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 peace.
Yet, the world is far for being perfect. Utopia is still a utopia.
Upon delving further into Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal, the plan, like what was said in the NYT dead-tree edition last Friday, 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.
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.
Seriously, Sharon discussed the plan, of all persons, with himself. A joke?
No. Sharon was explicitly quoted saying, “I discussed this between me and myself and came up with a new initiative”.
Puzzled? Me too.
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.
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.
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. :)