“A casual visitor landing in Israel and looking at the media coverage for Kadima’s leadership race would find it hard to believe that this party is the largest faction in the Knesset. The outsider would find it difficult to imagine that Kadima was a party that actually ran the country at one time and was born to govern.

It is also a party with pretentions to return to power, but the Kadima primary has been marked by apathy, a collective shrug of sorts. The two less-than-exciting candidates for the leadership, Tzipi Livni and Shaul Mofaz, gave us platitudes. She babbled on endlessly. He, on the other hand, went underground. So what distinguishes Livni from Mofaz when it comes to matters of foreign affairs, defense, social and economic policy, and constitutional issues? Who knows. Between you and me, I would say not much does, and it’s probably not very important anyway. Furthermore, the candidates didn’t even provide us with a decent dose of mudslinging.”

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