Posted on 12/13/2005 11:22:29 AM PST by Jacob Kell
close don't count. Sharon is a warrior par excellance. To screw with him is to die.
I thought the only threat to Sharon was from those eeville right-wing settlers.
Now for the except... the world won't let Israel win.
Now to some, it's damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Why should Israel care what anyone thinks. Just git r done.
Israel has to care because she is not self-sustaining.
Israel has to care because she has seen herself isolated and diplomatically cast into the wilderness because of her treatment of the Palestinians.
Israel has to care because she had been down this road before, and it ends in disaster for her people.
These Israeli threads are filled wiht such comments like "What was Sharon thinking." He is thinking that peace has to come... that the Palestinians are the ones to make peace with...
But, people who consistently post on these threads think he is an idiot because he doesn't understand the Palestinian end game. He understands more than we ever could. He has been dealing with the Arabs a whole lot longer than most of us have been alive. He isn't fooled... he isn't being tricked.
Israel is caught between the world and the Palestinians, just like the Jews were caught between the world and the Nazis. They understand that Israel mostly stands alone. Alone in this fight for survival. Just as the world was not ready to battle the Nazis over 6,000,000 Jews, they are not about to battle Arabs over 6,000,000 Jews.
Sharon is walking a tightrope between diplomacy and security. He can't do what you want because he can't. Israel won't survive the aftermath of total war against the Palestinians. They will win...but then the aftermath... and they won't survive.
So, whereas I agree with your post, it isn't feasible. So Sharon's plan now is to pull out of areas he can't protect... build the wall around the 90% of the settlements that are on the high grounds necessary for the defense of the state and hopefully diplomatically survive.
See the world's reaction to that move. What do you think would happen if he should actually declare war on the world's little pets. Disaster!
Please see my post 23
You are absolutely correct... They are not allowed.
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