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Is Sharon ‘doing a Nixon’ The bete noir of much of the left, Ariel Sharon, appears to be ‘doing a Nixon’. Just as only Nixon could go to China without a collapse of domestic support, perhaps Sharon can make peace with the PLO, secure Israel’s pre-1967 borders and compromise on the settlements.
He is being branded a traitor by Jewish settlers, a war criminal by pro-Palestinians and a pariah by the usual suspects. So he must be doing something good. He clearly has a difficult task in balancing Israel’s security against peaceful compromise, but with the new strategic reality in the Middle-East, his task might be easier.
Paul Staines
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Please explain how you can make peace when the war will continue no matter what Sharon does.
What we know is that the Arafat goal is all of the land, none of the Jews. Please explain how peace for Arafat and others who think like him is other than a temporary truce. A tactic in the war, not a real move towards peace.
It took 20 years for terror to drive Israel out of Lebanon. The Stupidstinians have only been at it for 2 1/2 years.
In other words their tactic has yet to be given a fair trial.
I have to agree with M.Simon. I think this ‘Road Map to Peace’ is a potemkin effort that will go the same route as the Oslo Accords only rather more quickly.