The price for peace that Israel is unwilling to pay

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Sharon offered the Palestinians little, but it was too much for the settlers

By Max Hastings
THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Wednesday, May 05, 2004,Page 9

God has been misappropriated for many purposes in many lands over the centuries, but seldom for such a bad cause as that of the Jewish settlers of occupied Gaza and the West Bank.

These extreme rightists have lobbied ferociously for weeks to persuade the ruling Israeli Likud party, in its referendum on Sunday, to reject Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to "disengage" from Gaza, because they value what they consider to be the biblical lands of the Jews more than any chance of peace.

Although Sharon has announced his intentions to seek legislative passage of some form of the plan, rightists in the Knesset also will continue to oppose disengagement, even though the Sharon plan is itself a rightwing prescription for the castration of the Palestinians.

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[keithyboy]

1. Life is about decisions and consequences.

They make the decision, the world lives with the consequences.

[Gimel]

2. No man is an island

Although surely you don't think the consequences are greater for someone in Kentucky or Milan than for Israelis and Palestinians.