Once upon a time, Arik Sharon was a most loved figure. When he was a General, he did what he did best, fighting with a deserved brutality against the Arab enemy, who had openly and often pledged to eliminate the Jewish State and people. Then, he was loved and admired by those who appreciated his courage, daring and intelligence about the Arab Muslim enemy. For those who disagreed with his forthright understanding of the nature of the Arab Muslim hostility, he was feared and respected.
When Sharon was in his own element, the gun powder of defending his people in war, he was a hero and loved by his people. But then Arik Sharon left the military and entered a new element. He became a politician, but he brought with him the talents and tactics of war.
Regrettably, he turned those talents for destruction against his own people. Now, the admiration, even love, began to shift toward suspicion and, for some, even toward hatred.
Throughout our lives, we earn people's respect and trust or hatred by what we do.
Sharon, in his military years, rightfully earned the respect, honor and even love for his role in defending the nation. But when he became a typical politician, his past became blurred and finally forgotten after he initiated the dismantling of the nation under a slogan of 'disengagement' from the Arab Muslim Palestinians.
Had he publicly maintained his politically-Left face from his early days in the leftist party called Mapai, which later became the Labor party, the people would not have been shocked or surprised. Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres made no pretense of hiding their leftist ideology, so when they secretly negotiated the Oslo Accords behind the backs of the nation and in concert with foreign interests, we were not surprised. Lies and contempt for the public was part and parcel of the Labor-Left's way of governing.
Sharon was elected February 6th by a 60% landslide over then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak who had offered Yasser Arafat 97% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, plus half of Jerusalem. Sharon won because the people believed that Sharon, the warrior, and Sharon, the builder of and advocate for the pioneering settlements, would do the job. He would decisively put down Arab Muslim terrorism, stop the hemorrhage of concessions to enemies by prior governments, and secure the people of Israel and the Land of Israel in a non-apologetic, sovereign Jewish State.
Instead, Sharon has become a reincarnation of Barak, Rabin and Peres rolled into one great package. Sadly, Sharon, the politician, emerged from the closet as a leftist, dedicated to re-partitioning the Land of Israel. The years of speeches, promises and recommendations to take the land and build upon it vanished as if he had never spoken. He had adopted the leftists' ideology of lies, no less than Rabin, Peres, Barak, Yossi Beilin, et al.
His secret weapon of de-Judaizing Israel began to catch fire. As the leftists before him had engaged in agreements with foreign powers to lie, intimidate and manipulate the public to please other nations, who in turn had deep vested interests in Arab oil nations, so too Sharon joined them in collaboration. Every move to sway the public, threaten them with everything from escalating Arab Muslim terrorism, to jailing objectors with administrative detention, to cutting off utilities and army protection, is being used. Jews are being threatened with forcible transfer out of their homes, schools, synagogues, farms, factories, businesses and even their graves. Sharon is starting with the 8,200 Jewish men, women and children in Gush Katif (Harvest Block), and an unknown number in the so-called outposts in Judea and Samaria.
Thus, the man who was loved for his defense of the Jewish nation is now looked upon by many as a traitor, engaged in treason to please other nations. Even to say so is risky.
Like King Herod, who called in the Romans to suppress the Jewish people so he could keep his throne, we sadly see a befuddled Sharon, trying to please President George W. Bush, who, in turn, is demanding that Israel be re-partitioned to accommodate another Arab Muslim State of Palestine in Israel's heartland. Even as the Arab Islamists display their perfidious terror across the globe, Sharon and Bush conspire to implant an operational base in Gaza, as a forerunner of a fully fledged state of terrorism in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
It is an ugly daisy chain of deceit and betrayal.
Sharon has now parted ways with the Jewish people and, like Herod, he belongs - body, soul and pockets - to foreign interests. Sharon has earned the distrust and even hatred of those he has betrayed in word and deed.
Is it any wonder that many Israelis and Jews world-wide have gone from love to hate in such a brief time? Rabin, Peres, Barak and Beilin can claim their own graveyards for the Jews who fell to the Oslo Accords, and so, too, is Sharon building his own cemetery for the Jews who will inevitably fall as a result of the dismantling and re-partition of the nation. Since the Oslo Accords were signed, September 13, 1993, on the White House lawn with President Clinton, more than 1,500 Jewish men, women and children have been cruelly murdered by Arab Muslim terrorists, with tens of thousands wounded, many maimed for life.
There will always be those Jews who will close their eyes to the future and only conveniently use Sharon's past - that of a hero - to achieve re-partition. Observe the example of King Saul who defied G-d's instructions by not killing all the pagan enemy Amalekites then in the Land of Israel. Saul was stripped of his kingship by the Prophet Samuel and, finally, he fell on his own sword for his betrayal of his people.
