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Originally posted by BrianR
Sharon doesn't have much choice in this. We are about Israel's only significant ally. If we withdraw our support, Israel is doomed. Sharon is no fool, he knows this.
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Sharon knows nothing of the kind. Clearly you don't know the man who as Brigader General lead Israeli divisions into daring missions to take Sinai from Egypt, from nearly bringing the US and USSR into direct nuclear war (the closest the world ever came to nuclear war) in direct and intentional disregard of UN and international agreements, from invading Lebanon even in contadiction to order from both his Prime Minister and Pres Reagan, ....
Sharon has only one objective - taking land for the greater glory of Zionism. He has no change of heart. As a shrewd general, he is simply changing tactics again. The strategic objective has never changed. Changed again is the tactical objective - and how that campaign is portrayed to us.
Sharon remembers with grea personal shame that the Israeli Army forcefully removed Israeli settlement from Sinai. Likud has promised that national disgrace will never happen again. As long a Sharon and Lukid are in power, all tactics are for the conquest of occupied territories - ethnic cleansing of the land.
Until you can say - with Israeli settlement building foundations actually being removed - that right wing extremist Israelis have given up their ambitions - only then is that a reasonable speculation. For as long as any of us have understood world politics, it has always been the objective of right wing extremist Israelis to ethnic cleans the land they regard as theirs - as god has decreed.
Reagan is said to have maintained on his Oval Office desk a picture of a Palestinian girl - because she was a victim of Sharon's massacre of 5,000 Palestinian women and children. A massacre because even Reagan could not stop Defense Minister Sharon from consolidating his positions - until he had traveled 100 miles to Beruit. Such a man does not give up on his life long ambition to conquer territory for the greater glory of Israel. Sharon has not changed. He only plays games with how we perceive him. Trust him - zero.