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| Israel-Palestine |
| Jewish radicals gunning for Sharon, al-Aqsa? |
| 2004-09-20 |
| Almost 30 years ago, I visited Ariel Sharon at his ranch, an isolated spread not far from the Gaza Strip. There were Arab workers all over the place. "Aren't you worried about your safety?" I asked. Sharon gave me a look I've never forgotten. Worried? He was a warrior in his prime, the toughest Israeli of his generation. Who could hurt him? Sharon is an old man now, surrounded by a thick cordon of security. Hamas terrorists in Gaza routinely threaten him, but he's still not afraid of Arabs. It's his own countrymen who want to kill him. The irony is obvious to Sharon himself. "I've been defending the Jews all my life," he said in July. "Now, I have to be protected from the Jews." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 I guess Chafetz's view is that anyone who's religious is the moral equivalent of al Qaeda Ive read chafetz for some time, and hes no dove. He thinks folks who are not only religious, but fanatical, and prepared to commit acts of terrorism, are like AQ. Now obviously killing an elected leader of a democracy is not in the same class as killing babies, but some of us recall a time when such acts WERE called terrorism. Which, BTW, is why some of us have difficulty with the leftie notion that Saddam never commited acts of terror against the US, when he DID attempt to kill George H. W. Bush. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-09-20 3:12:23 PM |
| #3 ..build it high and deep and electrify it.> Too bad we aren't doing the same thing at the Mexican border. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-20 12:08:58 PM |
| #2 Zev Chafets: The hillboys are Al Qaeda in yarmulkes, and, like Al Qaeda, they are armed - mostly with weapons stolen from Israeli Army units that have been sent to protect them over the years. Al Qaeda has killed thousands of American civilians. I don't think folks who don't like Sharon are like al Qaeda, even if they want to kill him. That was just such a nutty statement, I don't know what to make of it. I guess Chafetz's view is that anyone who's religious is the moral equivalent of al Qaeda. My bet is that he probably thinks GWB is like al Qaeda. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-20 1:31:53 AM |
| #1 Sharon has gotten Israel closer to victory over the terrorists than anybody in my memory. Build that wall, Ariel, build it high and deep and electrify it. The hardliners may have to make a compromise and move but that is a SMALL price to pay to finally isolate the terrorists behind a big wall. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-09-20 12:32:21 AM |