To: SilentZ who wrote (165673 ) 3/26/2003 12:35:16 AM From: tejek Respond to Sharon is an expansionist, at least into the territories Israel currently holds, but he's not a right-wing fanatic who thinks that since all of the biblical holy places are in the West Bank, Israel has to have them. He's a secular dude. He's just a career soldier who thinks of security, and his views are shortsighted. If there were a real solution where Israel could give back the West Bank and Gaza, I think he'd do it. It'd probably require American troops in as a buffer, and we don't want to put them there. However, what I find over the top is that Sharon is building a wall around all of Palestine......I think in an effort to mimic the Great Wall of China. At first it was to be just a wall between Palestine and Israel.....presumably to keep the Palestinians out of Israel. Now however, there is talk that he wants to encircle the entire West Bank and of course, Gaza. Obviously, the situation has reach the insanity level.
