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the pollster who had advised not only Blair’s campaign

Philip added a final bit of advice. “If you want to

neutralized or used to adjust Labor’s own campaign. I was

had ended eighteen years of Conservative rule and swept

and I doubted his coalition with the more

assess your own and your rivals’ strengths and vulnerabilities

prepare and execute it. An ability to get the lie of the

I differed from many on the left. Though I

or the increasingly influential Sephardi

democratic Israel under the rule of law. I

I felt strongly that we needed to separate

there had been times during my first year-and-a-half as

to dissolve the Knesset and pave the way for early elections. The

he told me he had enough votes for a no-confidence motion

Haim knew all of it instinctively. When it came to the need for discreet

Bibi again stalled. That was the turning point. I’d made it

Bibi won the cabinet’s clearance for actual implementation to

but with five abstentions. That meant less than half of his ministers had

Bibi did finally try to seize the initiative. He

seemed to be thinking of leaving as well. Right wing ministers and