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Originally posted by Undertoad
It would very certainly have an effect, especially on Israelis. Israelis would never have elected Sharon in the first place, except that the reaction of Palestinians to softer (or in tw's terms, "non-extremist") prime ministers was increased terrorism.
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How myopic. Sharon got elected because he created the Intafada. Any statement contrary to that fact is an outright lie. The latest PBS (was it Frontline) documentary on Middle East negotiations specifically states that Sharon started the intafada. They also stated that fact explicitly. When honest people were the Israeli leaders, there was virtually no Palestinian attacks.
Last night's BBC interviewed a mother whose daughter was a victim of a Palestinian suicide bomb. She blames Sharon directly. She is the Israeli that would be disturbed by a burning Palestinians. Likud would simply laugh and call it a barbecue. She says, explicitly, her daughter would we alive today if not for Sharon. She also says there is no future in Israel because of Sharon and therefore seeks to emigrate from Israel.
Sharon is the only reason for the intafada. Palestinians are responding as they must to outright Likud terrorism - including the wholesale occupation of the West Bank in direct violation of International law and worldwide condemnation. But then what do mass murders care about a few inconvenient laws when there are dog Palestinians to slaughter. And so the UN conference on racism now labled Israel as a racist nation.