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Emanuel A. Winston , Middle East analyst and commentator, writes extensively about geo-politics and war, often forecasting coming events in the region of the Middle East, including the relations between Washington and Jerusalem.
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By Emanuel A. Winston
February 27, 2005
Officers and soldiers who believe in a democratic nation as it once was, should consider crossing over. By that I mean resigning their positions and crossing over to physically join the pioneering settlers if by doing nothing more than to stand with them on the road.
The settlers represent the deepest core values of what is called: Zionism, namely, to return to the Land; make it fruitful and raise children who respect their parents, teachers and even the government when it deserves respect.
Regrettably, the soldiers who have died for the Land have been dismissed as unimportant by the present government as men who have sacrificed their lives for no good reason. The highest ranking officers, with the foot soldiers have come to recognize that Sharon's idea of "Disengagement" is nothing more than another version of the failed Oslo Accords which also were the ideas of Rabin, Peres and Beilin.
Now Sharon has ignored whatever degree of peace was already bought and paid for through the many dead who sacrificed themselves for whatever protection they could give the Israeli people and their families. Sharon has been advised by his highest military leaders in Israel's Army that he is making a vital, existential mistake in opening the city gates to an implacable Muslim enemy whose religious mandate is to remove Israel from the face of this planet.
Sharon has had similar advice by the Director of Shabak, the Intelligence Service to cease the "Disengagement". Follow-on Intelligence speaks of a growing number of terrorist attacks between now and the effort to force Israel out of Gaza and the blooming Gush Katif.
Intelligence indicates that the attacks will ramp up during the evacuation to demonstrate that the Israeli retreat is being conducted under fire. This will couple with the knowledge that former PM Ehud Barak and Israeli forces were driven out of Lebanon under fire by Hezbollah terrorist attacks. When Barak's midnight desertion under fire out of the Lebanese security zone became known to Arafat's terrorists, they knew that Israel's politicians didn't have the staying power. Now Sharon will further cement that perception as he, the "great" warrior, can be made to run -- like Barak.
For Israel's Defence Forces, they know that Sharon's retreat will heat up the entire border so that all the areas of Israel will come under increased fire so that the next Jewish leader will easily give up Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley, the Golan Heights and that part of Jerusalem that Jordan occupied for 19 years between 1948 and 1967.
The Arab Muslim terrorists supported by Syria and Iran will know for an absolute certainty that Jews, Jewish soldiers, Jewish politicians can be made to run under fire.
The simple fact is that Sharon and his collaborators must be run out of office and, if possible, charged with treason against the Jewish State. However, in the interim, the Israeli Army should be encouraged to cross over to protect the Jews of Gaza/Gush Katif because that must hold firm in order to keep the rest of the Jewish State in strength and faith.
Soldiers! Police! Resign your posts and be hailed as heroes of the Jewish nation under a new government. The officers and men of Israel's Army must be reminded that one day in the future, they will have to stand before a Court of Comrades long dead and to explain why they abandoned the Jews of Israel and merely obeyed orders they knew to be dangerously wrong.
Cross over and stand with both the pioneering settlers and many of your comrades-in-arms who already refuse to drag Jews out of their homes!
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