Hold onto power at any cost even if it leads to world condemnation. The difference is that Russia has a "veto" in the UN and all that Israel has is a "friend" who needs the Jewish vote in 2012 and would probably be very happy if the thorn in his side just disappeared. There is to doubt that Silvan Shalom and Moshe Feigelin are no competition for our Bibi and cannot stop his quest for power even if he takes Israel into a war in which we will stand alone and our only hope is that the IDF can fend off our enemies.

We old time Likudnicks will be happy to replace him

general gallant has called on israel to be ready to root out key terror in gaza that it had not attended to. The only problem is that ehud barak will not do it today or tommorrow other than a few missile shots. i know enough about his record as chief of staff that he is a failed set piece land general whose commando exploits were exaggereated to help him much like rabin. Rabin was a good general but- remember in 67 surrounded by 3 arab nations, he suffered bed rest for several days from exhaustion as he could not take the heat;ezer weitzman carried the ball until rabin recovered. Barak record in the marmora pretty much says everything you need to know. he won't do anything. To get israel ready, it needs to rush 10 iron dome batteries to the field and rafael should be doubleshifting around the clock to get them ready. It needs to appoint yaalon to replace barak and appoint gallant as special general to advise gantz. Eitam should be brought back to stiffen israel in the north and to block 40,000 hezbollah forces who are ready to cross and take over a gallillee town and hold it with missiles threatening the rest of israel. any generals like halutz should be replaced with can do sharon and orr types who can improvise after initial setbacks.