There is no other option.
The Roadmap is predicated on one central realization: that Palestinians of courage and honor are the only hope to locate and eradicate the terrorist animals among them. There are 1500 Hamas thugs reigning terror not only on Israeli citizens, but within the PA itself. The IDF can't locate this vile gang among tens of thousands of non-violent Palestinian residents and remove them. They can't, just as we Americans could never have located 42 of the 55 Iraqi Cardmembers without support from the locals. The locals need to step up and help themselves.
That's all this plan entails. It's a challenge for Palestinians to initiate a civil war to rid themselves of thugs who menace Palestinians. Palestinians tired of squalor, death and stateless despair have to act for themselves. A nation of their own is within reach. The PA has 60,000 policemen, they can find and kill the cancer within their midst given the right men courageously leading their people to a righteous future.
That's the only option. There is no Palestinian state with a functioning Hamas. Hamas, and all other vipers of terror, must be destroyed by Palestinians.
This stuff that George W. Bush is working the legendary lion Ariel Sharon like a puppet on a string is absurd. This is an Israeli offer, an Israeli investment, and an Israeli destiny.
American resolve and success in Afghanistan and Iraq has set the table for Palestinians of courage and history to step up against the brutish 10% who terrorize those within and without the Islamic world.
The inconquerable Hussein, the indomitable Iraq ... are vanquished. The cult deity Bin Laden has disappeared. The Mullahs of Iran are soon gone. The sponsors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad are being eradicated. Arafat has been disempowered. Hamas leaders have shown cowardice in the face of battle.
The Arab world is in disarray, and if this bold gamble for peace is successful, Ariel Sharon WILL be the greatest Israeli patriot ever. The time has never been better.