoral campaign.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero120402.html (2348 words)

	Brit Tzedek v'Shalom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Amram Mitzna, the son of German Jewish refugees, was born at Kibbutz Dovrat in 1945.
		In November 1993, Amram Mitzna was elected mayor of Haifa and was reelected to a second term with a majority of 65% of the votes.
		In August 2002, Mitzna announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Labor party, and for the premiership ahead of 2003 elections, and in November 2002 was elected party chairman.
	www.btvshalom.org /conference/mitzna_bio.html (349 words)

	The Review - Mitzna's mission
		Mitzna is viewed as a good manager, an important attribute in light of the managerial problems that plagued former prime minister Ehud Barak before he was defeated early last year.
		Mitzna’s appeal also stems from the fact that he seems to be modifying Labor’s peace policies to a certain degree.
		Mitzna cited Sharon’s behaviour during the invasion of Lebanon and especially in regards to the Sabra and Shatila massacres as the reasons for his move.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/2002/2712/mitzna.html (1592 words)

	Amram Mitzna (1945-)
		Amram Mitzna was born at Kibbutz Dovrat in 1945.
		Mitzna was elected Mayor of Haifa and has served in that capacity since November 1993.
		Mitzna was re-elected mayor of Haifa in November 1998 for a second term by 65% of the electorate.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/BIOS/mitsna.html (471 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mitzna said his first task would be to unite the party “as one big beehive, a joint staff, in order to lead the Labor Party in the most important of all confrontations, with the Likud,” the Ha’aretz newspaper reported.
		Mitzna, 57, is a former general who clashed with then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon during the 1982 Lebanon War and commanded Israeli troops in the West Bank during the first intifada in the late 1980s.
		Mitzna’s stance toward the Palestinians — and his insistence that disengaging from the Palestinians will allow Israel to focus on its own domestic problems — is likely to appeal to left-wing voters who complained that their voices weren’t heard during the 19 months of national unity government.
	www.jta.org /story.asp?id=021119-mitz (1118 words)

	Amram Mitzna: Israeli left lines up behind yet another former general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mitzna is being catapulted to centre stage by the desire of the Labour Party’s left wing to distance itself from figures discredited by their association with Sharon and wishing to put on a clean shirt to cover their own political crimes.
		Mitzna is among the most decorated veterans in Israel, a tank commander who was wounded three times in one battle in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and again in the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
		Mitzna boasts that his letter forced the commission of inquiry into the massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen at the Sabra and Shatilla, which led Sharon to resign.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/aug2002/mitz-a24.shtml (1360 words)

	Israel's War-Weary Left Gets New Hope
		Amram Mitzna, center right, the mayor of the Israeli port city of Haifa and, according to polls, front-runner in the elections for the Labor Party leadership is hugged by a supporter during a visit to a polling station in downtown Jerusalem Tuesday Nov.
		Mitzna is running against current Labor leader, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who served as defense minister in a so-called national unity government with Ariel Sharon and legislator Haim Ramon.
		Mitzna may take the party, but the odds are very heavily against him persuading the country that Labour is once again a viable alternative to the seemingly intractable status quo.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/1119-04.htm (1443 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mitzna and party secretary Ophir Pines agreed to convene party organizations within 10 days to discuss whether new primaries would be held or a temporary leader appointed.
		Mitzna is a former general who clashed with then-defence minister Ariel Sharon during the 1982 Lebanon War and commanded Israeli troops in the West Bank during the first intifadah in the late 1980s.
		Mitzna also continued an Israeli tradition of white knights with little political experience who had only a short tenure on the national stage — Ehud Barak and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak were two other ex-generals seen briefly as political saviours, but whose stars quickly burned out.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=403 (526 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| An unlikely dove
		Mitzna was born on a kibbutz in 1945, but his parents moved to Haifa when he was eight.
		Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Mitzna's stance is his support of the security fence that is being built along the course of the Green Line that separated Israel from the Palestinian territories until 1967.
		Mitzna's bottom line is that the present policy of maintaining the occupation permanently must end.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/comment/0,10551,804343,00.html (2062 words)

	Arutz 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mitzna, who is currently the Mayor of Haifa, won a decisive victory in yesterday's primaries, bringing in a surprising 53.9% of the vote.
		Mitzna has his work cut out for him, as polls predict that the Likud party will thrash Labor in the Knesset elections at the end of January.
		It is not clear whether Mitzna was happy with Arafat's gleeful vote of confidence, in light of warnings by Ben-Eliezer that a Mitzna win would cause many "centrist" voters to vote for the Likud and not for Mitzna's extreme left-wing policies.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=news&id=34055 (451 words)

