Allison on Sharon’s firing of cabinet ministers in attempt to push through his disengagement plan over the objections of his party. Too funny.
Incidentally, I don’t agree with Sharon’s political manoeuverings. If this plan is in fact supported by the population, as he contended, he should have put it to a referendum vote from the start, instead of only a vote in the Likud party. That would have given him the mandate to go forward. Instead, he’s trying to short-circuit democracy, and on an issue as divisive as this one that can’t be a good idea.
Still, Sharon – the ultimate cat with 9 lives – is probably only on his third or fourth. He keeps bouncing back as analyst after analyst underestimates him. The world would be wise to realize this and understand the popular support he enjoys among Israelis, instead of writing him off as merely a hard-liner or yet another corrupt politician.