Mr Netanyahu's experience provedthat under the current Israeli system of government, which came into effect in 1996, even unpopular prime ministers are invulnerable, at least for the first half of their term.
In any case, the iPod shuffle has provedthe product's vaunted "halo effect" in that, when Apple introduced its new iPod in January, everybody stopped talking about how many copies of Halo 2 Microsoft shipped during December.