ANALYSIS / Tzipi Livni is Israel's Barack Obama

If, as John Lennon and Yoko Ono said, "Woman is the N----r of the World," then Tzipi Livni is Israel's Barack Obama.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, Livni did not exploit the fact that she was a woman in order to get elected. She is also not married to one of the most beloved individuals in the world.

Instead, Livni won the Kadima primary despite being a woman, and despite being married to a private man who prefers to steer clear from the limelight. (Israeli comics - all of them men, of course - are now busy thinking up new puns on the old "Mr. Tzipi Livni and Mrs. President.")

And all this while Livni is zealously trying to protect the privacy of her family, and is probably the last person anyone would turn to for a Rosh Hashanah cake recipe.

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