As predicted, Gaza has become the launching pad for rockets as they were launched against the town of Sderot, killing four-year-old Afik Zahavi and a 49-year-old Russian immigrant who were walking to kindergarten. Sderot has endured over 70 Kassam rocket attacks in the past three years, but until Monday June 28th, no one had died. On Tuesday, after the funeral, another six rockets hit Sderot.
While Prime Minister Sharon was visiting Sderot at 4:00pm, he said, "Kassam rockets will not return to Sderot again, when we're through with our current IDF actions." Two minutes later, three Kassam rockets were fired and fell very close to the prime minister, with his mouth open in dismay. The secret service ran him out of there like a bat out of hell. Too bad Sharon's bodyguards couldn't have protected and saved the life of Afik Zahavi.
Sharon said he will withdraw regardless and added the personal threat that those who resist his orders of evacuation should realize that "there is a price to pay!". That threat has several meanings.
One: He will confiscate all properties, not pay their owners anything and give them to the Arab Muslim incoming refugees, who were themselves kicked out by their current Arab hosts from other Arab nations.
Two: He will use the threat often employed by Yitzhak Rabin to order the secret police to create false grounds for political arrests and harass all those who dare to defy his will. (Regrettably, the once-admired secret services have been politically contaminated and used by prime ministers, both Left and Right, to enforce their own political agendas.)
Three: "He will build detention camps for settlers in case of mass resistance. The Army and Police are training special forces to carry out the evacuation".(1) These are purposely selected thugs without conscience.
As President George W. Bush attempts to bring democracy to Iraq and the Middle East, Sharon (with the encouragement of Bush and the US Arabist State Department) are erasing democracy from Israel - knowingly precipitating a civil war in Israel.
Israel has seen her prime ministers make terrible decisions while ignoring any advice from cabinet ministers, members of Knesset (parliament), and the will of the people, as expressed by their votes. Whenever necessary, they utilize the Israeli Supreme Court to give a thin covering of legality to their politics - as in the recent decisions to realign the security fence to protect the Arab Muslims and leave the Jews at greater risk.
These would-be dictators truly believe that whatever comes into their minds and leaves by way of their mouths is always an infallible decision and not to be questioned. Those who have known Sharon as close friends understand that Sharon always believes his own thoughts and ideas are infallibly correct and not ever to be questioned. Those who question or oppose are quickly pushed far away as punishment for speaking their minds.
We remind the reader that all through the Oslo debacle, since October 1993, each time there was a massive suicide bombing - continually demonstrating that there was no peace - Rabin and Shimon Peres claimed that this would not stop their "peace process", which, of course, was non-existent. Now, Sharon echoes the leftist mantra that he, too, will disengage from the hostile Arab Muslims as a lesson in "peace-making" and that whoever is opposed to losing their homes, farms, synagogues, businesses, schools - or being threatened by hostile Arab Muslims with sophisticated weapons closer to their borders within a shrunken Israel - is wrong and doesn't want peace.
From the scrambled connections in Sharon's mind, augmented by Bush and the State Department, he has issued a proclamation of abandonment of the land of Gush Katif (with the rest of Judea and Samaria soon to follow, then half of Jerusalem and probably the Golan Heights, as pushed by the US State Department). Paralleling this insanity is a push by French President Jacques Chirac and Shimon Peres to resurrect Yasser Arafat yet again.
Do the pioneering settlers who were urged to turn barren desert into productive farm land by all the past Israeli governments now have to listen to an order to leave because Sharon alone says so?
No, they do not. Nor must anyone else follow docilely while this befuddled old man plays with the lives of thousands. By thousands, I mean not only the 8,000 Jewish men, women and children of Gaza/Gush Katif, but of all the cities and towns in the south, including Beersheva and even the centers of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, who will be placed in harm's way.
The rockets and missiles that were at first crude and inaccurate are gaining sophistication in terms of accuracy, distance and explosive power. Once Gaza/Gush Katif is Judenrein (free of Jews), including IDF patrols, checkpoints and forays to keep the terrorists off balance, Islamic terrorists from all over will consolidate. They will be provided with high-quality missiles from Iran, Syria, North Korea and China - among others. Gaza will very soon become the greatest terrorist enclave in the world, with the ability to project terror across most of Israel and the region. The so-called 'foreign fighters' who came from all the Arab/Muslim countries to fight Americans in Iraq will flow into Gaza with no restrictions.
Once consolidated, the level of sophisticated attacks on Israel proper, with far better missiles, explosives and rockets, et al, most coming through Egypt, will make Sharon crawl into his 'hidey-hole' as did Saddam Hussein. Sharon's farm near Sderot will be in easy firing range of the Gaza International Muslim Terrorist Enclave.
The laws being used by Sharon are not holy writ conferring upon government the right to put the Jewish nation, or any segment of her people, at deadly risk because a dictatorial prime minister thought it was a good idea.
Think of the history of the Jewish people from Biblical times through today. We can clearly see the disasters caused by ego-driven decisions made by kings or prime ministers who 'knew' that only they were right.
