Sharansky: 'Israel Is a Battlefield'

Sharansky: 'Israel Is a Battlefield'

By Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com:

Although Natan Sharansky recently resigned from his minister's post with the Ariel Sharon government because of his opposition to the Gaza pullout, he remains a busy man. This is because, among other things, he is seen as the informal architect of President Bush's foreign policy that seeks to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East as the best tool for lasting peace. Secure in his role as the world's most consistent advocate of democratization as a basis for foreign policy, the long-time gulag prisoner was in the news in November 2004 when he was invited to the White House to discuss his freshly published "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror."

Sharansky was viewed as a hero in Israel because of his activism for free Soviet emigration, founding Yisrael B'Aliyah in 1995, a moderate right wing party that advocates Zionism. He became a member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in 1996 and has remained one of Israel's most well-known politicians.

NewsMax caught up with the former minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora at his cottage home in the suburbs of Jerusalem.

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Posted by Tim Dormain at August 22, 2005 09:45 PM

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1. A Time to Speak said:

With all due respect to Sharansky's lifetime record, he is wandering away from reality in his faith in "democracy".

"Democracy" means rule by the people. Whether that comes out good or bad depends on the people. A corrupt society will chose a corrupt government. A violent society will choose a violent government.

The idea that if people can freely choose their own governments they will always choose sweetness and light is naive and contrary to historic experience.

Nor does democracy protect the rights of minorities or any of those who think differently from the majority. Benjamin Franklin once defined democracy as "Two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner".

With Sharansky, his program of making the PLO "democratic" and then giving it the historic heartland of the Jewish people for a state of its own is misguided and dangerous.

This is so grievous a mistake that it casts doubt on his clarity of judgment.

Posted by: A Time to Speak on August 22, 2005 11:43 PM

2. willy said:

sima sima adot muh zeh coco bino

Posted by: willy on August 23, 2005 01:08 AM

3. Ed D said:

Mister Sharansky, you have been a hero of mine for many years and I like your phylosophy. If you were elected to be Prime Minister and we were attacked by terrorists, what would you do? If you would do what I think you would do, would you run for the position?

Posted by: Ed D on August 23, 2005 01:20 AM

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