Jews Against the Occupation – Sydney
By Gideon Levy Haaretz 27 May 2007
Once again we are being hit by a wave of desire for “a strong man.” From every direction, from the left and right, voices that miss former prime minister Ariel Sharon are being heard, like voices of longing for a father who has departed. “If Sharon were here the war in Lebanon would have ended differently,” and “Sharon would have put an end to the Qassams a long time ago.”
By Robert Fisk The Independent 03 May 2007
So it has come to this. All those bodies, all those photographs of dead children – more than 1,400 cadavers (we are not including the 230 or so Hizbollah fighters and the Israeli soldiers who died) – are to be commemorated with the possible resignation of an Israeli prime minister who knew, and who cared, many Israelis suspect, little about war. Yes, Hizbollah provoked last summer’s folly by capturing two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese-Israel border, but Israel’s response – so totally out of proportion to the sin – produced another debacle for the Israeli army and, presumably now, for its Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.
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