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...eventually make Israel an apartheid state, with a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority. Sharon and Olmert accepted that reality before most others on the right did. "We cannot have Israel without a Jewish majority," Olmert said in 2004, explaining the rationale for Sharon's disengagement policy in Gaza, which Olmert clearly hoped would be "the first step," followed by a West Bank withdrawal to the borders marked by the controversial security fence that Israel is now building...
...rising. The conventional wisdom is that Hamas will finish a strong second to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah party in the election. But Fatah seems in complete disarray, unhinged by corruption and incompetence. Its factions appear to be literally at war with one another. "It's Somalia in Gaza," a prominent Palestinian security official told TIME's Jamil Hamad. "There's a different government on every street corner." The official says he sent Abbas a memo last week begging him to call off the elections for fear of violence so severe that "there will be no wounded people this...
Already Likudniks are saying disengagement in Gaza has caused the chaos and will weaken Israel's security. "We hear reports of an al-Qaeda presence in Gaza now and about high-powered explosives being smuggled in through Egypt," a leading Likud security expert told me. "The question is, How would Sharon have reacted to the deteriorating situation? Would he have moved on and disengaged from the West Bank? I think there is a discussion to be had about what Sharon's real legacy should...
...come up empty. Not so in today's world. Take Pat Robertson, Christian Right pioneer and host of the 700 Club. Last week, within a day of Sharon's massive stroke, the televangelist asserted that it had been God's punishment for leader's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip: "Here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land," said Robertson. "For any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.'" Robertson went on to cite a Biblical prophet, Joel...
...figure as there is in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sharon’s supporters touted him as a war hero, a man who had throughout his military and political career passionately defended Israel’s expansion into disputed territory like the West Bank and Gaza. His critics maligned him as a war criminal, the “Butcher of Beirut” who bore responsibility for numerous atrocities against the Palestinian people and had dedicated his life to repressing their struggle for self-determination. But neither side could have anticipated the final act in the political...