Sharon's climactic battle

Hardly anybody likes Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan – not the settlers, not the Palestinians, not the loudest voices in the Likud, not Labor, not Meretz, not The New York Times, not the Bush administration.

About the only political body that approves of the idea is the overwhelming majority of the Israeli people, who have been telling pollsters for years that they want out of the settlements in Gaza and the interior of the West Bank.

Myself, I'm with the majority. Sharon is about to go where none of Labor's Oslo-era prime ministers dared. Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres talked about removing settlements at the end of the process, Ehud Barak proposed it at Camp David, but Sharon is saying that within the next few months, he's going to actually do it.

The skeptics who think this is just more of Sharon's hot air about "painful concessions" don't notice, or don't want to notice, all the evidence that this time he's serious.

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Good luck, Arik. I hope that your plan finally brings peace.