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[quote]Originally posted by tareq abd albari:
<strong>Raoul : f America the super power cannot control or force Sharon out ....who can ?</strong><hr></blockquote>
tareq:
The mere fact that you want to believe that the Israeli government is a puppet regime run by the Americans (or is it the Jews who control our media?) does not make it so. Bush and Rice aren't in charge of the Israeli military and can't order it to pull out, although some diplomatic/economic pressure will eventually force Sharon's hand.
But to what end? What guarantee has Israel had of national security? So far, all I see is a request that they retreat to an indefensible border and hope for the goodwill of those who have never shown any for continued survival. Whether the State of Israel should exist is not a question I will debate at the moment (as I really don't care) but to the extent it does, Sharon and his henchmen do have the right to take steps necessary to maintain that existence. I suspect that they didn't know back in 1947 that the state of Israel was created so that a lot of Jews would leave Europe, the initial supporting nations could withdraw their support of the country, and the Arabs could finish off what Hitler had begun back in the 1930's.
Perhaps what we have here is yet another impasse between to irretractable sides. The Palestinians can demand a pullback before they negotiate; the Israelis, that negotiations begin before they surrender the strategic advantage. Both sides, as always, will be right, and both will be wrong.
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