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Others propose a general withdrawal from the disappearing wetlands and refortification behind more easily defensible lines, like Israeli settlers withdrawing from the Gaza Strip. There are simply too many precarious outposts to build walls around them all, they say. Better to build one huge hurricane levee across southern Louisiana and leave those who choose to stay outside the floodgates to look after themselves...
...priorities: cutting taxes for the rich instead of shoring up infrastructure and maximizing corporate profits at the expense of the environment. A nation that abandons its poorest, weakest citizens to the vagaries of a glorified free market shouldn't call itself civilized. Betsy Rim Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Sharon's Gaza Gambit Your verbatim item quoted a statement by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Ariel Sharon's leadership [Sept. 12]: " Sharon gave and gave and gave some more, and the Palestinians got more and more and more. And what did we get in return? The answer is: nothing, nothing...
...Netanyahu miscalculated the mood in the party and its willingness to follow him - in all likelihood - out of government. Even with a weekend of violence from Gaza, Netanyahu still couldn't carry the day. Sharon's consistent argument has been that the old dreams of a Greater Israel - the original fire that molded the Likud - were impossible in the current political and diplomatic reality. Netanyahu had banked on being able to stir up the rowdiest nationalist elements in his party. But either he went too far, or he was successfully cast as having gone too far by his enemies...
...accusations of hurting the Palestinian people. That also afforded an excuse to hit Israel. Hamas pulled back after a few days and ordered its men to once again observe the truce, however, because it didn't want to be blamed by ordinary Palestinians for drawing the Israelis back into Gaza. On the streets of Gaza, there's a palpable air of celebration - with an undertone of aggression - and to spoil that would hurt Hamas's standing...
...Israel's response was predictable. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon doesn't want to be drawn back into Gaza so soon after his withdrawal. But he promised many times that any trouble across the fence would meet with a stern response. It wasn't hard for Israel to carry out its "targeted killings" of senior militants over the weekend. After all, the military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have spent years under cover, haven taken to the streets of Gaza since the Israelis left, making inviting targets...