1. Eitan said:

Wow...makes one doubt the legitimacy of the Sharon regime. I was happy when I heard of the news that our boys had closed of the Ayalon and regretted not being there. It really hurts to see Jews expressing their blind hatred for their brethren, especially those whose #1 goal is to bring real peace and quiet to Israel. Although I've been a staunch Sharon supporter and continue to admire the man rather then the politician (I tend to think that we must draw a border between the two somewhere) I'm beginning to doubt his intentions. The amount of physical force, the hatred, the anger of the armed forces against the so-called "settlers" is very alarming.

2. Felix Quigley said:

I do think that Sharon and Peres will go down in Jewish history as the greatest traitors to the Jews ever. As regards Sharon the General - people are often in politics transformed into their opposite. This Gaza action in the end is part of the Road Map and the Road Map is really the Bush-Prince Bandar Road Map. This is what Sharon is carrying out. I wrote this after I saw a piece of the storming of the Hotel on TV:

As I write this the image of Sharon and Peres thugs bounding like a band of hyenas up the steps of the Jewish hotel is still fresh on my mind! These thugs are mindless. They are the ideological product of lies and lies about the Judaic tradition which has been conducted by the social democratic and stalinist “Left” really since 1948 and even before.. But Sharon and Peres and the Likud Party who did not act against Sharon are the traitors and they are finished in Israeli society.

The backdrop to this action, we must never forget, are those polls which showed that the Israeli Public had moved decisively against this action of uprooting Jews from Yesha. This is the action of desparate people who are opposed to democracy!

Ariel “Abu” Sharon is being transformed into a Nazi-type figure and his police and army special forces are being transformed into the Stasi. Now Sharon is really using Nazi tactics against his own Jews.

This is not even a Jewish thing in that sence. History of every country (and I mean evetry country) is full of examples of traitors turning against their own progressive and revolutionary forces.

In this situation I reject with derision all those Israeli-haters in the media who refer to the valiant Jews who man the barricades against this Jewish special Gestapo as being “right-wing”. What a senseless phrase? What is it supposed to connote? It certainly doesn’t refer to socio-economic factors. What then? What is “right-wing” when these stupid and illiterate (really) scribblers of this bourgeois media refer as such to the wonderful young Jews who are dragged down, six at least Stasi to a slightly–built kid. Not right-wing in any way, just the most progressive forces in the world today.

What if some of these kids are reading the Torah? I am an atheist and a dialectical materialist and I say with all my heart “Well, good for them”. I hope they will go on and continue the Judaic religion and culture for as long as they live. They have seen the empty phoney-secularism of the Stalinist Mapai and social democracy and they do not like it. And they are right in my opinion because this stalinist mapai-politics (Sharon) and social democracy (Peres) are of the same ilk as that which betrayed the German working class movement and German people in general to the German Nazis of 1933. In their case secularism does not equal Spinoza but cynical Eichman. But remember they are Jews in the final analysis and they will pay the price as well if the nazi stormtroopers of Abbas have their way.'