Well, anyone else with some real educated opinions too, I guess.
Here is how I understand it:
Bibi is forming the government but all of his potential partners are driving some damn hard bargains.
The ultra-religious want housing and won’t cave much in giving into Lieberman’s demands for secular reforms. And they’d bolt if Bibi actually tries to maneuver at all from the hard line in talks with the Palestinians (which he likely expects he will eventually do under cover of US pressure). Lieberman demands the foreign ministry and wanted his man at Justice. He’ll accept Neeman instead of Friedmann but he’ll wants more elsewhere in return for that. Which doesn’t make some of Bibi’s own Likud all that happy.
Holding together his “natural partners” is seeming a more and more unnatural act every day.
So now he back to trying to get Kadima in the fold instead? Hoo ha.
How is this going to all shake out? And when? Where is the smart money riding?