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...Bibi comes back...
...That will be decided in the next month. One of the factors that may determine whether Barak is challenged for leadership is whether Bibi is going to run. Nobody wants to run against Bibi, who right now beats everyone else in the polls. Many powerful figures in the Likud detest Bibi, but they know that he's the one who can win. They see him as having left the party in a political and organizational mess, and now, just as they're bringing down Barak's government, he steps back in to claim the spoils. Many Likud members of parliament...
...What about Sharon's renewed interest in a unity government - is that just a maneuver to hold off Bibi's challenge for Likud leadership...
...course he also genuinely believes that he can help, and that it's not going to be good for Israel to have an election going on at a time of crisis. But it is very much colored by the fact that he knows if he goes up against Bibi, he's going to end up losing, and at best end up being foreign minister...
...where Arafat sits, Barak looks desperate, and that means the Palestinian leader can push for a more favorable deal than the one he was offered at Camp David. If Arafat had a plan, it's certainly falling into place. So just as the right wing in Israel kicked out Bibi and then ended up with a left-of-center government instead, so this time the right may have forced Barak to go out and offer Arafat even more than he did before - and if he gets a deal, he can take it to the electorate...