Tzipi, Israel and the Gray Lady

From Jewcy.com:

The New York Times Magazine’s recent profile of Tzipi Livni is too lengthy to be dealt with in a single post, but a few issues spring immediately to attention. For one, the Times is once again (forgive the egregious pun) decidedly behind the times. With his successful survival of the Lebanon war report, appointment of Ehud Barak and installment of Shimon Peres in the presidency, Olmert seems to have outmaneuvered his opposition despite his low poll numbers. Tzipi’s half-rebellion non-rebellion hasn’t endeared her much to Israeli voters and, in country at least, the hype seems to be off. The profile doesn’t do a bad job of profiling Tzipi’s slightly bizarre charm (she somehow makes her total lack of charisma come off as charisma, don’t ask me how) but then meanders off into a general assessment of the conflict and Israel’s current historical-strategic position which, to me at least, appears to exist wholly in the mind of the reporter in question.