[Part 1 of 2]
Footnote:
1) "Army Bracing for Worst as Settlers Threaten to Resist Withdrawal Plan" by Leslie Susser, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily Briefing, June 29, 2004.
While Prime Minister Sharon was visiting Sderot at 4:00pm, he said, "Kassam rockets will not return to Sderot again, when we're through with our current IDF actions." Two minutes later, three Kassam rockets were fired and fell very close to the prime minister, with his mouth open in dismay. The secret service ran him out of there like a bat out of hell. Too bad Sharon's bodyguards couldn't have protected and saved the life of Afik Zahavi.
Sharon said he will withdraw regardless and added the personal threat that those who resist his orders of evacuation should realize that "there is a price to pay!". That threat has several meanings.
One: He will confiscate all properties, not pay their owners anything and give them to the Arab Muslim incoming refugees, who were themselves kicked out by their current Arab hosts from other Arab nations.
Two: He will use the threat often employed by Yitzhak Rabin to order the secret police to create false grounds for political arrests and harass all those who dare to defy his will. (Regrettably, the once-admired secret services have been politically contaminated and used by prime ministers, both Left and Right, to enforce their own political agendas.)
Three: "He will build detention camps for settlers in case of mass resistance. The Army and Police are training special forces to carry out the evacuation".(1) These are purposely selected thugs without conscience.
As President George W. Bush attempts to bring democracy to Iraq and the Middle East, Sharon (with the encouragement of Bush and the US Arabist State Department) are erasing democracy from Israel - knowingly precipitating a civil war in Israel.
Israel has seen her prime ministers make terrible decisions while ignoring any advice from cabinet ministers, members of Knesset (parliament), and the will of the people, as expressed by their votes. Whenever necessary, they utilize the Israeli Supreme Court to give a thin covering of legality to their politics - as in the recent decisions to realign the security fence to protect the Arab Muslims and leave the Jews at greater risk.
These would-be dictators truly believe that whatever comes into their minds and leaves by way of their mouths is always an infallible decision and not to be questioned. Those who have known Sharon as close friends understand that Sharon always believes his own thoughts and ideas are infallibly correct and not ever to be questioned. Those who question or oppose are quickly pushed far away as punishment for speaking their minds.
We remind the reader that all through the Oslo debacle, since October 1993, each time there was a massive suicide bombing - continually demonstrating that there was no peace - Rabin and Shimon Peres claimed that this would not stop their "peace process", which, of course, was non-existent. Now, Sharon echoes the leftist mantra that he, too, will disengage from the hostile Arab Muslims as a lesson in "peace-making" and that whoever is opposed to losing their homes, farms, synagogues, businesses, schools - or being threatened by hostile Arab Muslims with sophisticated weapons closer to their borders within a shrunken Israel - is wrong and doesn't want peace.
From the scrambled connections in Sharon's mind, augmented by Bush and the State Department, he has issued a proclamation of abandonment of the land of Gush Katif (with the rest of Judea and Samaria soon to follow, then half of Jerusalem and probably the Golan Heights, as pushed by the US State Department). Paralleling this insanity is a push by French President Jacques Chirac and Shimon Peres to resurrect Yasser Arafat yet again.
Do the pioneering settlers who were urged to turn barren desert into productive farm land by all the past Israeli governments now have to listen to an order to leave because Sharon alone says so?
No, they do not. Nor must anyone else follow docilely while this befuddled old man plays with the lives of thousands. By thousands, I mean not only the 8,000 Jewish men, women and children of Gaza/Gush Katif, but of all the cities and towns in the south, including Beersheva and even the centers of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, who will be placed in harm's way.
The rockets and missiles that were at first crude and inaccurate are gaining sophistication in terms of accuracy, distance and explosive power. Once Gaza/Gush Katif is Judenrein (free of Jews), including IDF patrols, checkpoints and forays to keep the terrorists off balance, Islamic terrorists from all over will consolidate. They will be provided with high-quality missiles from Iran, Syria, North Korea and China - among others. Gaza will very soon become the greatest terrorist enclave in the world, with the ability to project terror across most of Israel and the region. The so-called 'foreign fighters' who came from all the Arab/Muslim countries to fight Americans in Iraq will flow into Gaza with no restrictions.
Once consolidated, the level of sophisticated attacks on Israel proper, with far better missiles, explosives and rockets, et al, most coming through Egypt, will make Sharon crawl into his 'hidey-hole' as did Saddam Hussein. Sharon's farm near Sderot will be in easy firing range of the Gaza International Muslim Terrorist Enclave.
The laws being used by Sharon are not holy writ conferring upon government the right to put the Jewish nation, or any segment of her people, at deadly risk because a dictatorial prime minister thought it was a good idea.
Think of the history of the Jewish people from Biblical times through today. We can clearly see the disasters caused by ego-driven decisions made by kings or prime ministers who 'knew' that only they were right.
[Part 1 of 2]
Footnote:
1) "Army Bracing for Worst as Settlers Threaten to Resist Withdrawal Plan" by Leslie Susser, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily Briefing, June 29, 2004.