Sharon and his policies unmasked

P. David Hornik writing in FrontPageMag Against the Sharon Cult, says,

Ariel Sharon’s medical emergency has unleashed a wave of media-impelled groupthink in Israel and much of the world. The official line is that he was “the only Israeli leader who could make peace,” and that his loss gravely imperils the “peace process.” The underlying axiom is that his unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and part of the northern West Bank was a wise, courageous step, and a path he would have continued when reelected next March 28.

Carolyn Glick in JPOST in an article The fictitious 'third way'argues,

IT IS true, of course, that Sharon has remade the political map of Israel, just as Rabin did before him. But he did not do so by changing Israelis' basic commitment to their own security. Instead he has made the success of the leftist ostrich policy of "separating" Israel from the Arabs by handing territories to Israel's enemies the central issue of future political campaigns.

Both articles whould be read in full.

Posted by Ted Belman at January 10, 2006 06:09 AM