Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's attack on the staging area for Arab Muslim Palestinian terrorists is welcome - although it is too late and too twisty. Only when Sharon needed a big gesture did he make such moves as to make the disillusioned Right think, "Hurrah! The old warrior has returned!"
The problem is that his attack on the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and the weapons' smuggling tunnels from Egypt into Rafah precedes his planned withdrawal/retreat from the 21 Jewish communities in Gaza.
Closing up the present tunnels dug by the Arab Muslims with the approval of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, will soon become meaningless - except as a gesture to President George Bush, in order to assist his November election campaign. When Sharon withdraws the IDF troops and the 8,000 Jews, the Arab Muslims will no longer need tunnels. They can then transport all the equipment they want from Sinai into Gaza over land. While the assault on the terrorists who have made Gaza an operational base is long overdue, it makes that assault merely political theatrics.
Bush wants and needs a "win" in Gaza for his very close election campaign. Sharon has become a doll for Bush. As a mere toy, anything Sharon does has a second side. In this case, Sharon is risking Israeli soldiers not to close the door on incoming terrorists, but rather to open the gates wider after Sharon's pull-out.
Granted, he will kill some terrorists, simply because there are so many. But, after he stages his "Big Show", he will empty the area of Jews (ethnic cleansing), leaving the "Jihadists" to pour in and fill the vacuum. They will fill up Gaza as they are presently doing in Iraq and as they previously did in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets.
They will follow Yasser Arafat's modus operandi. Arafat created a terror state and tried to take over Jordan before King Hussein fought against him and evicted him and his men during the Black September operation of 1970. From there, Arafat went to Lebanon, where his presence caused a 12-year civil war, during which 100,000 Muslim and Christian Lebanese were killed - brutally. After the Israelis defeated his terror forces in Lebanon in 1982, he moved on to Tunisia - until he was resurrected by Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in the Oslo Accords, bringing him and his now better-trained terrorists back into Israel.
We will hear all those threats that if the terrorists dare to cross over Sharon's line-in-the-sand, he will know what to do. We have been listening to these vague, boastful pledges each time one of our Israeli prime ministers gives Jewish territory to the Arab Muslim Palestinians. They invariably fail in real time. Only when the situation becomes intolerable in terms of Israelis killed, for a politician trying to keep his behind glued to the prime minister's chair, do we see any real action. By then, we have another grieving family, or several.
Even then, military action is short-lived, inconclusive and lots of empty buildings are bombed at great expense. Invariably, civilians are killed, likely due to Arab Muslim Palestinians firing from within the crowds of civilians, including children, used as their "human shields".
We can expect a lot of bombast and speeches about how this great general came to life, urged on by Bush and Powell. But Sharon's retreat/withdrawal will be even more spectacular, as the propaganda machines in Israel and the White House crank up to claim a brilliant victory. Politicians invariably try to cast retreat and failure as heroic success.
In the meantime, "Jihadists" who will come from all over Muslim-land will be packing their bags, guns and explosives to be prepared to 'vacation' in the beautiful homes and farms built by the pioneering settlers of Gush Katif in Gaza. At the insistence of Bush and the Arabist US State Department, everything is to be left in place. Homes, gardens, farms, factories, water and sewage pipes, electricity and phone lines - so the terrorists may set up camp quickly and in comfort.
Bush and Sharon have agreed that Israel will continue to supply clean water, electricity, phone service and anything else the terrorists may need.
Some may wonder why the settlers don't march to Jerusalem again and, this time, wrap Sharon in Saran Wrap to ship him over to Bush.
Bush is desperately trying to hoodwink his Christian Zionist supporters into believing that it is not he and the State Department who are thwarting G-d's promise of the Land to the Jews. Regretfully, Jewish activists who know better, and the Christian Zionists who believe sometimes even more than the Jews, know that Bush is bringing G-d's condemnation on all Americans because of his selfish and foolish policy of appeasing his father's Arab oil friends.
I fear we will all pay a terrible price for the Bush-Sharon self-serving betrayal of G-d's final word. But, then again, neither are believers in G-d except in the breach, and then only to trick the body politic.
In summation, I am sorry to say that the canny old warrior has not returned as he once was. Sharon has returned as a witless Golem, a creature who belongs to Bush and the Arabist US State Department. Like a dumb doll made of mud, he now walks the earth when called upon by his masters.
