Resistance News, 2005_04_17

Resistance News, 2005_04_17


See note at article's end.

1. Schism in the ranks

Even as Sharon's Deportation Plot seems unstoppable, the deep divisions in the ranks of the Resistance are becoming public. Today [2005_04_16], the JPost posted an article by Shaul Godstein, "head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council and deputy head of the Yesha Council", that begins with the following obloquy:

These days anyone who disagrees with the views of long-time settlement movement leaders Elyakim Ha'etzni, Daniella Weiss and company earns the dubious title "leftist." Ha'etzni and Co. have the monopoly on knowledge, wisdom and prophecy. The rest of us are supposedly in the dark.


2. JPost's unequivocal support for Sharon's Deportation Plot

In addition to the foregoing article, JPost has also published an editorial by Hillel Shuval "professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Council for Peace and Security". With these credentials, one may well imagine what would spew from such a pen. And indeed, the article, entitled, "A mistake, right from the start" contents that building the communities, not dismantling them, was "A mistake, right from the start". With these two articles, and none to counterbalance, JPost places itself squarely among Sharon's lackeys.


3. A sober assessment from al-Ha'aretz

Under the heading, "The long goodbye" (by Amir Oren), al-Ha'aretz ran a long, detailed article on Sharon's Deportation Plot. The essence may be gleaned from the first and last paragraphs, as follows:

In 1967, the Israel Defense Forces needed three divisions - one regular and two reserve - to conquer Sinai and Gaza. In 2005, the IDF will need three divisions - two regular and one reserve - to evacuate Gaza alone. And that isn't all: For the first time in its history, the Israel Police will also deploy two divisional frameworks - to assist in the evacuation....

[T]here is no disagreement about what can be expected after the summer: The prediction is that by next January to March, after Palestinian terror has increased and become more sophisticated, the IDF will return to Gaza.

This being the assessment, one may well ask: then why put 9,000 pioneers through the inferno of deportation and resettlement?


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.

Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at April 17, 2005 08:01 AM

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1. BobW said:

Re 1, 2, 3;

I believe it was Lord Tennyson who said to clarify a matter, exaggerate it. It then becomes clearer for a focus. Only then can it be studied and acted upon.

There is no schism in the ranks. Two (or more) seperate and distinct societies are forced by historical circumstance to remain together. This can be called the Altalena matter.

Things change. When was the most recent animal sacrifice? The JPost has since been replaced by Arutz 7. Hillel Shoval could be a professor emeritus from Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow.

A probable answer to a possible riddle in the question after "3."; A segment of Israeli and diaspora society, to include their megaphone, al Ha'aretz, do not consider the 9,000 "pioneers". They are considered enemy combatants.

Determine the order of battle. The threats are not coming from Cairo and Damman. The Arabs have always been around and they have their own enemies in the West. Before anyone resolves the order of battle, please do not give your notes to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Kol tuv,
BobW

Posted by: BobW on April 17, 2005 05:26 AM

2. felix quigley said:

Bob, I think you are wrong when you write 'The threats are not coming from Cairo and Damman. The Arabs have always been around and they have their own enemies in the West.'

The threats are very definitely coming from the Arab world and the wider Muslim World, and they are the Islamo-fascist states who are just as worked up bout the Jews as was Hitler. That is a real danger to the Jewish state and to Jews, a real physical danger, because if Iranian mullahs talk about nuclear bombs in this context we have to take them as seriously as the Nazis should have been taken.

In another sense you are right, the state of Israel is being prepared for the kill from within. This is where your reference to the Atalena Affair is so important because these divisions have existed right from the word go. Begin in command of the Atalena appealed and appealed to the commander on the shore not to attack the ship 8during the 'truce' in 1948. The appeal of Begin was moderate, it was simply for a SHARE of the arms on the ship. It is possible the commander who Begin appealed to was Yitzhak Rabin. So they sunk it anyway. It was an act of betrayal, an act of suicide.

The parallels to today are so obvious. Who is right wing and who is left in Israel today. The terms themselves lead to confusion. Like Begin the most loyal and the most progressive are the settlers of Gaza who will not cave into the state, and those supporters who will find their way to Central Park.

But, Bob, it is the Islamo-fascists who would do the deed and they would literally chop the heads off Sharon's traitorous tendency as well. Don't forget, the stalinists and social democratic traitors who in 1933 said, 'After Hitler our turn' ended up in very quick order in the death camps or what was to become the death camps.

Posted by: felix quigley on April 18, 2005 06:50 AM

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