“Netanyahu, … was widely considered one of the worst prime ministers in Israel’s history … Unfortunately his replacement, … Barak, managed to trump Bibi in the disastrous leadership department.”
Maybe my memory fails me, but I recall that Bibi was defeated because popular opinion wanted to leave Southern Lebanon and embrace Oslo. Barak pulled out of Southern Lebanon and tried to surrender to Araft & Co. He failed because, not because of his was inadequacies, but because Bibi was right about the PLO gang.
The real failure of leadership came in 2006 with the disastrous Hezbollah fiasco, which revealed the Army to be poorly prepared, the Defense ministry to have planned poorly, and Olmert and his cabinet to be ninnies.
At this point I think that Bibi is the choice. He is the one who most clearly understood the PLO.
