Economic exhaustion and political passivity

In today's JPost, Daniel Doron takes a shot at explaining why Israelis are planning on voting for Ariel Sharon's Ehud Olmert's Kadima Achora party:Economic exhaustion and political passivity ... But even the conviction that Sharon, with all his faults, was the best leader because he was determined "to do what is necessary" does not explain fully the curious reaction of the Israeli people