2. Shame, shame, shame!

Excerpt from JPost, 2005_03_16:

With the disengagement looming four months away and after receiving a long-awaited budget supplement, the police on Thursday unveiled the latest line in new police vehicles, weapons and uniforms that will be used during the evacuation from the Gaza Strip...

While some 5,000 policemen will participate in what police have called the evacuation's "inner circle" where they will evacuate settlers from their homes, a horse, Asst.-Cmdr. Amos Carmeli explained, is the equivalent of 100 policemen.

"Horses will play a fundamental role in the evacuation from Gaza," said Carmeli, from the police's Technological and Logistics Department. "We plan to use between 50 to 60 horses while according to our calculations each horse equals 100 policemen."

Settler leaders expressed shock upon hearing that German horses would be used during the evacuation...

3. How can Sharon be stopped now?

This amazing headline comes from no other source than al-Ha'aretz itself! Apart from an analysis of various scenarios, presented in a rather clinical, analytical manner, the article also provides an introduction that is good enough to quote on IsraPundit:

By any stretch of the imagination, Sharon should have been stopped long ago. His own party has been in open revolt for three of his four years in power. He has called his life's work into question by doing what no predecessor, not Rabin, not Barak, nor even Shimon Peres, dared even suggest: take down settlements, and not just the odd, isolated, depopulated enclave, but more than two dozen at a stroke. His grip on power has been authoritatively pronounced dead dozens of times. And there he is, still.

Then there is the matter of the settlement movement.

No social movement in Israel's history has fought the government with so much intelligence, physical effort, and money - much of it the government's own - and with so little to show for it.

In gargantuan protests, settlers and their allies on the right have fought Sharon on the beaches, they have fought him on the streets and highways, they have vowed never to surrender. In Likud election after Likud election they have won every battle.

They have resigned from his cabinet and from his coalition. They have mobilized influential rabbis and powerful American Jewish communities against him. They know their 77-year-old opponent as well as they know themselves.

And they haven't slowed him a single step.

Read the basic three scenarios (budget vote/topple the government; stalling/referendum; "radical protest") at the link given above.

4. Vox populi: a majority want a referendum

On 2005_03_16, JPost reported the results of a poll conducted in Israel:

52% of the Israelis support and 44% oppose a referendum on Sharon's disengagement plan.

Why not listen to the people?

Note: "Resistance News" is a daily column devoted to news about the Jewish resistance to Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plan. Let it not be said that IsraPundit observed the ethnic-cleansing of Jews in Yesha and reacted with indifference.