shortly, and Livni starts subverting the government. The ultra-right-turned-ultra-left madam offered coalition partnership to the dregs of Israeli politics, Meretz communist party. Livni told Shas, a religious party, that she doesn’t need it in the government.
The only good thing about Livni’s coup is that many Israelis detest the crooked way she got the power: through primaries rather than elections. Livni has also lost the future votes of Sephardi Jews disgruntled by her maltreatment of Shaul Mofaz, a Sephardi candidate. By the time of general elections the next year, voters may get disenchanted with the empty Tzipi whose only advantage is that she did nothing worthy of mention, critical or otherwise. And that is actually untrue: Livni has pulled no less dirty tricks than other bureaucrats. For example, while a minister of absorption, she hired her close friend Mirla Gal as the ministry’s general director.
The state comptroller already investigates the numerous irregularities in Kadima primaries. Many people were recruited into the party with the only goal of voting in primaries for this or that candidate. There are allegations of Livni staff’ bribing exit pollsters to report her victory on the day of primaries to discourage Mofaz’ voters from wasting time going to polling booths.
How can Jews be called smart when the entire country, ultra-right to ultra-left, hunted down Olmert in order to replace him with Livni? Where will be find another realistically electable politician with Olmert credentials, the man who attacked Hezbollah on the first provocation (unlike Barak and the others), presided over the economy more robust than Netanyahu’s, declined populist calls to invade Gaza so that IDF would stuck in urban fights, bombed Syrian nuclear reactor despite opposition of his defense minister, and unlike every other Israeli prime minister in the last twenty years gave nothing whatsoever to Palestinians?
