So everyone is getting into the blame game about how they let the elections slip through their fingers.  This should be a lesson to the US for their elections.   You don’t fight your friends, but just your opponents.  If you want to win, you have to work together.  I know that’s what Lapid tried to do, to get people to join forces – but it didn’t work at all.  Abbas was also aware that the parties had to work together to succeed.   As Monty Python’s Brian said to his people, we’re all individuals.