Sharon, Arafat and Bush must go

Sharon, Arafat and Bush must go

By Akiva Eldar



Abba Eban used to say that Israeli leaders make the right decisions only after they have exhausted all other possibilities. Henry Kissinger noted that Israel has no foreign policy, only domestic policy. Ariel Sharon's decision to get out of Netzarim, the apple of his eye, and his attempt to stitch together a "disengagement plan" that will circumnavigate what the Likud membership referendum, reconfirms the evaluations of these eminent men of foreign affairs.



The two would surely agree that without a little help from friends in the White House, domestic considerations would have extended the agony-strewn road to a number of correct Israeli decisions.

Luckily, those friends did not believe that "help" meant blind support of the most extreme government ever to rule from Jerusalem. Who knows, if George Bush had been in the White House during the "reevaluation" of Israel-U.S. policy that pushed Yitzhak Rabin into signing the 1975 separation of forces agreement in Sinai, Sharon might today be laying the cornerstone for Upper Yamit 6. If Bush had been in charge of Camp David 1 in September 1978, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat might today be ordering his chief of staff to send armed forces to Rafah, instead of the head of Egyptian intelligence being dispatched to restrain the Palestinians.

American presidents who contributed to correct Israeli decisions would not be announcing, at the end of a week during which Israel killed 42 Palestinians, among them eight children, and made 1,560 Palestinians homeless, that events would not influence friendship with Israel. Administrations that were willing to invest international political resources in peace initiatives did not shred presidential plans, one after the other, as if they had never existed. American leaders, among them the father of the present president, who believed that deepening the occupation was harmful to U.S. (and Israeli) interests did not ignore the "thickening" of the settlements......

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/431064.html

good riddance

Sharon will eat the other two as a between meal snack and then die from food poisoning.

the FACTS on the GROUND indicate he's bit off more than he can chew :crazy:

peace

with a winning streak like his he almost makes the Bush family look competent.

Maybe they can be cell mates in The Hague.