It's like some kind collective hallucination — they dress like shepherds in the Bible, and they think they are creating a Judean state in which the Palestinians are the enemy tribes you have to fight forever. It not only doesn't fit with the ideals of a modern state, it doesn't even fit with the original ideals of the settlers themselves.
There is a school of thought here that says we are too quick to undermine our elected leaders.
I see a reshuffling coming. The party system has ceased to reflect the true political aspirations of the people.
The penny has dropped. Demography trumps everything.
Sharon won't make any concessions to Abbas, but we will hear a lot of positive rhetoric. Sharon now will play for time because obviously elections are what matters to him and he doesn't want to be perceived as giving in to the Arabs.
You get on one hand lots of representation, which is great, but you lose in governance. We now have 20 or so parties, and even the bigger ones may be getting only one fifth of the vote.
Failure to cut a deal may mean Israel is in for a long period of instability followed by new elections.
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