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Israel Faces Prospect Of Massive Unrest
| I guess things look a lot clearer from my chair than from theirs... |
Israel faces the prospect of massive resistance to the government's plan to expel about 10,000 Jews from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in 2005. Leaders of the estimated 250,000 Jews in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have called for a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the evacuation of the areas. The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, citing U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King and India's Mahatma Ghandi, has urged Israelis to risk imprisonment rather than cooperate with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for a military withdrawal from and expulsion of Israeli residents of the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
| Yeah. No problem. Stay where you are, with your kids surrounded by exploding Paleostinians. Keep the same level of mindless violence going for year after year. Are you sure your yarmulke's tight enough? |
Officials said the campaign against Sharon's expulsion plan could harm Israel's strategic interests.
They said among the non-lethal options that could be taken by withdrawal opponents include the refusal by tens of thousands of reservists to serve in the army, resignation by combatants of elite forces, sabotage of military facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the intimidation of government employees responsible for the withdrawal plan.
| Countermeasures by the gummint, I suppose, would be to just pull the hell out and leave your asses naked, living in Hamas country. |
"The year 2005 is not likely to be an easy year for the people of Israel," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said. "It is likely to create rifts. The biggest challenge is to maintain unity of the people. There is no room for a split. Every Israeli citizen must preserve the rules of democracy."
| I still think that if there ever is a Paleostinian state and peace in the Middle East, Israel's going to become Greece. |
Posted by: Fred 2004-12-22 |
