Everything Old is New Again
I support the disengagement because I think that Israel needs to stop being responsible for the well-being of terrorists that want to destroy the Jewish State because it is the Jewish State. The greatest risk of the disengagement, of course, is that the Palestinians - with the help of the international community - will fall back into their historical pattern of pocketing concessions, refusing to meet their obligations, and then demanding more concessions.
Pocketing concessions...
Israel agreed yesterday to free the last 400 of 900 Palestinian prisoners whose release Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised during a summit in Egypt in February... But Palestinian officials criticized the approved release as insufficient and said they should have been given a say in determining who would be freed.
... refusing to meet their obligations...
Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, reacting Sunday to a Palestinian Authority statement that it had no intention of disarming militant groups as long as the Israeli occupation continues, said the refusal to confiscate weapons is "a cluster bomb in a process that could lead to dialogue and calm."
... and then using the international community to demand more concessions:
Israel must transfer control over the Rafah crossing to the Palestinian Authority, and allow regular passage of people and goods between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, according to a final document on the disengagement plan drafted by the PA's donor countries, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Israel should reoccupy Gaza, root out the terrorists, and end them. Then it should evacuate the settlers, raze the settlements to the ground, leave through the gates of overwhelmingly effective fence that surrounds Gaza, and never look back. Enough with the demands of petty blustering terrorists and internationally popular Holocaust deniers.
Pocketing concessions...
Israel agreed yesterday to free the last 400 of 900 Palestinian prisoners whose release Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised during a summit in Egypt in February... But Palestinian officials criticized the approved release as insufficient and said they should have been given a say in determining who would be freed.
... refusing to meet their obligations...
Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, reacting Sunday to a Palestinian Authority statement that it had no intention of disarming militant groups as long as the Israeli occupation continues, said the refusal to confiscate weapons is "a cluster bomb in a process that could lead to dialogue and calm."
... and then using the international community to demand more concessions:
Israel must transfer control over the Rafah crossing to the Palestinian Authority, and allow regular passage of people and goods between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, according to a final document on the disengagement plan drafted by the PA's donor countries, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Israel should reoccupy Gaza, root out the terrorists, and end them. Then it should evacuate the settlers, raze the settlements to the ground, leave through the gates of overwhelmingly effective fence that surrounds Gaza, and never look back. Enough with the demands of petty blustering terrorists and internationally popular Holocaust deniers.
