4/3 Extra: Palestinian Girl

[Lost Viking]

Here is an interesting interview with Ariel Sharon from 2001, it answers a lot of questions.


http://www.humanityonhold.com/sharon/quotes.html

How will you react if Arafat unilaterally declares an independent Palestinian state?
"First, I would advise him not to do that. That would be a mistake on his part. Both the last government in which I was a member and the Barak government had a clear stand on this subject. A stand that obligates us to take a series of measures to retain the areas that are vital to us."

And what about the plans for separation between Israel and the Palestinians?
"I see no possibility of separation. I don't believe in the idea of us here and them there. In my opinion, that possibility does not exist in practical terms. I always said that it is possible to live with the Arabs."

"But if you ask me what hope I am offering to the Israeli public, I propose setting a series of national goals: bringing a million Jews within 12 years, so that by 2020 the majority of the Jewish people will be living in Israel; developing the Negev, which is the last reserve available for Jewish settlement; and renewing education according to Zionist principles, which will restore the sense of the justice of the struggle and the feeling that we have a full right to this land, ideas which have been very much eroded in recent years."

How can there possibly be peace when such a person is leading Israel?