Text size this story is by  It wasn't the earthquake that Ariel
Sharon had planned and wished for; nor was it the "upheaval" of
1977 that shook the hearts of the people. But based on the
results of the exit polls, yesterday's election has led to a
dramatic political turnaround.  Instead of a right-wing
government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud rebels,
who undermined any attempt to move toward a peace agreement,
Israel will be getting a government that will have the means to
implement the plan devised by Ehud Olmert when he becomes prime
minister.  Relative to the surveys that gave Kadima between 35
and 42 seats, the figure 32 looks rather disappointing. But one
must recall that Kadima did not start out with 42, but with
zero. On the way to what it achieved last night, the party
trampled the Likud and left people like Uzi Landau and Yisrael
Katz on the outside. And more than anything else, it made
Netanyahu, the father of all sins, irrelevant.  The voter made
it clear that from his point of view, N