Peace Now: Anti-Anti-Disengagement
This counts as gloating:
Peace Now launched a new campaign Thursday intended to "fill the ranks" of any soldiers that refuse to serve in the evacuation of settlers from their homes under the disengagement plan.
They're not only reveling in the fact that Israel is about to forcibly evict Jews from their homes - they're actually rubbing it in the settlers' noses. Then again, the settlers aren't exactly endearing themselves to anyone:
Residents of settlements in the Gaza Strip took the law into their own hands on Friday, raiding and taking control of a Palestinian house near Kfar Darom, blocking intersections and setting tires and a telephone pole alight... "We feel that we've been abandoned to the wind," continued Kirshenzaft, "We've had enough. The state has abandoned the Jews [in Gush Katif] to evil, just like in the Shoah [Holocaust]. Soon the pressure cooker here will explode."
With understated and well-aimed rhetoric like that, they'll swing Israeli public opinion in no time. It's like a race to the bottom between the left and right in Israel. And stuck in the middle are, well, the centrists.
Incidentally, has anyone made the joke yet that we've finally found a refusnik that Peace Now doesn't like? If not, can I get credit? Where are all he glowing pamphlets and press releases about soldiers following their conscience?
Peace Now launched a new campaign Thursday intended to "fill the ranks" of any soldiers that refuse to serve in the evacuation of settlers from their homes under the disengagement plan.
They're not only reveling in the fact that Israel is about to forcibly evict Jews from their homes - they're actually rubbing it in the settlers' noses. Then again, the settlers aren't exactly endearing themselves to anyone:
Residents of settlements in the Gaza Strip took the law into their own hands on Friday, raiding and taking control of a Palestinian house near Kfar Darom, blocking intersections and setting tires and a telephone pole alight... "We feel that we've been abandoned to the wind," continued Kirshenzaft, "We've had enough. The state has abandoned the Jews [in Gush Katif] to evil, just like in the Shoah [Holocaust]. Soon the pressure cooker here will explode."
With understated and well-aimed rhetoric like that, they'll swing Israeli public opinion in no time. It's like a race to the bottom between the left and right in Israel. And stuck in the middle are, well, the centrists.
Incidentally, has anyone made the joke yet that we've finally found a refusnik that Peace Now doesn't like? If not, can I get credit? Where are all he glowing pamphlets and press releases about soldiers following their conscience?
