Of course Sharon has always had a plan. He's waiting for the U.S. to attack Iraq. Saddam in turn will fire missiles at Israel. The Palestinians will go wild with ecstasy and launch massive sympathy attacks all over Gaza and the West Bank. Sharon will say, "I have no choice," and send in the IDF, ostensibly to quell the violence but in fact to drive the Palestinians out of the west bank and Gaza while the rest of the world is focused on the U.S. War with Iraq. When the dust settles, Gaza and the West Bank will be entirely free of Palestinians. Israel will be Arabrein. But the important thing is to get the U.S. to attack Iraq. Hence the year long drumbeat for war from Safire, Krauthammer, Podhoretz and Kristol.
This will, of course, make Israel the bad guy. How gauche of them to stand in the way of Iraqi missles.
Safire, Krauthammer, Podhoretz and Kristol
Interesting list of pundits there. Any reason you picked them and not Buckley, Will or Noonan? Any reason at all?
No it won't. There are lot of Israeli citizens who are Arabs, Christian as well as Muslim, some are even members of the Israeli legislature. They would remain. For you see it's not Arabs, or even Muslims that the Israelies have problems with, it's the one's who send their young to blow themselves up in hope of killing a Jew or three that they have problems with. Israel has alwasy had Arab citizens, with full citizen's rights, (although the Muslims are exempt from the draft, they may join the IDF voluntarily and some do, as well as Druze and Christians) Can the same be said of Jews in Arab/Muslim countires, other than Turkey.
Ahhh, yezz... behind it all, ve see ze JEWS, eh? (/sarcasm, with fake Nazi accent)