A Call For Sharon's Resignation

There is a sensational column today in the Jewish World Review by Jerusalem Post deputy managing editor, Caroline B. Glick. She outlines exactly how preposterous Sharon's political attacks on his Likud competitors have become lately, castigates his hypocritical strategy of banning Hamas from elections while endorsing Fatah, which has the same charter demand to liquidate Israel as Hamas, and rips Sharon's cowardly appeasement strategy of expelling the Jews from Gaza and giving it to the arabs, which, she points out very astutely, has only served to compromise Israel's security and political integrity.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

In New York over the weekend the premier said that Israel would not facilitate the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council in Judea and Samaria next January if Hamas participates in the poll — although he plans to do nothing in the face of Hamas's ascendancy in Gaza. Sharon argued that to be considered a legitimate political party Hamas would first have to disarm and amend its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel.

This new plan makes sense on the face of it. After all, Hamas is a deadly terrorist organization and, as a US State Department spokesman noted, there is a "fundamental contradiction of groups wanting to keep one foot in the political process and one foot in the camp of terror."

The problem is that this fundamental contradiction describes not only Hamas but every Palestinian political party. Fatah is both the largest terrorist group and the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority. Indeed there are no Palestinian political parties of note that are not terrorist organizations. So why the sudden interest in Hamas?

If anyone had any hope that Sharon would stop appeasing Israel's enemies in the wake of the implementation of his withdrawal and expulsion plan from Gaza, his speech last Thursday at the UN, like his obscene attacks on his political opponents, show clearly that Sharon has no intention of stopping his appeasement bandwagon. If reelected he will make "painful concessions" in Judea and Samaria — meaning further land giveaways to Palestinian terrorists — just as he just did in Gaza.

I recommend you read it all.


-MZ