How the mighty have fallen!
When Sharon was in his own element, the gun powder of defending his people in war, he was a hero and loved by his people. But then Arik Sharon left the military and entered a new element. He became a politician, but he brought with him the talents and tactics of war.
Regrettably, he turned those talents for destruction against his own people. Now, the admiration, even love, began to shift toward suspicion and, for some, even toward hatred.
Throughout our lives, we earn people's respect and trust or hatred by what we do.
Sharon, in his military years, rightfully earned the respect, honor and even love for his role in defending the nation. But when he became a typical politician, his past became blurred and finally forgotten after he initiated the dismantling of the nation under a slogan of 'disengagement' from the Arab Muslim Palestinians.
Had he publicly maintained his politically-Left face from his early days in the leftist party called Mapai, which later became the Labor party, the people would not have been shocked or surprised. Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres made no pretense of hiding their leftist ideology, so when they secretly negotiated the Oslo Accords behind the backs of the nation and in concert with foreign interests, we were not surprised. Lies and contempt for the public was part and parcel of the Labor-Left's way of governing.
Sharon was elected February 6th by a 60% landslide over then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak who had offered Yasser Arafat 97% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, plus half of Jerusalem. Sharon won because the people believed that Sharon, the warrior, and Sharon, the builder of and advocate for the pioneering settlements, would do the job. He would decisively put down Arab Muslim terrorism, stop the hemorrhage of concessions to enemies by prior governments, and secure the people of Israel and the Land of Israel in a non-apologetic, sovereign Jewish State.
Instead, Sharon has become a reincarnation of Barak, Rabin and Peres rolled into one great package. Sadly, Sharon, the politician, emerged from the closet as a leftist, dedicated to re-partitioning the Land of Israel. The years of speeches, promises and recommendations to take the land and build upon it vanished as if he had never spoken. He had adopted the leftists' ideology of lies, no less than Rabin, Peres, Barak, Yossi Beilin, et al.
His secret weapon of de-Judaizing Israel began to catch fire. As the leftists before him had engaged in agreements with foreign powers to lie, intimidate and manipulate the public to please other nations, who in turn had deep vested interests in Arab oil nations, so too Sharon joined them in collaboration. Every move to sway the public, threaten them with everything from escalating Arab Muslim terrorism, to jailing objectors with administrative detention, to cutting off utilities and army protection, is being used. Jews are being threatened with forcible transfer out of their homes, schools, synagogues, farms, factories, businesses and even their graves. Sharon is starting with the 8,200 Jewish men, women and children in Gush Katif (Harvest Block), and an unknown number in the so-called outposts in Judea and Samaria.
Thus, the man who was loved for his defense of the Jewish nation is now looked upon by many as a traitor, engaged in treason to please other nations. Even to say so is risky.
Like King Herod, who called in the Romans to suppress the Jewish people so he could keep his throne, we sadly see a befuddled Sharon, trying to please President George W. Bush, who, in turn, is demanding that Israel be re-partitioned to accommodate another Arab Muslim State of Palestine in Israel's heartland. Even as the Arab Islamists display their perfidious terror across the globe, Sharon and Bush conspire to implant an operational base in Gaza, as a forerunner of a fully fledged state of terrorism in all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
It is an ugly daisy chain of deceit and betrayal.
Sharon has now parted ways with the Jewish people and, like Herod, he belongs - body, soul and pockets - to foreign interests. Sharon has earned the distrust and even hatred of those he has betrayed in word and deed.
Is it any wonder that many Israelis and Jews world-wide have gone from love to hate in such a brief time? Rabin, Peres, Barak and Beilin can claim their own graveyards for the Jews who fell to the Oslo Accords, and so, too, is Sharon building his own cemetery for the Jews who will inevitably fall as a result of the dismantling and re-partition of the nation. Since the Oslo Accords were signed, September 13, 1993, on the White House lawn with President Clinton, more than 1,500 Jewish men, women and children have been cruelly murdered by Arab Muslim terrorists, with tens of thousands wounded, many maimed for life.
There will always be those Jews who will close their eyes to the future and only conveniently use Sharon's past - that of a hero - to achieve re-partition. Observe the example of King Saul who defied G-d's instructions by not killing all the pagan enemy Amalekites then in the Land of Israel. Saul was stripped of his kingship by the Prophet Samuel and, finally, he fell on his own sword for his betrayal of his people.
How the mighty have fallen!