Netanyahu Prepares to Install Labor Government
What a classy guy:
Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu will formally announce his candidacy for the Likud leadership on Tuesday and will call on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to publicly state that he will not quit the Likud and form another party if he loses the Likud primary...
A Dahaf Institute poll published in Yediot on Friday gave Netanyahu a lead over Sharon, 42 percent to 35%. The same poll found that Netanyahu would lose to Peres by 8% in a general election.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's 8% to a man who, as much as we respect him as one of Israel's founding fathers, has never won an election in the entire history of the country. That's about 60 years of not winning elections. But he's ahead of Netanyahu by a full 8 points - and given 45-50% support for disengagement, there's no way that number's soft. So clearly, what the Israeli right needs is for Netanyahu to immediately topple the Sharon government.
Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu will formally announce his candidacy for the Likud leadership on Tuesday and will call on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to publicly state that he will not quit the Likud and form another party if he loses the Likud primary...
A Dahaf Institute poll published in Yediot on Friday gave Netanyahu a lead over Sharon, 42 percent to 35%. The same poll found that Netanyahu would lose to Peres by 8% in a general election.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's 8% to a man who, as much as we respect him as one of Israel's founding fathers, has never won an election in the entire history of the country. That's about 60 years of not winning elections. But he's ahead of Netanyahu by a full 8 points - and given 45-50% support for disengagement, there's no way that number's soft. So clearly, what the Israeli right needs is for Netanyahu to immediately topple the Sharon government.
