Henry Imler January 4th, 2006

Check for updtaes: Mere Rhetoric: Disaster:

UPDATE 3:
YNet: : “Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s condition is very serious…
severe stroke. Walla (Hebrew): Sharon suffered damage to several bodily
functions and its reasonable to expect he will not be returning to
normal functionoing any time soon.

UPDATE 4:
Worse and worse. Walla (Hebrew): “Sharon suffered massive bleeding in
his brain and everyone can understand what that means”. This is
devestating

.UPDATE 5: Sharon’s people are now speaking of needing a miracle.

UPDATE 6:
Things “don’t look good”. Sharon’s condition is life-threatening.
Security has been boosted around Ehud Olmert’s residence in
anticipation of him assuming the office of the Prime Minister.

Right now things are not looking good for the man. I wish him well, but it looks like his time has come.
Anytime there is a political shakeup in the Middle East, I get edgy.

UPDATE
12: We finally got the Channel 10 feed working off of Walla. They’re
talking about the political consequences of Sharon’s condition. Kadima
is already making contingency plans. There was a question on this just
emailed to us, so quick synopsis: elections are set for late March in
Israel after Sharon’s request to dissolve the Israeli government was
granted by President Katsav last December.

The expectation had
been that Sharon would personally lead his new party - Kadima - to an
(at least recently) unprecedented level of control. However, that
relied on his personal popularity with the Israeli public. In the
short-term, Deputy Prime Minister Olmert will take over the government.
In the long-term, even the talking heads on Israeli TV are baffled
right now.

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