Comments on: Losing Sharon … http://donklephant.com/2006/01/06/losing-sharon/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: probligo http://donklephant.com/2006/01/06/losing-sharon/comment-page-1/#comment-5075 probligo Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:02:41 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1660#comment-5075 News this morning - Peretz has been reported as saying that he is prepared to lead Kadima, giving it as much creditbility as he gave the Labor Party. Olmert, on the other hand, has been entrusted with State leadership by Sharon. Most importantly he does not have (to my knowledge) the historical baggage of Sharon, Peretz, and Netenyahu. So, Olmert may well be the greatest hope. Who will the US back? My guess Netenyahu. Oh dear! How sad! Never mind... News this morning -

Peretz has been reported as saying that he is prepared to lead Kadima, giving it as much creditbility as he gave the Labor Party.

Olmert, on the other hand, has been entrusted with State leadership by Sharon. Most importantly he does not have (to my knowledge) the historical baggage of Sharon, Peretz, and Netenyahu.

So, Olmert may well be the greatest hope.

Who will the US back? My guess Netenyahu. Oh dear! How sad! Never mind…

]]> By: lgude http://donklephant.com/2006/01/06/losing-sharon/comment-page-1/#comment-5051 lgude Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:17:33 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1660#comment-5051 Nice summary and best I've read so far. I've been thinking along similar lines and am afraid that there is too little time for the new center to regroup and hold. I don't think Labor has the answers nor do I think Israel will vote them in, but the Likud is now isolated on the right. By splitting the Likud Sharon reduced his base and it will be hard from any successor to draw enough support from potential labor voters to make up the difference. I assume the right will be capably led by Netenyahu and will retain its hard right constituency. It was a tough ask with Sharon well; now it looks like it will be hard to sustain the current momentum even though a lot of people must have come to the view that Sharon's way was better than the other two alternatives. I expect that we'll end up with a center right coalition between Sharon's new party and Likud. In other words back where Sharon started. Nice summary and best I’ve read so far. I’ve been thinking along similar lines and am afraid that there is too little time for the new center to regroup and hold. I don’t think Labor has the answers nor do I think Israel will vote them in, but the Likud is now isolated on the right. By splitting the Likud Sharon reduced his base and it will be hard from any successor to draw enough support from potential labor voters to make up the difference. I assume the right will be capably led by Netenyahu and will retain its hard right constituency. It was a tough ask with Sharon well; now it looks like it will be hard to sustain the current momentum even though a lot of people must have come to the view that Sharon’s way was better than the other two alternatives. I expect that we’ll end up with a center right coalition between Sharon’s new party and Likud. In other words back where Sharon started.

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