Fashionable European Leftists Can't Forgive Sharon
And by "forgive" him, we mean "stop pathologically hating him". Woland passes on this shameful story:
For about 10 minutes that I had the patience to watch [Sky News] I watched so called experts compete in who will make a bigger monster of a sick and probably dying man. One of the "experts", a round faced man with thinning gray-white hair, was telling the audience how for the last five years Ariel Sharon "has put a veil on the world eyes"... That [while leave Gaza] Sharon was securing Israel true interest - the [W]est ]B]ank, effectively expanding the [W]est [B]ank settlements while pretending to oppose it, and cutting of Jerusalem and Arab towns and lands by building a security fence.
We have little to add. Except to note that, among the worst trespasses the Prime Minister committed according to these people was that - although he gave the Palestinians land for their own state - he also worked for Israeli security and prosperity. These British 'experts' apparently see a zero-sum tradeoff between Israeli and Palestinian interests. If Sharon was still holding onto something for Israel, then he must necessarily have been taking something away from the Palestinians. This places such experts in opposition to Israel peacemakers, who believe that Israelis and Palestinians can live in a mutually benificial peace. On the other hand, it places them on the same side as the most radical Palestinian terrorists, who think that there's a zero-sum relationship between Jews and Arabs, and that one side has to be destroyed for the other to prosper.
For about 10 minutes that I had the patience to watch [Sky News] I watched so called experts compete in who will make a bigger monster of a sick and probably dying man. One of the "experts", a round faced man with thinning gray-white hair, was telling the audience how for the last five years Ariel Sharon "has put a veil on the world eyes"... That [while leave Gaza] Sharon was securing Israel true interest - the [W]est ]B]ank, effectively expanding the [W]est [B]ank settlements while pretending to oppose it, and cutting of Jerusalem and Arab towns and lands by building a security fence.
We have little to add. Except to note that, among the worst trespasses the Prime Minister committed according to these people was that - although he gave the Palestinians land for their own state - he also worked for Israeli security and prosperity. These British 'experts' apparently see a zero-sum tradeoff between Israeli and Palestinian interests. If Sharon was still holding onto something for Israel, then he must necessarily have been taking something away from the Palestinians. This places such experts in opposition to Israel peacemakers, who believe that Israelis and Palestinians can live in a mutually benificial peace. On the other hand, it places them on the same side as the most radical Palestinian terrorists, who think that there's a zero-sum relationship between Jews and Arabs, and that one side has to be destroyed for the other to prosper.
