How is it possible that a prime minister who gave the peace process a humiliating burial, built dozens and thousands of housing units in Judea and Samaria and focused his election campaign on the premise that there’s no one to talk to [on the Palestinian side], has included Hatenua leader Tzipi Livni in his coalition before anyone else, given her a senior portfolio [Minister of Justice] and put her in charge of the diplomatic process?
It turns out that in Israel, anything is possible. Everything is political, everything is personal, everything goes in order to survive. Both of them, Livni and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are holding their noses and entering their joint kitchen because they have no choice. Netanyahu does not have a coalition. He has 20 mandates The Likud part, after the merger with Yisrael-Beiteinu party, she has six. Both of them need crutches in order to hobble along. And when there’s no other choice, each will be the other’s crutch. It’s not enough, but it’s a start.
