The Machane Tzioni leader, Avi Gabbay, today sent Tzippi Livni packing, informing her that he is breaking up the union and sent her packing.

Gabbay made this move on live television, with seemingly not having informed Livni in advance.

Goodbye and good luck to Tzippi Livni in finding her newest political base, having moved around way too many times in the past decade.

Still, while there was exciting drama in Gabbay's announcement, and I love some good political chaos, this was really inappropriate. It is fine to decide to break it up, but have the decency to tell her and let her react. Doing it on live tv is cruel. Perhaps Gabbay wanted to craft his own image as a powerful leader, an image that until now needed a big boost, but I am not sure this is the way...