To get elected in Israel you have to be a moderate. Sharon’s popularity has soared since he announced withdrawal plans after seriously lessening terrorist attacks.

To get elected in the Territories you have to appeal to the Pali street which is in its loudest form irredentist today… Until that changes it doesn’t matter how many elections they have.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Asqua and killing Jews will be the tour de force to popularity.

The only things that will change that will be the fence, Gaza withdrawal perhaps and civil war there, and the EU clamping down on the PA…

Since the 3rd will never happen it will likely be 30 years at the earliest instead of sooner… And that’s coming from Benny Morris’s mouth… 30 years that is, when I asked him personally.

Mike

Take your bandana and placard waving elsewhere ‘ I come to this blog to get enlightened but quite frankly mate ‘ you’re standing in my light. Peace off.

“The settlers who make an outcry, threaten violence and desecrate the memory of the holocaust victims are not quiet inhabitants living in their homes. Therefore, their evacuation from the occupied terriotires does not constitute “expulsion” or “ethnic cleansing.” The founders and leaders of the settlement movement, starting with Rabbi Levinger (‘the rabbi with the pistol’) who led settlers to the heart of Hebron immediately in 1967, have come to the occupied territories as invaders, in order to rob from the Palestinian people the remnant of its land, and suffocate the inhabitants of Palestinian towns and villages in narrow enclaves.”