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Friday, August 7, 2009

Mofaz in undelivered speech: Kadima offer nothing but celebritism

Kadima leadership candidate Shaul Mofaz wrote a speech for Thursday's Kadima council meeting in which he fiercely attacked current party head Tzipi Livni, but he chose not to deliver it.

In the speech, which was sent to reporters and published by news Web sites a full half hour before he spoke at the event, he compared Livni to vain celebrities, taunted her for temporarily transforming into a feminist ahead of February's election, and mockingly suggested that the Kadima council start voting by text message.

"If this is all we have to offer, let's replace [Kadima council chairman] Haim Ramon with [reality show host] Tzvika Hadar and [faction chairwoman] Dalia Itzik with [transgendered singer] Dana International," Mofaz wrote in the undelivered speech.