Kadima slips one; Labor and Likud hold steady

Majority is 61 - standings are:

Kadima	37
Labor	18
Likud	16
Shas	10
Yisrael Beteinu	10
Arab Parties	8
United Torah	6
Meretz	5

If Ehud Olmert can sharpen his profile and stop the slide that would give a pretty good center coalition were he could select the most rational (behind doors) of the religious parties. A stable and movable peace coalition with noticable successes would be the one thing that did in Bibi and his Arabian counterparts for a long time or ever. In times of gravest danger, hope must prevail. Olmert might have been a rather corrupt and greedy guy but now - we believe - he is the expression of system rationality which is something we have quite a lot of trust in. Look at his kids.

ANTSNITAS¹: The disgrace of Mapai veterans

Instead of welcoming the fact that a worker from Sderot made it almost to the top, instead of saying that this is precisely what democracy is for, an ugly scorning of the man began, depicting him as "not one of us."

¹And Now To Something Nearby In Time And Space

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