Background / Will Sharon topple Sharon? A scandal guide .

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=382642&displayTypeCd=1&sideCd=1&contrassID=2

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"Ariel Sharon has done what no sitting Israeli prime minister has accomplished in more than 20 years: run for re-election and win.
He has done what no leader of the Likud has ever done: challenge the party's take-no-prisoners Central Committee on bedrock issues of the Middle East conflict - Palestinian statehood and dismantling settlements - and emerged strengthened in the public eye.

He has kept Shimon Peres' Labor in a government without even a semblance of peace talks on the horizon. He has kept the settlers' National Religious Party and the pro-transfer National Union in a coalition despite advocacy of unilateral IDF pullbacks and the removal of settlers from their homes.

Politically light on his feet as ever, he has deflected with little apparent strain the blistering attacks of the hard left and the militant right at home, as well as bids abroad to bring him to heel through war crimes tribunals and the United Nations.

Now, after nearly three years in office, it appears that the only force that can topple Sharon in the foreseeable future is Sharon himself. Specifically, the eventual fallout from one or more of the police probes that have been on the slow boil for much of his term, could be his downfall."

[bluesoul]

1. Hopefully

the sooner this RW war criminal is out of power, the better...

[GabysPoppy]

2. Be wary of what you wish for

For whatever his reasons, Sharon has been a lot more centrist these days. Whether his reasons are political, personal or pragmatic I have no idea. Should he be toppled and the terror of Hamas et al. continues, you will see the return of Bibi.

That might not be a welcome sight.

[bluesoul]

3. So there are only

bad choices in Israel? Is that what you are saying? No way the left would gain power?

[Lurking Dem]

4. Cart, meet Horse.

Israel's choices are being dictated by the situation they face.

[bluesoul]

5. Only bad choices

then...

[GabysPoppy]

6. .

:shrug:

[The Stranger]

8. It is the situation

that Likud and Sharon created. And now use as an excuse to remain in power.

It is a page taken from someone else running for re-election.

[sushi]

7. He wanted to topple Arafat

and now it could happen that he is out before Arafat!