Sharon’s Tango Mortale

[DuctapeFatwa]

..Sharon’s actions and its implications ever since the Likud came in power. For instance, one should bear in mind that the Hizballa was formed as a direct result of the occupation of Lebanon by Israel in June 1982. It did not exist before.
Sharon led Israel into Lebanon by fabricating lies, which were then transmitted to Prime Minister Begin and his government. Eighteen years after the Kahan Investigative Committee stipulated that Sharon could no longer serve as Defense Minister due to his responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, he was elected to Prime Minister. Eighteen years is also the time it took the IDF to narrowly escape the Lebanese quagmire, after hundreds of needless casualties. A large, celebrated and well-equipped army seemed to be overtaken by the Hizballa, a small zealous organization that has managed to force IDF out of Lebanon...

The Hamas and Islamic Jihad did not exist prior to the Likud’s ascent to power in 1977. The explicit policy of allowing and encouraging the activity of Islamic organizations (initially perceived as having a strictly communal and social nature) stemmed from the conception that Arafat and his national secular organizations, the Fatah and the PLO, must be weakened...Sharon also established a body of Palestinian collaborators with the Israeli occupation, called The Village Societies and headed by Mustafa Dodin, and armed them for the purpose of confronting PLO activists..

His war on the Hamas is nothing but a war against Fatah and the pragmatic groups who in 1993 dared to enter a negotiation process with Israeli pragmatists to reach a historic compromise...The campaign against Arafat and the pragmatic forces entails encouraging the Hamas and turning it into the dominant body among the Palestinians. I wish to emphasize here: This is not an inadvertent mistake by Sharon; it is the conception, over which we shall weep for generations to come.

Sharon envisages only an all-out war against the Palestinians and their total submission. The moderate position of secular Palestinian circles thus creates a problem for him, because it exposes his extremist positions. That is why he must cunningly eliminate them politically..This must be clear: the exterminations were not meant to hurt Hamas but Abu Mazen, Arafat and the pragmatist elements in the Palestinian Authority and PLO. The exterminations only enhance the power of Hamas, and the astute Sharon knows this very well...

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GRI309B.html

[bemildred]

1. Sharon is an idiot.

He reminds me of Milosevic more than anyone.
Maybe also some to the right-wing retards that ran South
Africa before it got a clue.

[Violet_Crumble]

2. Just curious...

But how does he remind you of Milosevic? Is it to do with how they both showed a lack of diplomacy, incredible arrogance, and tended to ignore warnings and criticism?

Did you ever read any of Milosovich's tirades against the "false tribunal" when he was being prosecuted? Some of that shit was so funny. And all the arrogance in the world didn't help him when the judge finally got sick of him and turned his microphone off :)

Violet...

[bemildred]

3. He is destroying his country in the name of nationalism.

Slobo started out as leader of Yugoslavia, and bit by bit
it disintegrated under him due to his policies. The comparison
doesn't bear being pushed too far.

Of course being ignorant, arrogant, bigoted, fixated, dishonest
etc. etc. works too.

[Darranar]

4. But, of course...

one is a "man of peace", and the other gets targeted by US bombs.

If you want a "double standard," just look at US foreign policy.

[bemildred]

5. US Foreign Policy has never been constrained

by petty little concerns about consistency. If it
gets you elected or lines the pockets of you and
your friends, that's consistent enough.