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Jewish World Review
August 18, 2005
/ 18 Av, 5765
Gaza disengagement a one-sided gambit for peace?
By
Bob Tyrrell
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What we are seeing this week in the withdrawal
from Gaza of 8000 Israeli citizens is as noble an act on behalf of peace as
has been recorded in modern history. No peace demonstration on record has
involved so much personal sacrifice. Nor has any peace demonstration
involved so much trust. The trust, for the most part, comes from Jerusalem,
and the Sharon government, believing as it does, that after Israel vacates
Gaza the Palestinian Authority will hold elections, establish a peaceful
government, and control those terrorists intent on destroying Israel. Sharon
is a general of proven prowess. Yet he is now, as the phrase has it, giving
peace a chance. This withdrawal is his plan. So much for the claptrap that
generals only want war.
Yet I am skeptical that this withdrawal will lead to peace. 80
percent of the Palestinian Arabs deny the right of Israel to exist. Most
swallow the historically inaccurate line that the Jews "stole" the lands
they now inhabit and their Gaza settlements too from what are now
called the Palestinians. Scholars, whether they be historians or
archaeologists, have demonstrated that this is hooey. Jews have inhabited
these lands since the time of Abraham. Writers as diverse as H. L. Mencken
and Winston Churchill a century ago when visiting these lands remarked on
the peaceful Jewish villagers cultivating their fields and living civilized
lives. The land of Israel is rightfully the land of the Jews. After World
War II the Jews accepted the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan to live with
Arab indiginae and others in the region in peace. Yet neighboring Arab
states attacked these Jews to rid them from the region, setting off Israel's
War of Independence.
The Arab armies were beaten. Israel was established, and very
cruelly the Arab nations allowed uprooted Palestinian Arabs to collect in
refugee camps where they became angry pawns of the irredentist Arab states
hoping to eliminate Israel. That is the origin of the present hostilities.
Arabs live in Israel with full citizenship. Arabs live too under the
Palestinian Authority outside of Israel and in areas that it is hoped will
become a peaceful Palestinian state. What the Sharon government intends is
that this withdrawal will lead to peace between these two nations.
As I say, it is a noble gesture and one that places great trust
in the Palestinians. Yet there is plenty of evidence that firebrands from
the Islamic Resistance Movement known as Hamas, among others, will be
emboldened by Sharon's generosity to see his withdrawal as a sign of
weakness or worse a sign that Hamas' terrorist violence has caused an
Israeli defeat and could cause still more Israeli defeats. Already the
Washington Post is reporting the head of a Gaza branch of Hamas as saying
that "Without jihad, without attacking the settlements, digging the tunnels,
launching the rockets, the Israelis wouldn't have moved." Thus Sharon's
noble gesture could encourage more violence and legitimatize in the eyes of
Palestinian voters the most militant of Israel's enemies.
If all goes well for now, Gaza will be peacefully resettled and
the Palestinian Authority will govern in harmony with its Israeli neighbors.
Yet elections among the Palestinians lie ahead. On January 21 Hamas will
field candidates against other less violent Palestinian groups, mainly
Fatah, Yasser Arafat's old political organization. What if this withdrawal
by the Israelis actually is seen by the Palestinian electorate as a
vindication of terror and leads to Hamas' victory at the polls? This whole
policy of magnanimity could backfire on Sharon and leave him with a more
dangerous situation than before.
Yet I write as an American, comfortably living thousands of
miles from this vexed part of the world. Whether my skepticism is right or
wrong I shall not have to pay any price. It is the Israelis who pay the
price. For now they support Sharon and withdrawal. Thousands of their
countrymen who settled Gaza out of religious conviction and the sense that
they were fortifying Israeli democracy are now being summarily uprooted and
denied the land in which they invested their hearts and their labor. The
price they pay in beyond simple calculation.
All in all, this is an enormous effort on behalf of peace made
by a noble leader and a noble nation. If it is repaid by continued terror
let the critics of Israel shut down. On behalf of peace this time the
Israelis have done all they can and Sharon's Nobel Prize for Peace should
await him either way.
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