Why is Mofaz ditching Livni?

Here's what I don't understand: Yesterday Shaul Mofaz was ready to be the next prime minister. He lost the primary by all of 400 votes! Four hundred votes! The future of our country hangs on a crowd that can fit into one high school basketball gymnasium. Those 400 votes turned Mofaz from top leader to second in command. That's the entire difference in his status. Yet, this morning, when Mofaz wakes up to the news that he lost, suddenly, he realizes he doesn't even want to be in politics?! Over  400 votes? AND -- and here's the troubling part -- he won't even give the new leader Tsippi Livni the courtesy of meeting with her in the morning? He refuses to sit with her on her first day. Something smells fishy. Here it comes. I know, I know, I look at
everything with my gender hat on. But really, what it feels like to me, is that Mofaz can't handle being led by a woman. He lost to a woman and he completely lost face. That's what it feels like. The idea of just not being able to attend a meeting with Livni is beyond all reasonable behavior under the circumstances. I know this is of course all conjecture, without any proof. Heck, you could say I'm making it up. Yeah, maybe I am. But considering the status of women in Israel, considering what women have to do to get a little bit of respect, considering all of that, well, I can't help but wonder. Why doesn't Mofaz feel any sense of obligation, loyalty
or discipline to show Livni respect on her first day as leader? Why would he rather walk away completely than make that one little gesture of genuflection towards Livni? Any of you out there have thoughts on this?