Likud Party Picks Netanyahu in Primary

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/israel_politics


TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's battered Likud Party chose Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to run against Ariel Sharon in March elections, and the former Israeli prime minister pledged to bring the party back to power.

Exit polls from all three Israeli TV stations showed Netanyahu with 47 percent of the vote, while his closest rival, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, got 32 percent.

Party leaders did not wait for the official count to declare Netanyahu the winner, and Netanyahu promised that his nomination to run against Sharon as a candidate for prime minister would be the beginning of "returning the Likud to power."

He said, "First of all we must bring the Likud back to itself and then to the leadership of the country. It begins now, up, up and up."

eom

With a road map to hell.

They have plenty.
Time to end US aid to this regime.

i saw some Haaretz article from a few years back about the left in Israel comparing Netanyahu a nazi after his campaign used a slogan that went like: "A Strong Leader for a Strong Nation."

here's 2 articlea that mention the slogan:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9905/israel.elexguide/candidates/content/netanyahu/
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/05/07/israel/print.html