Friday, August 19, 2005
Max Boot makes some very interesting points in these comments on the Gaza pullout.
Hamastan? Gaza pullout is worth the risk
The real danger from Gaza may not be to Israel but to the rest of the West. The Israeli army has battled terrorist groups in a way that the Palestinian Authority has neither the power nor, in all likelihood, the desire to do. If, following the Israeli pullout, Gaza becomes another training ground for Islamo-fascist fanatics — a successor to Afghanistan under the Taliban — the resulting terrorists will find the U.S. and Europe much easier targets than Israel, which is the world's most heavily defended state. Irony of ironies, perhaps in a few years enlightened Westerners will rue the day when Israel gave up control of Gaza.
TO be honest, I haven't paid too much attention to the Gaza pullout as it seemed to me that there was always 'something brewing' and the situation was in flux.
As to the pullout of souther Lebanon being a cause of the second intifada, I think that's a bit much IMO; the Palestinians would spark another intifada if Kelly Clarkson had lost on 'American Idol' or IMO for any number of *cough* reasons - all of them inane.
Any perceived weakness on the part of the Israelis can spark another intifada.
Right, nothing will ever ever change the hate coming from the Pals, folks. There seems to be NO sloution short of deporting every damn on of thtem. I wish..