It’s just that Hamastan (and kudos to Mr Netanyahu on that piece of copywriting) proves the exact opposite of what is said by the "Know It Alls." Hamastan would have evolved eventually. Hamas didn’t win the elections because of the disengagement. It was the result of deeper, longer processes, horrible and painful on their side, a large portion of which has been reaction to our always politically correct settlement movement.Only in Israel could someone describe life as 'almost normal.'
Yes it is terrifying that we have a Hamas state on our southern border but just imagine that 7,500 Israeli citizens were still there, with children needing to travel to school each day, Imagine their vulnerable expansive communities and the three military divisions deployed there to protect them and all the solitary pillboxes erected in the area and the long corridors that are used for security, the hitchhiking stations on the main roads, the synagogues, the cars, everything.
And that is – if you’ll forgive me – exactly what we said then. We have to distance ourselves from the Palestinians, to shut them off, to separate from their impeccable talent for doing the wrong thing. The disengagement – even with its failures and hardships – was the only thing that has allowed us now to carry on almost normally within an insane situation.
But what he writes about the "Know It Alls" is true--read the whole thing.
[Hat tip: An Unsealed Room]
Technorati Tag: Israel and Disengagement and Yair Lapid.
Lapid resorts to "leitzanut" instead of dealing with the issues. The Messilat Yesharim taught us that leitzanut is like a shield lubricated with oil. Any attempt to rebuke such people or to confront them with facts will be repelled like arrows striking the lubricated shield.
ReplyDeleteThe results of the "disengagement" have been a disaster on many different levels. Gen. Yaalon warned that this would be a backwind for terror, and he was right. Arms flow freely from Egypt into the Gaza Strip. The front has moved from Gush Katif to Sderot and Ashkelon. Lapid's theory that the Hamas would have came to power even without the "disengagement" is nothing more than an unproven theory, which he arrogantly states as fact.
Lapid is a master of deception, accusing others of being haughty while being the height of hautiness himself. I'm not impressed.
I posted this because I was taken aback by it. It just struck me as odd that someone could come out and defend the Disengagement like that--while claiming that Israelis were now living "almost normally."
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