Sharon's Partner In Fratricide
Upon further review I see that last Friday I left out this little detail, which adds a great deal of clarifying context to how the man who was the ultimate icon of the Israeli right could possibly be cutting and running from Gaza and Samaria:
The disengagement plan that, as Caroline Glick pointed out last week, Mr. Sharon was overwhelmingly re-elected two years ago to oppose.
And guess who his vice-premier is:
Shimon Peres, the ferocious pacifist who will not let Israel's enemies take no for an answer because he unilaterally struck that term from his vocabulary long ago. Shimon Peres, the man whose weak premiership after the death of Yitzhak Rabin got the Jewish state so besieged that he was ousted overwhelmingly in favor of Binyamin Netanyahu. Shimon Peres, who had to be politically buried in favor of the nominally Clintonoid Ehud Barak in order for Labor to survive as a nationally viable political entity. And now here he is again, still trying doggedly to give away the store and trudge his people back into exile, or (far more likely) worse.
I guess that's the nature of Israeli politics: a really short "bench." Even American Democrats have more leadership turnover than their Labor counterparts do. Nothing else can explain how a purblind loser like Peres keeps popping to the surface like a turd that won't flush.
But I'm afraid nothing explains why Ariel Sharon has shafted his own Likudniks and made common cause with him. The new Israeli governing status quo essentially disenfranchises those who oppose ceding their country's defense to outsiders and pieces of paper. And that'll be a hellish predicament once Hamas has finished converting Gaza and Samaria into Taliban II.
I hope that Bebe is prepared to move against Sharon when the opportunity arises. That might prove to be "the Third Temple's" penultimate hope.
UPDATE 7/26: Dennis Prager posts an outstanding column today placing the blame for the GWOT right where it belongs:
Labor has been Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's key political ally in his bid to implement the disengagement plan.
The disengagement plan that, as Caroline Glick pointed out last week, Mr. Sharon was overwhelmingly re-elected two years ago to oppose.
And guess who his vice-premier is:
Shimon Peres said on Sunday that there was no chance of reaching a "conclusive agreement" with the Palestinians unless Israel partitioned Jerusalem and ceded the West Bank city of Hebron, Haaretz reported.
Shimon Peres, the ferocious pacifist who will not let Israel's enemies take no for an answer because he unilaterally struck that term from his vocabulary long ago. Shimon Peres, the man whose weak premiership after the death of Yitzhak Rabin got the Jewish state so besieged that he was ousted overwhelmingly in favor of Binyamin Netanyahu. Shimon Peres, who had to be politically buried in favor of the nominally Clintonoid Ehud Barak in order for Labor to survive as a nationally viable political entity. And now here he is again, still trying doggedly to give away the store and trudge his people back into exile, or (far more likely) worse.
I guess that's the nature of Israeli politics: a really short "bench." Even American Democrats have more leadership turnover than their Labor counterparts do. Nothing else can explain how a purblind loser like Peres keeps popping to the surface like a turd that won't flush.
But I'm afraid nothing explains why Ariel Sharon has shafted his own Likudniks and made common cause with him. The new Israeli governing status quo essentially disenfranchises those who oppose ceding their country's defense to outsiders and pieces of paper. And that'll be a hellish predicament once Hamas has finished converting Gaza and Samaria into Taliban II.
I hope that Bebe is prepared to move against Sharon when the opportunity arises. That might prove to be "the Third Temple's" penultimate hope.
UPDATE 7/26: Dennis Prager posts an outstanding column today placing the blame for the GWOT right where it belongs:
In the last few weeks, innocent men, women and children have been blown up, paralyzed, brain damaged and otherwise had their lives ruined by Muslim suicide bombers in Britain, Egypt and Iraq.
Who can we thank for this man-made plague? Palestinians and the Left.
posted by JASmius at 4:49 PM
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