"The world is shamefully quiescent about the latest atrocity, a dismal chapter in a hair-raising modern-day holocaust where the only thing that is missing is the gas chambers .." What does Ariel Sharon really want from the Palestinians?
What is the end game for the aging former commando officer now holding in his hand the future of both Israelis and Palestinians? In the past weeks the prime minister of Israel has managed to knock down the few remaining signposts of the Oslo peace agreements, and today as his tanks encircle the ramshackle headquarters of his arch enemy, Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah he seems ready to cut free the hair-thin line that connects the two peoples who are destined to share the same piece of land. So again: what is Sharon's end game?
It doesn't take a genius to see what Sharon and his generals are up to. The world is shamefully quiescent about this latest atrocity, a dismal chapter in a hair-raising modern-day holocaust where the only thing that is missing is the gas chambers. Whatever the Palestinians are accused of, there is nothing that justifies their wholesale humiliation and subjugation. Sharon's war is not a means to an end, but an end in itself. He can offer nothing to his people or his victims because in all honesty he has nothing to peddle.