Full Speed Ahead to a Unilateral Forced Peace
December 21, 2005
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
It has been my claim consistently that the Prime Ministers of Fatah in Israel, from Arafat to Abbas have never, and shall never, be able to control terrorism in Israel.
That has always been the viewpoint of most of the conservative leaders in Israel, and it is the main reason they first decided to build a security barrier/wall/fence around the Gaza Strip and West Bank which, when completed in 2007, will confine the terrorists behind a well-patrolled 420 mile length with heavily monitored check-point entrances, which will finally give the nation the feeling of “peace and safety” it has so long sought after. The Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al Aksa Martyrs Brigades are the terrorist groups that have gained the hearts of the Palestinian people because of unbelievable corruption in the history of the long Fatah administration.
Also, in the real heart of hearts of the Palestinian people there is a true deep seated Islamic wish to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. If Ariel Sharon stays healthy, and it appears he will, you will see his new Kadima (Forward) party as the next government after the 2006 March elections.
However, it does not matter which party gets in office, because the wall will be finished and the terrorists forcible confined inside it.
Any attempts, after they are forced behind it, to launch rockets over in into Israel proper, will be met with IAF and artillery barrages that will look like a Sunday school picnic compared to what has been carried out up to this time. Terrorist groups understand that kind of force.
It is somewhat ironic that all the terrorists groups loudly proclaim, with great certainty, that “all that Israel understands is force.” After having watched the persecuted Israelis from my childhood, I would say that is a lie. But I would say, “Israelis have never known anything but great force prejudicially exercised against them as a people and as a nation.” The irony of what terrorists say about Israel is this – I can truly say, after having been in contact with many Arabs over the years, “all they understand is force.” Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, and all the other conservative and moderate leaders in Israel understand the truth of that statement.
The following article, by Akiva Eldar from Haartz, I believe to be a straight forward analysis of the non-partner situation in Israel.
BEGIN HAARETZ ARTICLE
Kadima to a New Middle East
December 19, 2005
By Akiva Eldar
The local elections in the territories resolved a dilemma for many undecided voters on the left (at least three seats’ worth, according to internal party surveys) – whether to vote for Ariel Sharon of the “there is no partner” party, or Yossi Beilin of the Geneva Initiative. Hamas’s sweeping victory proved that Sharon was right: There is no one to talk to.
The Palestinians are turning their backs on Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and in his place, they are crowning a gang of fanatics who promise a war of annihilation against the Jewish state. That is also how they are rewarding those who gave them the gift of the Gaza Strip without even asking anything in exchange. Enough of the peace camp’s illusions, enough of the right’s lack of progress, Kadima (“onward”) to a unilateral solution.
It seems reasonable, does it not? But it depends on where you start – from the cause or from the effect: Is Abbas not a partner because he is weak, or is he weak because Sharon decided that he is not a
partner? Would Hamas have attained a similar degree of popularity if Sharon had invited Abbas to resume diplomatic negotiations
? What would the results of the elections have been if Sharon had given Abbas the keys to the Gaza Strip, opened a safe passage to the West Bank for him and enabled his policemen to obtain ammunition
?
Granted, the Palestinian Authority is not innocent of either corruption or sins of omission. But in practice, who really controls the territories that are falling like ripe fruit into the hands of Islamic fanatics? Who, more than anyone else, determines the fate of their inhabitants and drives the desperate into dark corners?
Hamas’s Internet sites do not hide the organization-come-party’s satisfaction with Sharon’s policy. They praised him for ousting the charismatic Yasser Arafat from the political arena and highlight every quote from the prime minister declaring that Abbas is not a partner.
Hamas’s publicists write explicitly that the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza attests that Israel understands only force.
They are hoping for other such withdrawals, which will nurture the security lull and enable them to further cement their support among the desperate.
Hamas’s elec toral vic
tory could also help Sharon to shrug off diplomatic pressure – because with Hamas, it is not necessary to discuss territorial compromise, a division of Jerusalem and a reasonable solution to the refugee problem.
There is no danger that the leaders of that organization will be invited to the White House, or even to European capitals. In short, in comparison to Hamas, the Palestine Liberation Organization is a “nonpartner lite.”
END HAARETZ ARTICLE
Many expositors seem certain that the prophesied tribulation period is in the distant future. I do not!
I believe the stage is now being set for it to begin at some point in time between 2007 and 2012.