Deescalation

Earlier this morning, the Israel government said there would be no retribution for the horrific and barbaric displays we saw yesterday. This, I suppose, was in Palestinians’ way of saying thanks – CNN has their red bar up reporting this as five or more killed, so I’m assuming that this Ha’aretz story is just behind.

In the absence of a massive military operation that completely crushes the Palestinian terrorist presence in Gaza, Sharon can’t disengage now. It would be an open victory for terrorists. Both the Right (because they don’t want to disengage) and the Left (because they hate Sharon) are already spinning the last week’s violence as Sharon’s fault (I think the phrase I saw in an Ha’aretz or JPost article earlier this morning was “most violent and sophisticated attacks to date”). There’s no way he withdraws now – and there