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Talk and political posturing will do no good in the Mid East - never have, never will.
Either Israel and the West win a decisive victory over the Arab world or they keep on as they are now doing, killing and taking land a bit at a time.
How does giving land to an enemy "enhance security"?
When the settlers are finally gone, and the arabs take Gaza for their own, what then?
The arabs will use it as they use all their lands: as staging points to kill jews. How does this "enhance security?"
Removing these peaceful settlers, who took a previously wasted and barren land (when Palestinians had it it resembled a landfill) and make it bloom, is insane! And, those of you who are liberal Israelis and who believe that Sharon's plan will bring peace to the nation are insane as well ... for Americans who believe the measure is just, I challenge them to immediately give the deeds to their homes to the nearest Native American tribe.
I don't know, maybe it's an incorrect analogy, but when put this way, I can't help feeling haunted by memories of the "peace in our time" Chamberlain-Hitler deal. Just as selling out Czechoslovakia, Austria, and re-militarizing the Rhineland didn't prevent World War II from happening, the spectacle of Jews selling out other Jews probably won't change the minds of the Islamists who have vowed to destroy the state of Israel. I would think that the Israelis, of all people, would understand that appeasement of those who intend to murder you is a losing strategy.