Sharon wins Major Vote, Bigger Buffet Table

From Reuters:

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) won a crucial Likud party vote on Thursday that will let him bring opposition Labour into his shattered coalition and power forward a plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites).

Averting a likely snap election, the rightist Likud's Central Committee reversed an earlier decision by voting 62 to 38 percent to allow talks on a unity government.

It was a blow for hardline party rebels, who oppose giving up the Gaza Strip or any land captured in the 1967 war, and tried to prevent an alliance with pro-withdrawal Labour as a way to stop it.

How can you tell how fucked up it is in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

When the man who oversaw Sabra & Shitilla is opposed from within his party by "hardlinders"!