Sharansky: ‘Big Concern’ About Obama; Warns Iran of ‘Inevitable’ Attack

Newsmax ^ | July 23, 2008 | Christopher Ruddy

[2ndDivisionVet]

Editor’s Note: Newsmax Editor Christopher Ruddy is visiting Israel this week and met with Natan Sharansky. The former Soviet dissident spent more than a decade in the communist Gulag. He emigrated to Israel after his release in 1986, became a Knesset member and served in four successive Israeli governments, including time as deputy prime minister. In 2006, he resigned from Israel’s Knesset, but he remains active in the country’s political discourse. He has just authored his latest book “Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy.”

Jerusalem — An Israeli businessman I met described Natan Sharansky as having an “inner strength.” Indeed he has. We might say in America he is a man of a quiet charisma.

It’s Wednesday, the day after a crazed man went on a rampage using a bulldozer in a suicidal attempt to kill and maim innocent Israelis. In the end, 16 civilians were injured before the terrorist was shot dead.

All of this took place not far from Sharansky’s Jerusalem office at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, where he serves as its chairman. Sharansky appears calm and safe, even unshakable. But he sees real threats to the state of Israel.

“There must be a serious punishment,” Sharansky says of the suicidal terrorists. First, the Israeli government should demolish the homes of suicidal terrorists, a tactic he describes as a “deterrence” that is “one of the most effective ways of social pressure” to thwart future acts.

Sharansky quickly qualifies this remedy as a “micro-therapy.”

The attacks of radical Islamics do not come in a vacuum, Sharansky posits.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He sounds like a very wise man.

[MattinNJ]

His book should be required reading. When he relates when they heard in the gulag about Reagan telling Gorbachev to tear down the wall-tears flowed down my cheeks.

God Bless you Mr. Reagan. Rest easy.

[tflabo]

Sharansky thinks Obama has “a little record or almost no record, while the one who he is competing with is McCain, and we know for sure his principles.” Sharansky continues the train of thought: “It is very alarming for me the way Senator Obama voted, the way he spoke about his desire to negotiate with Ahmadinejad, and the way some of his advisers think. “I was at AIPAC. He made a very strong speech, speaking about a Jewish state, defensible borders, a united Jerusalem, then the next day he started correcting himself.”

"a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways".

[AmericaUnited]

Some glib talking empty headed pencil neck is not going to fool Sharansky.

[2ndDivisionVet]

PING!

[Chode]

“There must be a serious punishment,” Sharansky says of the suicidal terrorists. First, the Israeli government should demolish the homes of suicidal terrorists, a tactic he describes as a “deterrence” that is “one of the most effective ways of social pressure” to thwart future acts.

i'm all for that, but when did they stop??? iirc that wasn't that how the infamous pancake girl got her 15mins.

or did that put an end to it?

[PapaBear3625]

First, the Israeli government should demolish the homes of suicidal terrorists, a tactic he describes as a “deterrence” that is “one of the most effective ways of social pressure” to thwart future acts.

Demolish the house AND confiscate the land underneath it. The best deterrent is for every attack to result in a diminishing of Muslim land.

[Mr170IQ]

Sharansky betrayed Bibi to Clinton at the Wye talks directly resulting in the fall of the Likud government.

He should be begging the entire Israeli people for forgiveness for that mistake.