First, the good news:
The Labor Party on Tuesday voted to extend Shimon Peres’ term as party chairman until December 2005 by a majority of 61 percent.
That’s a huge relief – I was genuinely concerned that Labor was going to screw this up like they screwed up electing him President (although it’s tough not to see the hand of fate in that one – the state needed him a little bit later as Foreign Minister during the diplomatic nightmare that was the beginning of the current Intifada).
Now for the humorous part. Sometimes people kind of perform the answers to their own questions:
The Labor Party convention got off to a spirited start on Tuesday when MK Eitan Cabel called on the elder statesman to stand down…”Make way for the young, let us lead the party”
