[M 91 u2 K]

Are you tring to say Sharon is pretending to be a leftist so he can secretly do right wing things and no one will notice???

[Iris7]

I do not find "Rightist" or "Leftist" much use in describing Israeli politics. However, good troops are getting harder and harder to draft every year, huge fund transfers into Israel are a necessity for survival, and the PA can only be neutralized (for international political reasons) by controlling it's income. These are realities.

Another reality is that the struggle with the PA, and later with the PA's successors, will go on as long as Israel exists. There will never be peace. Final victory cannot happen. Survival requires conserving assets, human and diplomatic.