{"id":480,"date":"2004-04-30T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=480"},"modified":"2010-05-08T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:02:08","slug":"the-not-so-independent-sharon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"The not so independent Sharon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Likud vote ‘will not halt Sharon’<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will implement his Gaza pull-out plan whatever the outcome of Sunday’s Likud party referendum, advisers say. <\/p>\n

Sharon aide Lior Horev told Army Radio that he would accept the result, but would also “act in the ways that are open to him to move the plan forward”. <\/p>\n

The prime minister was bound by Likud’s decisions, but was also leader of the whole country, Mr Horev added. <\/p>\n

Every poll published in Friday’s press indicated Likud would reject the plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sharon’s indifference to Likud’s opinion makes it appear as if he’s operating according to someone else’s timetable and since the move would invariably result in more resentment, insecurity, and violence I think it’s obvious who’s pulling his strings.<\/p>\n

Recently there was an interesting letter exchange<\/a> in The Nation<\/i> concerning this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gidon D. Remba, President of Chicago Peace Now, likened “lofty” aspirations of equal rights and one-state solutions to “the socialism of fools”.<\/p>\n

When has Israel been anything if not socialist<\/a>, thanks to its crippling<\/a> dependency upon the economic and military aid it receives<\/a> from the United States? <\/p>\n

The people who want the aid are the same people who want the observers. They are the same policymakers and journalists who want internationalization. They are in fact the same people who until the creation of Israel in May 1948, did not want a state. They fought against independence from Britain; they fought against the need for a Jewish army; they fought against religious or historical ties to Jerusalem. Thus Davar, the Histadrut’s newspaper, was arguing against the need for statehood up until statehood was declared. Ha’aretz fought against Jewish militarism and against independence. The Labor movement fought, literally, those Jews who fought to oust the British from the land of Israel. They fought, literally, Jews who fought against Arabs, They advocated in the pre-state days a policy that will sound familiar to us fifty and sixty years later – Restraint. <\/p>\n

These people have not changed. External circumstances have changed, but the policies have not changed. All the policies advocated by the socialist Zionists before statehood, which had no precedent in the history of the world (all the more so since as socialists and communists they supported revolutions and “fought” imperialism around the world, yet at home, they were counterrevolutionaries and denounced independence-minded freedom fighters, and supported British imperialism). They said then and they are saying now – without using the same words, but by pursuing the identical policies – that: “We are not a nation. We are not a real state. We are still dependent on others. And we want to be dependent on others.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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