Sharon And Palestine Update

All Things Beautiful, blog that has plenty of wonderful images, repeats some of the confusions that Israeli apologists make.   It's the same old: how do we justify the cruelty to Palestinians and undermine the claims that Muslims have in that part of the world.   It's the early phase of ethnic cleansing.  How easy it is for good people to do.

Although, as a human being, I hope that Sharon is only taken in God's time, Sharon is one of the world leaders I have truly despised, like Arafat (I think they needed each other), Mugabe, Mobutu (a good friend of Sharon), Somoza, Pinochet, and Kissenger.  He was a brutal soldier, and deeply corrupt.   Lord forgive me. 

May someone who supports the Geneva-Initiative find themselves miraculously placed in a position of authority. 

I suspect there will be more Americans who mourn his passing than Israelis.

I've stated before, having reliable sources is crucial.  Alexandra herself states that we have to begin with the truth.  MERIP is a good place to start:  professional, balanced, policy oriented. 

Sharon was found by the Kahan commission to be responsible for the 62 hour rampage, resulting in the murder of infants, children, and women.  Not to mention El-Bureig or Qibya.   he was a good soldier, I suppose - deadly, at least.  And being good at killing Arabs is a good way to ensure peace.

Amos Oz once interviewed a top level soldier, mistaken for Sharon by many Israeli Journalists, [but  probably Motta Gur].  The soldier said,

      "Even today I am       willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many       Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have       everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora       Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means       blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care. And I don't       mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and       then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. Then you       can spruce up your Jewish conscience and enter the respectable club of       civilised nations, nations that are large and healthy. What you lot don't       understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from       it. True, it could have been finished in 1948, but you interfered, you       stopped it. And all this because of the Jewishness in your souls, because       of your Diaspora mentality. For the Jews don't grasp things quickly. If       you open your eyes and look around the world you will see that darkness is       falling again. And we know what happens to a Jew who stays out in the       dark. So I am glad that this small war in Lebanon frightened the Yids. Let       them be afraid, let them suffer. They should hurry home before it gets       really dark. So I am an anti-Semite? Fine. So don't quote me, quote       Lilienblum instead [an early Russian Zionist - ed.]. There is no need to       quote an anti-Semite. Quote Lilienblum, and he is definitely not an       anti-Semite, there is even a street in Tel Aviv named after him". (C.       quotes from a small notebook that was lying on his table when I arrived:)

      

      'Is all that is       happening not a clear sign that our forefathers and ourselves ... wanted       and still want to be disgraced? That we enjoy living like gypsies.' That's       Lilienblum. Not me. Believe me. I went through the Zionist literature, I       can prove what I say".

      

      "And you can write       that I am disgrace to humanity, I don't mind, on the contrary. Let's make       a deal: I will do all I can to expel the Arabs from here, I will do all I       can to increase anti-Semitism, and you will write poems and essays about       the misery of the Arabs and be prepared to absorb the Yids I will force to       flee to this country and teach them to be a light unto the gentiles. How       about it?"

The peace process can only improve now that both the old terrorists have died.  May they both be together, in hell, or by God's mercy, forgiven.

Comments

Good God.

[Phil Snyder]

However evil or wrong Sharon may have been in his younger years, he still worked for peace in the Middle East and forced the evacuation of Gaza and gave it back to the Palestinians.

YBIC,
Phil Snyder

[John Wilkins]

I think Sharon worked for a sort of peace that would have made Palestinians a lot like native Americans. I'm also deeply suspicous of his leaving GAza - it seems that it was a way for him to continue expanding into the west bank, as Dov Weinglass, his best friend, noted. I think his leaving Gaza set the Palestinians up for failure.