If you are going to report from Israel, why this garbage, which is not even good election propaganda. Kadimah has not issued their platform yet and I’m sure it will not include the word “suicide.”
In Israel there is no such thing as a majority government and there is no support among the public for any treaty that will lose the country half its capital Jerusalem or any of the larger settlements in Judea and Samaria or rights to the underground water there.
You need 61 seats to form a majority. In the latest poll Kadimah (Livni) and Likud (Netanyahu) are tied at 30 apiece. They are both centre-right parties. Labor, the party of Oslo, the elite, and the crowd that ruled from Independence (left wing), is tanking at 12, Beitanu (right wing) is at 11, Shas (Sephardi-haredi) at 8, and Meretz (left wing) at 7. Shas always polls less than what they get, so you can jack them up. Do your math, whoever goes in, unless it’s a Kadimah-Likud coalition, will need Shas, and in recent years they have swung sharply to the right.
Kadimah by putting four women in the top 10 spots is coming on strong, but it will depend on the platform since Livni is an unknown quantity although her number two, Mofaz, the former chief of staff, is as strong on protecting Israel’s future as Netanyahu. They also have the best justice minister, Friedmann, we’ve ever had because he’s knocking down the exaggerated influence of the Supreme Court which no one ever dared to do before. On the other hand Bibi has been strengthened by the return of Benny Begin, who still has wide appeal.
If the economy goes in a tailspin following world events, that will be the issue that voters cast their ballots on, not foreign affairs. In this case Bibi as a successful finance minister in the past has the edge.