Come on Emmanuel, do you really think that Olmert is going to compete with Netanyahu in the 2017 elections at the age of 72?

mr rosen is so full of hate to netanyahu, he is blinded by unrealistic wishes from an ugly other planet. i suggest coming down to earth, start thinking realistically & smelling the coffee here

Olmert is the lowest from of Israeli politician. Olmert incites the world against Israel. Olmert who lost the second Lebanon war with his inability to make good decisions. Olmert who is not satisfied with one arab terrorist state in Gaza, but wants a second arab terrorist state in Judea and Samaria Olmert who all his life claims to be Herut-Likud under his domineering wife is in reality left wing meretz. Olmert indicted for crimes of greed and avarice against the people of israel, the nation. Olmert who goes to the United States to critiicize the current government, when he has done worse. Olmert a self centered, egotistical, ...... .

Israeli society is waiting for new leadership and that will happen with Moshe Feiglin and the new ideas which he and his camp will bring unto the national discourse. His ideas overlap left and right as well as go beyond them. He has true vision, is realistic with a healthy dose of values. This might be an exaggeration but he might have the same weight as Ben Gurion in deciding the character and form of the country. Now that he is firmly on his way to become a MK, he will use his immunity to bring fresh ideas to the rotten dysfunctional Knesset, reinvigorate the national debate and eventually set the country on the correct path. If he is not the leader of the Likud by 2017, (chances for that possibility are realistic given Netanyahu's old age), he will definitely be by 2020. By then the political scene might be one of major camps (three or four) instead of the divided spectrum we see today. The old guard of Likud and others for that mattter are on their way out.

president (of something) and Tzipi also move here family to US to be closer to Obama. That is al for now.

It is utterly insulting to the intelligence of the general public to determine so vehemently in December that the January Elections have already been decided. Even more so when none of the Parties has yet swung into propoganda nor electioneering action. Are the People so stupid that you - (whoever wrote the above Article), - can read all our minds 6 weeks in advance ? Is there not a single democratic twitch left in us ? Is there no point in voting therefore ? Except for Bibi of course, for clearly you are his mouthpiece. Is this Israel's fabled democracy ? Oh Stalin !! Thou shoulds't be living at this Hour !!

The problem is, Aharon, the intelligence of the general public.

Bibi is going to lose seats to Lapid & Livni primarily I think over this issue of the haredi draft although I doubt it will be more than 3-4 still leaving him with a healthy majority. Livni will be invited into the coalition because Bibi wants somebody to counter the nationalist camp and it keeps her quiet although I doubt she will get anything as senior as foreign minister. The top slots are reserved for Likud & Liberman's lot. Olmert will win his appeal over Holyland although its to late now for him to form his own party and Kadima are the only ones who still love him but they will be lucky to get 1 seat and they have held their primaries already so he can't replace Mofaz. Lapid might get 6-7 seats although Bibi might offer him a junior sot in the coalition just to keep him quiet. Shelly is just going to make speeches about social justice and the peace process until people get board of them. Of course if the Mayans are right the world is going to end sometime in December so there will be 2013 election which would add an interesting twist.

Feiglin is now going to show why he will never become head of the Likud. Expect little or nothing from him. The man is all talk. Besides, except for his perceived votes, he is disliked in the Likud by 80% of the members. They just like his votes on election day. And what would you expect from a guy that traded his votes with the 3 sleasiest MK's in the Likud - Yisrael and Haim Katz and Sylvan Shalom. That is who feiglin pushed on election day. Not Danon, Hotovely, Elkin, Edelstein and Yaalon.

haber is a decent guy but that he wishes for olmert shows how weak he is, how much he would sign a chamberlain death certificate and give abbas any concessions that would even kill israel because haber is petrified of war. Eitana, e ven if 6 million israelis go down fighting, they must fight for their independence and not buy into any bs peace arrangements with arabs that are bull. Israelis must have defensible borders and control over their own security and no sharing arrangments or stupid dumb olmert condo arrangements with arabs. and haber, what exactly did olmert,you, peres, beilin, ben ami, sarid, amir oren, what did you guys do in warfare to fight for the state-almost nothing!!!

I would love to see peace but Israeli governments, both center-left Rabin-Peres-Barak and right,Sharon-Olmert-Netanyahu have tried that . and it has not worked. Mr. Rosen though presents no alternative. He is satisfied with whining, well we have all heard that ad infinitum. Opinions are cheap when there are no consequences such as reality. More opeds? now that's predictable.