October 2, 2004
ON TO THE THIRD:
Barghouti: Disengagement is victory for Intifada (THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 2, 2004)
Jailed West Bank senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti said in a rare prison interview that Israel's plan for disengagement is "a victory for the Intifada."Speaking to the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Barghouti stated that Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip is, in his words, "the first step of the collapse of an occupation which is on its way to the trash heap of history."
Having won the Second Intifada, against Israel, will matter little unless the Palestinian people win the Third Intifada, against corrupt terrorist government. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 2, 2004 7:38 PM
Disengagement is a tactical manuever by the Israelis. The cost of maintaining a presence in the Gaza was higher than its value, given the handcuffs placed on the Israelis by the Americans.
There would be no need for disengagement if the Israelis were simply to follow my recipe for Gaza.
1. Bomb it with daisy cutters.
2. Napalm every single structure.
3. Send in the armor and the heavy infantry with orders to shoot everything that moves.
4. Bulldoze all remaining structures.
5. Put in topsoil and subdivide the place for Israeli housing.
Wow, Bart, you're quite the humanitarian.
Possibly the experience of European Jews during the 30s and 40s would prevent such actions by Israel, even if common sense didn't.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at October 3, 2004 7:46 PMBart: 37 years too late. You can get away with a lot during the course of a war, but once Israel became the occupiers of Gaza and the West Bank, they were constrained in what they could do.
Posted by: brian at October 4, 2004 1:06 AM