	Amram Mitzna
		Mitzna did not decide all by himself to leave his comfortable chair in Haifa City Hall and leap into the murky waters of national politics.
		Mitzna, like Barak before him, and like the majority, is stuck with a notion that has proved to be a non-starter: the assumption that any alternative must be based on the military and economic superiority of Israel.
		Mitzna often speaks with pride of Haifa as a mixed city, where tolerance and co-existence reign.
	www.hanitzotz.com /challenge/75/Mitzna.htm (2854 words)

	CNN.com - New Israeli Labor leader faces uphill battle - Nov. 20, 2002
		Amram Mitzna is elected to lead Israel's Labor Party.
		Amram Mitzna, mayor of the port city of Haifa and a former general, won the Labor primary Tuesday but faces an uphill fight against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party in the January elections.
		Mitzna has left the door open to negotiating with Arafat, while Sharon has said he will not resume peace negotiations until the Palestinian Authority is under new leadership.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/11/20/israel.politics (851 words)

	Haaretz - Elections 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In September 1982, Mitzna wrote a letter to then-chief of staff Rafael Eitan, saying he had lost confidence in then-defense minister Ariel Sharon because of the minister's behavior during the invasion of Lebanon.
		Mitzna won a majority of 65 percent of votes in the his race for a second term.
		Mitzna advocated immediate negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions, adding that if it cannot find a there is no one to talk to, Israel should seek "security separation" from the territories.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArtElection.jhtml?itemNo=231946&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y (764 words)

	An Interview with Amram Mitzna
		By month's end, Amram Mitzna may well be known either as the man who led the Labor Party to its most improbable victory or to its most crushing defeat.
		Mitzna is a hard man - he was decorated for bravery in both the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars; as head of the Central Command in the first intifada, he demolished scores of Palestinian homes.
		Amram Mitzna says that we will withdraw under agreement from less than 100% of the area.
	www.aijac.org.au /updates/Jan-03/100103.html (4359 words)

	Labor Party's uphill fight / Israel voters can't see its leader as next prime minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mitzna has rejected similar pressure to isolate the Palestinian Authority and its leader Yasser Arafat, and says he will immediately begin talks if he comes to power in order to seize the initiative back from extremists.
		The son of German Holocaust survivors, Mitzna grew up on a Kibbutz communal farm, attended a military high school, and had a noteworthy military career of his own during which he was decorated twice for his bravery in the 1967 and 1973 Middle East wars.
		Mitzna's more serious Achilles heel is his lack of experience in national politics.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/01/20/MN142298.DTL&type=printable (1340 words)

	Ariga: 5763: Mitzna's Mitzva, by Robert Rosenberg, August 18 2002
		So, some facts: Mitzna was a young brigadier heading the army staff college when he announced he could not support then-defense minster Ariel Sharon's 1982 campaign in Lebanon.
		Mitzna won, largely because then-mayor Aryeh Gorel was so clearly past his prime, still believing in machine politics even though the law had been changed for mayoral candidates to run directly for office instead of at the head of a party list.
		Mitzna combined quiet charisma, readiness to work, his ability to put together a loyal staff of professionals, and his stubborn insistence that once committed he would get the job done, to beat the pants off Gorel.
	www.ariga.com /5763/2002-08-18-rbr-mitzna.shtml (800 words)

	Israel: An attempt to resuscitate the Labour Party
		Mitzna replaces Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who became party leader after the defeat of Ehud Barak’s Labour government in February 2001 and served as Minister of Defence in Ariel Sharon’s Likud-Labour coalition government—much to the increasing disquiet of Labour Party members.
		Thus inviting Mitzna, the leader of the opposition, is a significant rebuff to Sharon.
		Mitzna’s sole proviso is that he would include only the larger settlements within Israel and re-house the rest of the settlers.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/dec2002/mitz-d09.shtml (1787 words)

	News - Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
		Amram Mitzna sets out his budget priorities, says he has no obligation to his wealthy supporters, and admits there are economic subjects he has yet to learn: NIS 2-3 billion is the sum that newly elected Labor Party chairman Amram Mitzna says Israel spends every year on Jewish settlements in the territories.
		Amram Mitzna, the clear winner in the Tuesday's Labor Party leadership primary, is acting to head off a challenge to his authority at the helm of the largest faction in the Knesset.
		Amram Mitzna, who became the Labor Party's new chairman and candidate for prime minister Tuesday night, is liable to discover that the first race for the party leadership is the easy part.
	www.vtjp.org /news/newsarchives112002.htm (2666 words)

