{"id":333,"date":"2004-04-19T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=333"},"modified":"2006-10-08T06:29:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T06:29:59","slug":"331-of-sharons-unilateral-withdrawal-and-mtb-for-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"[331] Of Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal and MTB for 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Bush unbelievably endorsed Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal plan from some of the occupied territories.<\/p>\n

If one reads merely the surface – of which I did for the first few hours before I actually read up the whole plan a few hours later last week – one would certainly say, wow, that’s an improvement towards peace.
\nYet, the world is far for being perfect. Utopia is still a utopia.<\/p>\n

Upon delving further into Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal, the plan, like what was said in the NYT dead-tree edition last Friday<\/a>, the plan is anything but a sincere unilateral withdrawal. It is more about exchanging partial Israeli withdrawal for part of the lands without the Palestinian consent.<\/p>\n

The best thing is, Sharon negotiated the plan with himself, forcing the Palestinian, the supposed to be the other participant of any Israel-Palestinian – using nowadays cliche – out of the loop.<\/p>\n

Seriously, Sharon discussed the plan, of all persons, with himself. A joke?<\/p>\n

No. Sharon was explicitly quoted saying, “I discussed this between me and myself and came up with a new initiative”.<\/p>\n

Puzzled? Me too.<\/p>\n

Though there might be some truth to Bush’s statement that it is unrealistic for Israel to mobilize a full departure from the occupied lands, it is more unrealistic believe that the Arab and especially the Palestinian would accept Sharon’s proposal.<\/p>\n

It is already hard to convince the Arab and the Muslim as a whole to accept the existence of an Israeli state. To convince them to swallow the possibility that Israel might keep some of the annexed territories will probably be too great a task.<\/p>\n

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Bush is unrealistic. The cool My Teddy Bear for USA!p\/s – Just found out that Ann Arbor plans to hold an Earth Day celebration this Sunday at the historic farmer market. w00t! Also, the Naked Mile, I believe, is this week. Hopes to see some girls. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Bush unbelievably endorsed Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal plan from some of the occupied territories. If one reads merely the surface – of which I did for the first few hours before I actually read up the whole plan a few hours later last week – one would certainly say, wow, that’s an improvement towards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}