Arutz-7's attempts today to reach Likud leaders to talk about Sharon's positions on a PA state and his veiled threats met with failure (other than in the case of MK Yuval Shteinitz; see below). Political affairs correspondent Menachem Rahat confirmed that this was a general trend with other news outlets as well. "There is a general discomfort in the Likud, to put it mildly," Rahat said, "with Sharon's support for a PA state and with his demand for unanimity on this topic. I counted among the top candidates on the Likud's list only four people who are willing to talk favorably of a Palestinian state, and they are Sharon himself, his son Omri, Meir Shitreet, and Tzippy Livni. So the question is if he'll appoint only them to his government, and then start scraping the bottom of the barrel with people like Dan Meridor and Roni Milo - in which case he cannot be sure that the Likud MKs will support the government he presents to the Knesset. And all this is under the no-longer certain assumption that he will in fact form the next government…"