Is Olmert running in circles? :)
I don’t know.
There’s multiple things going on:
1) trying to keep Netenyahu from being the next PM.
2) rationally realizing that having the government collapse will cause headaches for all involved.
3) infighting between the left and right, religious (and their reluctance to be relocated out of areas destined to become palestinian territory) and secular, peaceniks and warbirds.
So far, Olmert has been able to ride the whirlpool. But he might fall yet. There are a lot of people who want to pull him off the board he’s riding....
This is wild:
02:51 Kadima to ask Likud to join coalition if Labor Party pulls out (Haaretz)