Not another Phoenix, PLEASE!

"Sharon's Rival Positions Himself as Heir Apparent" kinda says it all.

That well known Dove "Bibi" Netanyahu wants yet another bite at the cherry.

Not sure which my favourite part of this NYTimes article is maybe "With talk of that rivalry unseemly now ...Mr. Netanyahu, who is hoping to win election as prime minister in March as leader of the right-wing Likud party, focuses not on their disagreements but on their shared past."

Yeah, he makes comments about how good he was as Finance minister. Just ask any Australian prime minister about "keep your friends close, but your enemies as Treasurer"... well, in Australia, that was usually "rival" rather than "enemy".

I don't seem to remember Netanyahy ever being voted "Treasurer of the Year". Sure he took the country through some economic restructuring, but that in itself is not enough to get the premiership.

If he wanted to be really honest, he could just talk about how he wants to roll back all vestiges of "Peace in our time".

Always careful to say that Sharon was no angel... far from it, but at least he came to his senses that for any lasting peace, pragmatism was required. And the timing of was never going to be better than the window of opportunity following Arafat's death.

Enough of that for now.