How much corruption and political opportunism is the Israeli public expected to swallow?

sold his sole for a plate of soup he was one of those troijan horses

Mr. Sharon wanted to continue the current team of effective leaders, Olmert, Mofaz, Peres, etc. Moderate, pragmatic leadership without the morons known as "Likud rebels" around his neck. He couldn't do it in the Likud and now he's doing it without the Likud. This is classic Sharon - he is a pragmatic, strong leader, not perfect, but by far the best there is on the world stage today. Kol ha'kavod, Arik.

So what; we know they are mostly all in it for what they can get for themselves. There were/are a few notable exceptions like Shulamit Aloni, Jael Dayan, Colette Avital and some others on the left wing and in the Arab parties but apart fom that we know just what to expect.