Surely, this is Sharon's "last hurrah" as he pulls the Jewish nation of Israel down into the abyss into which he is sinking. Bush also pulls the American nation down, too weak to resist the black powers allied so closely with the Muslim "Jihadists".
The problem is that his attack on the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and the weapons' smuggling tunnels from Egypt into Rafah precedes his planned withdrawal/retreat from the 21 Jewish communities in Gaza.
Closing up the present tunnels dug by the Arab Muslims with the approval of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, will soon become meaningless - except as a gesture to President George Bush, in order to assist his November election campaign. When Sharon withdraws the IDF troops and the 8,000 Jews, the Arab Muslims will no longer need tunnels. They can then transport all the equipment they want from Sinai into Gaza over land. While the assault on the terrorists who have made Gaza an operational base is long overdue, it makes that assault merely political theatrics.
Bush wants and needs a "win" in Gaza for his very close election campaign. Sharon has become a doll for Bush. As a mere toy, anything Sharon does has a second side. In this case, Sharon is risking Israeli soldiers not to close the door on incoming terrorists, but rather to open the gates wider after Sharon's pull-out.
Granted, he will kill some terrorists, simply because there are so many. But, after he stages his "Big Show", he will empty the area of Jews (ethnic cleansing), leaving the "Jihadists" to pour in and fill the vacuum. They will fill up Gaza as they are presently doing in Iraq and as they previously did in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets.
They will follow Yasser Arafat's modus operandi. Arafat created a terror state and tried to take over Jordan before King Hussein fought against him and evicted him and his men during the Black September operation of 1970. From there, Arafat went to Lebanon, where his presence caused a 12-year civil war, during which 100,000 Muslim and Christian Lebanese were killed - brutally. After the Israelis defeated his terror forces in Lebanon in 1982, he moved on to Tunisia - until he was resurrected by Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in the Oslo Accords, bringing him and his now better-trained terrorists back into Israel.
We will hear all those threats that if the terrorists dare to cross over Sharon's line-in-the-sand, he will know what to do. We have been listening to these vague, boastful pledges each time one of our Israeli prime ministers gives Jewish territory to the Arab Muslim Palestinians. They invariably fail in real time. Only when the situation becomes intolerable in terms of Israelis killed, for a politician trying to keep his behind glued to the prime minister's chair, do we see any real action. By then, we have another grieving family, or several.
Even then, military action is short-lived, inconclusive and lots of empty buildings are bombed at great expense. Invariably, civilians are killed, likely due to Arab Muslim Palestinians firing from within the crowds of civilians, including children, used as their "human shields".
We can expect a lot of bombast and speeches about how this great general came to life, urged on by Bush and Powell. But Sharon's retreat/withdrawal will be even more spectacular, as the propaganda machines in Israel and the White House crank up to claim a brilliant victory. Politicians invariably try to cast retreat and failure as heroic success.
In the meantime, "Jihadists" who will come from all over Muslim-land will be packing their bags, guns and explosives to be prepared to 'vacation' in the beautiful homes and farms built by the pioneering settlers of Gush Katif in Gaza. At the insistence of Bush and the Arabist US State Department, everything is to be left in place. Homes, gardens, farms, factories, water and sewage pipes, electricity and phone lines - so the terrorists may set up camp quickly and in comfort.
Bush and Sharon have agreed that Israel will continue to supply clean water, electricity, phone service and anything else the terrorists may need.
Some may wonder why the settlers don't march to Jerusalem again and, this time, wrap Sharon in Saran Wrap to ship him over to Bush.
Bush is desperately trying to hoodwink his Christian Zionist supporters into believing that it is not he and the State Department who are thwarting G-d's promise of the Land to the Jews. Regretfully, Jewish activists who know better, and the Christian Zionists who believe sometimes even more than the Jews, know that Bush is bringing G-d's condemnation on all Americans because of his selfish and foolish policy of appeasing his father's Arab oil friends.
I fear we will all pay a terrible price for the Bush-Sharon self-serving betrayal of G-d's final word. But, then again, neither are believers in G-d except in the breach, and then only to trick the body politic.
In summation, I am sorry to say that the canny old warrior has not returned as he once was. Sharon has returned as a witless Golem, a creature who belongs to Bush and the Arabist US State Department. Like a dumb doll made of mud, he now walks the earth when called upon by his masters.
Surely, this is Sharon's "last hurrah" as he pulls the Jewish nation of Israel down into the abyss into which he is sinking. Bush also pulls the American nation down, too weak to resist the black powers allied so closely with the Muslim "Jihadists".