Whether she has the right to call upon Livni to join her "camp" (lets not loose the sight of whose ideology she is trying to revive!) in order to change the political order of Israel's future, is a hotly debatable question, which I lean towards a catastrophic results if she advances to the level of Premiereship (no, not because she is a woman, we are talking about competitive vision of The State of Israel's in the years to come, and I do hope that some Berdugo, Toledano woman jumps in with a better agenda). We know the culture, the legacy of Labour: it is the Mapai of the poor past, when only some parts of the society was inherently beneficiary of the 'affection' of the party. Read Ben-Gurion, Golda and even Peres. We are looking forward to a different make up of the next Government, which includes members that have a new vista, a new norm of discussion, rather than the old inneficient, 19thcentury holders of an ideology that is becoming an obstacle rather that renaissance of the Jewish people in the formation of a Nation.

Livni is way too selfish to put her ego aside and be a team player.

Labor is leftist & its policies - economic & political have been failures.

If Livni runs the left vote will be split between Labor and the party Livni is heading so even if voters do vote for the left as the vote is split neither party will get enough seats to topple Bibi as the leftist Knesset votes will. To make it worse as far as both of them are concerned they are both women so neither can exclusively go after the female vote which Livni did so successfully last time. As bad as she is Livni is better known than Shelly Y and can say she has experience which will probably any hopes Shelly Y had to at the very least be leader of a strong opposition will be blown. I am furious with Bibi over Gaza but he is still better than any of that lot so the more the leftist vote is split the better.

Yehimovitch, one of the people responsible for helping Hezbolla take over Lebanon. Livni, her only achievement, making sure Hezbolla was safe after Lebanon II.

I guess we will know if and when rockets start flying toward Tel Aviv and Jerusalem again, huh? The will of the people said to destroy Hamas and that did not happen. Someone will have to pay for that if this truce fails.

Scott Labor is more socialist now than they have been in a decade. If Labor were a socialist party before its probably going to resemble Meretz than Labor. Shelly has been trying to recruit the stars of the social justice movement and of course she is very big on the traditional of Labor policy, making concessions for the peace process. She will of course be a big spender because thats what the social justice mob and the traditional socialists want and to do that she will follow Greece's example by borrowing big and blame all the countries problems on the rich. She will be Obama's darling and when he says jump she will say I would love to mr president just say how high. Israeli Eli Yishai would make a better PM than the Yachimovich, Livni and Lapid.