Shifts in Israeli Society

Zusammenfassung

The recent elections in February 2001 were in fact not about electing a new Prime Minister — but about throwing out a governing Prime Minister. Ehud Barak was sacked with a majority of two thirds — as if the public wanted to tell him: »Go home, you have failed!«. Ariel Sharon was easily elected, and he seems to have known this in advance. In his election campaign, he had not bothered even to state his political plans — and invited his rival, Ehud Barak, to join his future government. Furthermore, his priority after the elections was indeed to ensure the entry of the Labor party, and only after having done that, his own party got its share of what was left.