WI Sharon "lived"?

WI he hadn't had the massive stroke in '06 that reduced him to a vegetative state? How would the ME look right now? Would he have retired and turned the PMO over to Olmert or someone else? Effects on the Mideast negotiations?
 
What I'm interested to know is how a live and lucid PM Sharon would react to the Hamas capture of Gilad Shalit and then the subsequent Hezbollah attack and capture of Regev and Goldwasser. Would his reaction make Olmert's look tame by comparison? One thing that hampered Olmert throughout his term was the image of him as a corrupt pussy. Sharon was (is?) many things, but one thing you couldn't call him was a pussy.
 
I'd be interested in doing a mini-TL on this, and I suspect he'd have held the PMO by a large majority in '06. Also introduce a three-party system in Israel, with Bibi holding the ultraconservative Likudniks as a rump caucus.
 
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