SHARON CABINET MINISTER QUITS: GAZA EVACUATION = ‘TERRIBLE RIFT’
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky’s moral base is right on. He’s ethically doing what his conscience has pressed him to do.
He regrets his resignation. He is not happy with Israel’s future. He fears for Jews’ tomorrows. But he can’t be party to what’s been labeled the "Disengagement."
That particular term relates to Jews throwing Jews out of their Gaza Strip dwellings — out of their living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, out of their neighborhoods. It means perchance an actual civil war within the Holy Land itself.
Major angst has settled in upon a people who live with tragedy, blood flow, and injustices every day of their lives. Now it’s gone far over the charts. That’s why Sharansky can’t morally stay on board with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet. So he resigned, as reported from Jerusalem by Larry James of VOA, dated May 2, 2005.
"Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky has resigned, saying Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements is a tragic mistake that will encourage more Palestinian violence and serve to divide Israeli society."
Israel, in the Six Day War of 1967, won the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, all of Jerusalem, the West Bank and Egypt Sinai. Why then should Israel turn over any of that geography to the Palestinian Authority that has absolutely no history for stable peace making?
The Muslims have continued to enhance murderers global. They have fed the killing machine night and day. Words words words and more words have flowed from the opportunistic political so-called leadership under the PA banner, but the younger generation continues to be indoctrinated that all Jews are "pigs." All Jews must be obliterated, starting with those inhabiting Israel.
With no actual change in any of that Muslim tirade, Sharansky concludes he can’t be a part of the Jewish onslaught now scheduled against his own people in the Gaze community. It just can’t happen; not on his watch.
I admire him so very much. He should be lauded throughout his country for his noble testimony to what is right.
"Mr. Sharansky delivered his letter of resignation to Mr. Sharon Monday morning. In it, he laid out the reasons for his action. He says the Gaza withdrawal plan will only weaken the chances for a true peace with the Palestinians and says it will create a serious threat to Israeli society. In his words, ‘We are standing before a terrible rift in the nation and, to my regret, I sense no effort by the government to prevent it.’"
It is fact. Sharon himself spoke to American reporters when visiting US President George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas. In his remarks, Sharon stated to the press that "civil war" could come to his homeland. That comes from the PM’s lips. It’s not a fabricated fear. It’s daily possible horrible.
"Natan Sharansky has been a frequent critic of Sharon policy which, he has said, has been one of giving too many concessions, while getting little in return.
"Natan Sharansky is the author of the influential book ‘The Case for Democracy,’ which President Bush has said articulates his belief in the need to spread democracy around the world.
"Before immigrating to Israel in the mid-1980's Natan, then known as Anatoly, Sharansky was one of the best-known dissidents and political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He was jailed in 1977, charged with spying for the United States, and spent 10 years in Soviet prisons, until international pressure led the Soviets to release him, strip him of his Soviet citizenship and deport him to Israel."
From his bio, it does appear as if the resigned cabinet minister surely does have experience from which to draw his present wisdom. It’s sad that he goes while the Disengagement continues.
It’s all so absolutely unfair.
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Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky’s moral base is right on. He’s ethically doing what his conscience has pressed him to do.
He regrets his resignation. He is not happy with Israel’s future. He fears for Jews’ tomorrows. But he can’t be party to what’s been labeled the "Disengagement."
That particular term relates to Jews throwing Jews out of their Gaza Strip dwellings — out of their living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, out of their neighborhoods. It means perchance an actual civil war within the Holy Land itself.
Major angst has settled in upon a people who live with tragedy, blood flow, and injustices every day of their lives. Now it’s gone far over the charts. That’s why Sharansky can’t morally stay on board with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet. So he resigned, as reported from Jerusalem by Larry James of VOA, dated May 2, 2005.
"Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky has resigned, saying Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements is a tragic mistake that will encourage more Palestinian violence and serve to divide Israeli society."
Israel, in the Six Day War of 1967, won the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, all of Jerusalem, the West Bank and Egypt Sinai. Why then should Israel turn over any of that geography to the Palestinian Authority that has absolutely no history for stable peace making?
The Muslims have continued to enhance murderers global. They have fed the killing machine night and day. Words words words and more words have flowed from the opportunistic political so-called leadership under the PA banner, but the younger generation continues to be indoctrinated that all Jews are "pigs." All Jews must be obliterated, starting with those inhabiting Israel.
With no actual change in any of that Muslim tirade, Sharansky concludes he can’t be a part of the Jewish onslaught now scheduled against his own people in the Gaze community. It just can’t happen; not on his watch.
I admire him so very much. He should be lauded throughout his country for his noble testimony to what is right.
"Mr. Sharansky delivered his letter of resignation to Mr. Sharon Monday morning. In it, he laid out the reasons for his action. He says the Gaza withdrawal plan will only weaken the chances for a true peace with the Palestinians and says it will create a serious threat to Israeli society. In his words, ‘We are standing before a terrible rift in the nation and, to my regret, I sense no effort by the government to prevent it.’"
It is fact. Sharon himself spoke to American reporters when visiting US President George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas. In his remarks, Sharon stated to the press that "civil war" could come to his homeland. That comes from the PM’s lips. It’s not a fabricated fear. It’s daily possible horrible.
"Natan Sharansky has been a frequent critic of Sharon policy which, he has said, has been one of giving too many concessions, while getting little in return.
"Natan Sharansky is the author of the influential book ‘The Case for Democracy,’ which President Bush has said articulates his belief in the need to spread democracy around the world.
"Before immigrating to Israel in the mid-1980's Natan, then known as Anatoly, Sharansky was one of the best-known dissidents and political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He was jailed in 1977, charged with spying for the United States, and spent 10 years in Soviet prisons, until international pressure led the Soviets to release him, strip him of his Soviet citizenship and deport him to Israel."
From his bio, it does appear as if the resigned cabinet minister surely does have experience from which to draw his present wisdom. It’s sad that he goes while the Disengagement continues.
It’s all so absolutely unfair.
For more: http://conservativeposts.us/ <http://conservativeposts.us/>
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