Posted on 03/28/2006 9:30:22 AM PST by Sabramerican
Disengagement delusion
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. March 28, 2006
Today, even more than is usually the case, Israel is the Free World's "canary in the mine shaft." Its voters are poised to vote for a policy approach their American counterparts are being tempted to embrace in the months ahead. Call it the "disengagement delusion." .....
If Israel's voters do, in fact, give a mandate to Ehud Olmert, the man who now leads the Kadima Party created by Mr. Sharon in the months before his illness, they will actually be indulging in not one delusion, but two.
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Isn't there a proverb translating as "the people [as a collective singular] is no fool"? If so, then the electorate by definition knows what it is doing, since it has the most at stake and will have to live with the consequences. Vox populi - vox Dei.
Frequently people under emotional duress are not held to their decisions. Israel is having a mental breakdown.
And it's understandable under the circumstances.
One needs to be pretty arrogant to say that a whole country is having a mental breakdown. It is much more likely that the person saying it is out of phase oneself.
The whole country is not having a mental breakdown. The ones that have held strongest have had the State come against them and are demoralized.
It is a tiny percent of swing voters who will determine the outcome. They have become delusional.
The intelligentsia, Leftist media, and the Leftist courts, all that mold opinion, went crazy a long time ago- as many have in the US too.
The Israeli media is withholding the results of exit polls. It does not look good for Kadima.
Could Israel be looking at a Palm Beach hanging chad scenario?
One more thing.
They are literally voting on issues of life and death, on uprooting their fellow citizens from their homes, on dividing Jerusalem, et al.
And yet turnout is extremely low.
That speaks for itself as to their mental state.
Let them figure it out. This is just what they are doing at the polls right now.
That is the fascinating point. In such pivotal times the only excitement was provided by a party representing retirees and a party in favor of legalizing marijuana. This is the result you would expect in the USA in 1992 (which was what we got) not in a country under siege facing crucial decisions.
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