Netanyahu has already defeated a sitting prime minister (Peres in 1996), and he can do it again.

This is a personal showdown between Sharon and Netanyahu and later this month we will see one-to-one combat between them.

This could be his wake. What can he do after this?

He could decide to go to the ranch, but that is difficult to believe.

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,

We are still in the middle of the competition.