CIVIL WAR? : ISRAEL
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It could happen. Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and United States President George W. Bush meet face-to-face in Texas considering the situation. Sharon is frank. He informs the President that it could be civil war.
Why? Not only because of tensions between Palestinian Authority and Israeli government. But also because of stress between Jew and Jew.
On July 20 Jewish houses in the Gaza community are to be vacated by inhabitants. Jews ousted will be put in motels and hotels. Their furniture will be warehoused in locations not known.
Jewish guard police will drag Jews from their homes then. It’s called Disengagement. But all’s not in a name, that’s for sure. There’s much angst attached to that rather ambiguous title given to putting people out of their houses, out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities for places foreign.
No wonder it could yield civil war as well as Arab-Israeli conflict continuing and enhanced. All the while the United States has encouraged the Disengagement. It’s seen as part of the Roadmap to Peace. In other words, in order to appease the PA, Israeli officialdom has to do its part. Part of "its part" is unloading Gaza of Jews so that Arabs can move in.
It’s all quite complicated, considering that the 1967 Six Day War ended up with Jews taking hold of the Gaza Strip as well as Golan Heights, West Bank, all of Jerusalem and Egypt Sinai. Now it’s time for Jews to leave what they gained in 1967? There are those ardent, educated, professional leader Jews in Israel as well as America who say absolutely NO.
That now puts American Bush administration and Israeli politic in a tight squeeze they have made for themselves and perhaps for the outbreak of civil war.
According to the Christian Science Monitor’s "Monitor’s View" dated April 11, 2005: "A smooth withdrawal from Gaza - as long as it's not a quid pro quo for Israeli entrenchment in the West Bank - is in everybody's best interest. President George Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (who meets with Mr. Bush in Texas Monday), and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas must do all they can to ensure it's a success."
Sharon has stated that he will not squash the Gaza Jewish homes vacated; but that of course does not seem to be much comfort to those who now dwell therein. In other words, big deal! A person without a home is still a person without a home — squash or no squash. In other words, it’s enough to make some go to war — civil war.
Stay tuned.
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It could happen. Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and United States President George W. Bush meet face-to-face in Texas considering the situation. Sharon is frank. He informs the President that it could be civil war.
Why? Not only because of tensions between Palestinian Authority and Israeli government. But also because of stress between Jew and Jew.
On July 20 Jewish houses in the Gaza community are to be vacated by inhabitants. Jews ousted will be put in motels and hotels. Their furniture will be warehoused in locations not known.
Jewish guard police will drag Jews from their homes then. It’s called Disengagement. But all’s not in a name, that’s for sure. There’s much angst attached to that rather ambiguous title given to putting people out of their houses, out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities for places foreign.
No wonder it could yield civil war as well as Arab-Israeli conflict continuing and enhanced. All the while the United States has encouraged the Disengagement. It’s seen as part of the Roadmap to Peace. In other words, in order to appease the PA, Israeli officialdom has to do its part. Part of "its part" is unloading Gaza of Jews so that Arabs can move in.
It’s all quite complicated, considering that the 1967 Six Day War ended up with Jews taking hold of the Gaza Strip as well as Golan Heights, West Bank, all of Jerusalem and Egypt Sinai. Now it’s time for Jews to leave what they gained in 1967? There are those ardent, educated, professional leader Jews in Israel as well as America who say absolutely NO.
That now puts American Bush administration and Israeli politic in a tight squeeze they have made for themselves and perhaps for the outbreak of civil war.
According to the Christian Science Monitor’s "Monitor’s View" dated April 11, 2005: "A smooth withdrawal from Gaza - as long as it's not a quid pro quo for Israeli entrenchment in the West Bank - is in everybody's best interest. President George Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (who meets with Mr. Bush in Texas Monday), and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas must do all they can to ensure it's a success."
Sharon has stated that he will not squash the Gaza Jewish homes vacated; but that of course does not seem to be much comfort to those who now dwell therein. In other words, big deal! A person without a home is still a person without a home — squash or no squash. In other words, it’s enough to make some go to war — civil war.
Stay tuned.
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