Israeli Labor Party

Although Israelis are not scheduled to go to the polls until fall of 2013, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is widely expected to call for early elections. Yet, Netanyahu may be more vulnerable than anticipated.

Ehud Barak is now a national tragedy. A leader who once held such promise has now driven the founding party of the state of Israel into the ground and cast his lot with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Third parties diverted key fragments of the Israeli mainstream from the two largest parties, leading to coalition governments guaranteed to collapse before they could address Israel's most pressing concerns.