We are getting really tired of this

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/435233.html

Sharon is going all the way, he's not going all the way, he has a majority, he doesn't have a majority - for a long time we've been meaning to tell you politicians that we're really getting tired of all this. It's our fate you're toying with, with your haggling and squabbling and other foolish pursuits. You have turned this country into a game of political marbles, or to paraphrase the words of the poet Bialik, in reference to a different game, you're a bunch of clowns rolling your balls around.
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But let's go on to Sharon's strategic advisors. How could they have given him such dumb advice - holding a referendum for card-carrying Likudniks - which ended in a humiliating defeat? While Sharon was not wrong when he predicted that most Likudniks would support him, the people who were given the vote were not the electorate but members of the party, where the settlers and the far-right rule the roost. In this way, Sharon was put in the embarrassing position of allowing a bunch of fanatics to dictate to the majority on the issue of Israel's continued presence in Gaza.
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If Sharon's proposal is pushed through on Sunday, by whatever haggling, squabbling or booby-trapping methods best achieve the aim of not deciding to evacuate settlements at this stage of the game, one wonders how relevant Sharon will be when the time for dismantling settlements does roll around.

When a proposal for a five-day work week was broached in the days of Simcha Erlich, the first Likud finance minister, his answer was - first let them work one day. Evacuating the entire Gaza Strip? Seventeen settlements in Gaza? Four in the West Bank? Splendid. First let's see them evacuate one. When that happens we'll know that something has started to move around here.

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[bemildred]

1. Excellent piece.

Indeed, let us cut to the chase.