	MER - The Next Israeli Labor Party General - Mitzna
		Mitzna has taken heat himself, as commander of the West Bank during the first Palestinian uprising, when many of the Israeli Army's methods, most notably breaking the arms of stone throwers, came under sharp criticism.
		Mitzna is less a reflection of his attributes than of the vacuum in the Labor leadership.
		Mitzna's drive fizzles, he has already demonstrated how desperately the Israeli left, what used to be called the "peace camp," yearns for someone to rally its dispirited ranks.
	www.middleeast.org /launch/redirect.cgi?num=172&a=9 (1240 words)

	Israel: Mitzna sweeps to Labor Party victory; Ben-Eliezer: `We'll not become Meretz II
		Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna, who entered national politics in August on a dovish platform promising to withdraw from the territories and negotiate with the Palestinians under fire, last night won the Labor Party chairmanship, defeating the incumbent Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and challenger Haim Ramon by a wide margin.
		Mitzna's next hurdle in taking control of the party is tomorrow's party convention, which will be asked by Ben-Eliezer ally MK Ephraim Sneh to change the nomination process for Labor's Knesset list from an open race to the 5,000 convention members voting for the candidates.
		Mitzna, due late last night at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, said after arriving at his campaign headquarters in Haifa that he reckons he will manage to work out a compromise before the convention tomorrow.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/792164/posts (914 words)

	Amram Mitzna: Candidate for Prime Minister of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mitzna served as mayor of Haifa propagating peaceful coexistence between the Jews and the Arabs of that city.
		Mitzna resembles a typical colonialist with a military background who has nothing but contempt for the Palestinians, but wants to do things by the book and keep his slate clean.
		Among Mitzna's early statements after announcing his candidacy was a pledge to withdraw from Gaza and to resume negotiations with the Palestinians.
	www.stelling.nl /konfront/1e2003/16302.html (1559 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 23. Gen. Election. Gershom Gorenberg. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The party convention was ending unexpectedly early, as Mitzna's overwhelming victory had persuaded backers of ex-party chief Binyamin Ben-Eliezer to drop a challenge on how to pick Knesset candidates for Israel's Jan. 28 elections.
		In the Nov. 19 primary, Mitzna won by a 15 percent margin.
		More substantively, Mitzna's promised deadline for leaving Gaza is a reminder of Barak's habit of setting deadlines, as though he could command events to fit his schedule.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/23/gorenberg-g.html (1670 words)

	indymedia germany \| Amram Mitzna: Candidate for Prime Minister of Israel \| 14.12.2002 09:03
		Mitzna, a candidate unsullied by participation in the Sharon government, is the new hope for a fresh start.
		According to Hadas Ladav in Challenge Magazine (September, 2002), General Mitzna was responsible for the demolition of 121 houses, 28 deportations, and the killing of 302 and injury of 3252 Palestinians from December 1987 until March 1989.
		Mitzna was called on to leave his comfortable life as mayor of Haifa and become the Labor candidate for Prime Minister by supporters who see their business interests in the Middle East jeopardized by the continuation of the conflict and deterioration in relations between Israel and its neighbors.
	de.indymedia.org /2002/12/36819.shtml (1598 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| Mitzna and prospects for peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		This is why the sudden election of Amram Mitzna as Israeli Labour Party leader and his bold vision for reviving the peace process offer the first glimmer of light in the otherwise oppressive darkness.
		Some might argue that Mitzna's proposals still fall short of what is necessary to realise a comprehensive settlement -- he has not, for example, acknowledged that the 1967 borders should constitute one of the bases of a settlement.
		While Sharon's popularity is still high, Mitzna should be able to chip away at that through a rhetoric focusing on the prime minister's dismal failure to deliver on his promises, especially with regard to security.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/617/op1.htm (1420 words)

	Pravda.RU:The Fight of Doves and Hawks is Coming in Israel
		Mitzna was exasperated after the massacre in Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila.
		Mitzna is intended to get back to the promises that were given by Israel's last Prime Minister from the Labor Party, Ehud Barak.
		Mitzna specified that his suggestion would go together with the withdrawal of the requirement pertaining to the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/11/22/39852_.html (750 words)

	Mitzna refuses to join Sharon-led coalition -DAWN - International; February 4, 2003
		Mr Mitzna said there was no reason for centre-left Labour to recreate a bloc with the right-wing Likud which collapsed in October, because Sharon continued to rule out scrapping Jewish settlements on land where Palestinians are fighting occupation.
		Mitzna repeated that Labour would head the opposition in parliament after the January 28 election and urged the centrist Shinui party not to link up either with Likud, which doubled its seat total in a voter backlash against Palestinian bloodshed.
		Mitzna is counting on Sharon having to resort to an alliance with small far-right parties hostile to peace moves and unlikely in analysts’ eyes to last long, precipitating new elections.
	www.dawn.com /2003/02/04/int4.htm (650 words)

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