Sharon is ready to pound Palestinians the way Bush whipped Saddam

The Pentagon has dropped its scheme to create a stock market for investors who want to trade in international disasters. Too bad. I was planning to make a bundle on Palestinian futures. Naturally, I intended to sell short. You can't go wrong betting on the Palestinian genius for self-inflicted disaster.

Last week, on a visit to Jerusalem, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, described the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians as "paper-thin." That overestimates the durability of paper. All signs point to an outbreak of fighting by the end of the summer.

The Palestinians lost the last intifadeh, which is why they asked for a ceasefire. And they will lose the next. The difference is, this time it will be Israel's intifadeh. And America won't be there to stop it. In fact, the United States will be rooting Israel on.

The Palestinians were warned about this when Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House last month. Abbas came with complaints: the security fence (Abbas calls it a wall) Israel is building across the West Bank, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's refusal to open the prison gates and release thousands of inmates and the general difficulties of life under occupation.

President Bush was polite. He agreed that the fence might be a problem, although he didn't sound as if he cared much - an impression confirmed during Sharon's subsequent visit to Washington. On the other hand, Bush was unsympathetic on the subject of releasing terrorists and downright hostile to the Palestinian claim that under the terms of the road map, they are obligated to nothing more than a ceasefire.

In the road map, the Palestinians agreed to make "visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere." In other words, Abbas and his colleagues have promised to take on Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the rest of the armed terrorist groups.

Obviously, the Palestinians knew this when they signed up for the road map. What they didn't know is that Bush would hold them to it. As the late Udai Hussein observed, in a related context, Bush isn't like Bill Clinton. The president is deadly serious about fighting terrorism, including Palestinian terrorism. And so is Sharon (you could say he isn't Ehud Barak). . .

My personal opinion is that a Palistinian civil war would NOT remain confined to today's Palistinian areas.

Jordan, formerly known as Trans-Jordan within the past 50 some years, with a 60% Palistinian population, along with parts of Syria and Lebanon, would surely become involved. All were part of "Old Palestine". Why are THEY not forced give some land BACK for peace? They have plenty of space to help build a Palistinian state! Why is only Israel to give up land? Only because they are Jews, is why.

And who all else would become involved? The Mullahs of Iran are all for WAR too! Who else? Lybia? And the Saudi government might fall when the weaknesses of their military become apparent. Oil supplies interrupted, no telling what kind of chaos this would lead us all into.

There is just NO TELLING where this would end. Basically, this seems to be just about the last major unanswered dispute of World War II. So, the most destructive war in all recorded history has to be revived and continued, killing many more people, in order to settle this petty quibbling among small nations?

Japan dealt with it, China dealt with it, Russia dealt with it, Germany dealt with it, along with many others, and now most consider World War II to be all very ancient history. For classroom educational purposes only. But the Palistinians just can't seem to build a new life. Only moan and bewail what their Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers lost over 50 years ago. Hell, my ancestors lost a hell of a lot in Russia in 1880 through 1917. We don't give two hoots in Sheol about that now - life is good for us now! There is only one minor regret about that now: The USSR communists remodeled our church for a shool and cleared out our graveyard for a playground. Oh well. In the life to come, that will make no difference to us.

It seems to me, however, that after the dust settles, Israel would be MUCH larger and safer, and many other countries would have their borders in much differnt locations. And, the world will have a much higher respect for Israel. Of course, it might take years and massive casualties for this to happen.

See Isiah Ch. 17 verse 1: An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

And also, from the Torah, Joshua Ch. 2 verse 10:
And Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Per'izzites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, and the Jeb'usites.

Is a Palistinian State really worth all this?

Actually though, the Palistinians are just pawns in a much larger game. There is plenty of room and money for them in the other 20 some Islamic states. But, bound by a common hatred of all other religions, especially Jewish, the dislike most Arabs have for the Palistinians (known as the "Jews" of the Arab peoples), and the religious duty of Islamics to build their "holy places" on TOP of other religion's "holy places", there is just gonna be trouble for the lifetime of everyone now living, unless The Messiah hurries up and gets here soon!

IMHO Sharon ought to denounce Arafaggot using taped conversations that include "by accident" his talks with his homosexual-terrorist contacts. This may cause Arafat to lose face with his Muslim brothers. Then announce Arafat is persona non grata and is being deported. Then announce this is the last chance for Abbas and the Palis to move strongly against terror. Of course, Abbas will do nothing because he has no real authority.

France, Germany, Russia and the EU will go stark raving crazy. Let them rail and shake and go bonkers. They cannot do much about it except debate in the U.N.

Give them a deadline to meet. Draw a line in the sand. When the Palis miss the deadline -- all bets are off. Palis are raving maniacs. Their children are raving maniacs. Let then sacrifice their children with bomb belts. Blow themselves up behind the wall.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.