The largest party in Israel is selecting its leader on Tuesday, but this political event is not attracting much attention. Thus it is the most persuasive illustration possible for the decline of that party, the main opposition party, Kadima. A party that blew in like a storm - after its founder, Ariel Sharon, left Likud over his daring Gaza disengagement plan - is now slowly dying. For the first time in Israeli history, a party other than Labor or Likud became the biggest. Now, seven years after it was created, it is slowly being wiped off the political map. Israel has probably never known such a resounding political failure.
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