But even if , as others predict , mr olmert and his allies failed to dislodge mr netanyahu 's likud party from power , they would change the face of the election campaign .
Of particular concern for mr netanyahu are the towns bordering gaza , which are traditionally a stronghold of his likud party .
内塔尼亚胡特别关心的是与加沙相邻的城镇,那里可是利库德集团的传统票仓。
Mr netanyahu is loth to lose any of his coalition partners and reluctant to open a rift within his own likud .
内塔尼亚胡不愿失去联合政府中的任何一方,同时也不愿跟自己的利库德集团产生分歧。
For mr netanyahu it will mean dumping some of his coalition partners and perhaps , too , some of his own likud loyalists .
对于内塔尼亚胡,这意味着削弱他的联盟伙伴,甚至会失去他自己利库德集团的拥护者。
Mr netanyahu 's rightist-religious coalition of parties remains strong in the polls , even though his own likud party still represents less than a quarter of the electorate and his personal approval ratings are less than spectacular .
Mr. netanyahu has come to power twice as prime minister on his likud party 's policy that israel should control all of the west bank and other territories won during wars with arab states .
After a lull in electioneering while the fighting lasted , binyamin netanyahu , who leads the opposition likud , now loudly accuses the government of squandering the chance offered by the army by stopping the war too soon .
Since mr liebermann 's party agreed last month to fight the election in an alliance with mr netanyahu 's likud party , his voice may carry more weight than before .
Nine years ago a visit to the temple mount by ariel sharon , then leader of the likud party , triggered events that led to the second palestinian uprising , popularly called the al-aqsa intifada .
9年前,当时的利库德集团领导人沙龙访问圣殿山,引发了第二次巴勒斯坦起义活动,俗称阿克萨起义。
Binyamin netanyahu 's likud is , according to opinion polls , the front-runner , but it is likely to win fewer than 30 of the knesset 's 120 seats .