A Tangled Web

SHARON'S JUDGEMENT IN PIECES....



Following the atrocious murder of Six IDF men in Gaza by Arafat's killers - (and not one UK media headline demanding that Arafat take responsibility and resign) - Steven Plaut hits the nail on the head.



"It has not taken long for Ariel Sharon's pusillanimous "deal" with the

Hizbollah to produce major repercussions and to undermine Israeli national

security in the most serious manner.



You will recall that Sharon ordered the release of some 450 terrorists

from Israeli prison as a "payment" to the Hizbollah to release the corpses

of three Israeli POWs, whom the Hizbollah had murdered in cold blood.



It was predicted in this corner that this would serve as precedent for the

PLO and its affiliates to follow the example of the Hizbollah, and that

Sharon's cowardice would serve as an invitation to other terrorists top

murder Israelis and then hold their bodies as extortion. Sharon's Likud

amen chorus approved the cowardly deal, sighing that there was "just no

choice", the same sigh heard every time Israel does something

astronomically stupid and for which there is not the slightest excuse.



The correctness of that earlier prediction came home with a vengeance

today in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Armored Personnel Carrier was blown

up today when it ran over a large mine placed in the road by Palestinian

terrorists, and then the explosion set off additional explosions from the

ammunition inside the APC. Six Israeli soldiers were literally blown to

pieces. Ah, but then the "pieces" have now become the subject of

Palestinian sport and extortion, thanks to Ariel Sharon's cowardice and

appeasement of the Hizbollah."