Allen Roth e-mails with a dissent to our editorial today on the Israeli elections:

Your editors analysis of the elections is off the mark in several respects. As I was reading it (in Tel Aviv) my wife was reading me an analysis in the Vero Beach newspaper that got it right.
An overwhelming number of Israelis voted to place security over a two state peace process. The Right has the clearest majority since Menachim Begin became PM. Forming a coalition on the same security principles (the number one issue in this campaign) will be relatively easy. Benjamin Netanyahu will be the next PM. He will probably ask Kadima and Labor to join but needs neither.(Even Israel’s Left leaning media concedes that Netanyahu is in the drivers seat. By the way the Likud Party grew more than any other – doubling in size)
I just learned that less than 30,000 votes separate Kadima from Likud and that there are 200,000 military ballots being counted and they always break Right. But no matter what the final vote total the next government will be Right wing and its number one objective will be to stop Iran from attaining nuclear weapons.