http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/71832200-6176-11e2-957e-00144feab49a.html#axzz2IYOPLPkG

In the campaign leading up to Tuesday¹s election, the forceful leader has presented himself as a bulwark of Zionist values and the sole guarantor of security in a region dangerously roiled by the Arab spring.

The expected victory will confound and frustrate his many critics in Israel and abroad.