Sharon....real change???

Jagger · Aug 21, 2005

Is this really Sharon???? Or is it just a smoke screen? As impossible as it seems, has Sharon gained some compassion and wisdom in his old age. Or is he just making the best deal he can with the inevitable?

From Haaretz here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614016.html

You have to read Sharon's speech

By Nehemia Strasler

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For the first time, we heard the reason for the shift in his position: demography. It is demography that forced the evacuation of Gaza on anyone wishing to live in a state with a Jewish majority and who is not prepared to rely on the messiah. The approximately 1.3 million Arabs now living in the Gaza Strip are what changed Sharon's mind. "We will not be able to hold onto Gaza forever. Over a million Palestinians live there, and they are doubling in number every generation."

Indeed, on the eve of the disengagement, Jews became a minority between the Mediterranean and the Jordan. The percentage of Jews living in territories controlled by Israel is now 49 percent; after the withdrawal from Gaza, they will once again be in the majority.

In the same speech, Sharon expressed compassion for the other side: "They are crowded into especially densely populated refugee camps, in poverty and suffering, in hothouses of increasingly rising hatred, without any horizon of hope."

These, too, are new words, which essentially place responsibility for the suffering and high unemployment that have developed in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli occupation. Not only did we not invest there, not only did we not build or develop, but we exploited them as a cheap labor force, we sold them our `Grade B' and `freshness date expired,' and we did not enable them to build up an industry that might have competed with its Israeli counterpart, heaven forbid. In Gush Katif, 7,500 people gained control over 20 percent of the land in Gaza, and over more than 20 percent of the water. If that is not cruel colonialism, then what is?
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Sharon did not use his speech to joyfully declare that he has no intention of withdrawing from even one millimeter of Judea and Samaria. In fact, he opened the door to a continuation of the process: "The world is awaiting the Palestinian response, a hand toward peace or the fire of terrorism. We will respond to the outstretched hand with an olive leaf, but we will respond to fire with stronger fire than ever before."

Herein lies a hint that the Gaza prototype, with requisite corrections, would be applied in areas to the east. In an interview appearing in last Friday's Yedioth Ahronoth, Sharon provided a few more details about his plans for the West Bank: "Not everything will remain; the settlement blocs will remain."
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Brian Foley · Aug 23, 2005

Jagger said:

Is this really Sharon???? Or is it just a smoke screen? As impossible as it seems, has Sharon gained some compassion and wisdom in his old age. Or is he just making the best deal he can with the inevitable?
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I dont think so , I really believe a lot of Jewish people in Israel see the writing on the wall . Palestinians in Israel are going to demographically outnumber Jews sometime next year . In the end they know Israel will once more become Palestine , what we are seein here in the beginning of the end .

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