DÉJÀ VU

It is a déjà vu because it involves Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. After all, if Sharon doesn't make it (and the prospects are not good), then we might be seeing a great deal of Bibi again.

It is painful. And it will mean that whatever Sharon has accomplished (regardless of intentions and actual long term results) will be lost.

New walls will be built, new settlements will be planned, new conflicts will arise. Nothing good has ever come from Bibi. It is hard to imagine that he would be capable of really progressive leadership all of a sudden.

Maybe he needs to pass his seventieth birthday in order to become a little more palatable. Like Sharon. But then again, maybe this is a matter of character. And most likely, it is.