Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and he was leading this effort to create sort of a pragmatic conservative centrist platform that could pursue the kind of things that the traditional left could not. You know, you needed a conservative to sort of say, hey, you know, if I'm doing this, I'm not being soft on the Palestinians. I'm not being soft on Hamas. I know what I'm doing. That entire thing eviscerated with the stroke. And you know, today Khadimah does not exist as a political party. It was very short-lived. That led to the revival of Likud. But Likud and Prime Minister Netanyahu took charge of basically came back and became the leader of Likud and he's dominated that position since then. But what has happened is the weakening of the left and the argument about a two-state solution, the strengthening of Likud and hardening of Likud, it's moved further to the right. It's literally aligning with political parties that are really far right. They are sort of in many ways, you can say that (20/99)
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