Ariel Sharon Quotes
I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be no Jews in Gaza.
Sharon, Ariel. Interview by Yoel Marcus. Haaretz, 2 Feb. 2004.
This statement hardened the Israeli population away from anything that would bring Hamas more power. The PLO leader had, for ALL the Palestinian people, recognized the right of Israel to exist {633062}. Now Hamas was not only reneging on the Arafat declaration, but also would not even use the term “Israel” and instead calls the nation which in less time than the Palestinians have had, has developed a modern, industrial, democratic state far in advance of the Palestinians or any of the Arab nations for that matter. Yet it is relegated to a “project” with the great hope of having it come to an end—the destruction of Israel. The Israelis observe that this is a de facto declaration of war, and hence treat Gaza and Hamas as an enemy force to be reckoned with. See {635338} for another alarming reneging of the recognition of Israel.
Ethnic cleansing was a basic component of early Islam. The contemporary seeming hysteria over American troops in Arab nations, has in addition to the usual problems of soldiers from another land this background. The same is true about the presence of Israel. From some points of view, the presence of Christians and Jew in the Middle East is wrong per se because it undermines the work and intention of the Prophet.
He arrived in 1527, 7 years before De Soto and in a 6,000 mile ordeal, was the first white to cross the explore the interior of the continent. He was describing the Spanish slavers behavior with respect to the Indians of the New World.
The report was on the Turkish brutality in Post WW I Smyrna against the Greek population. Several hundred thousand Greeks were killed. This was after the Armenian Genocide during WWI. The irony was that America, England and France all agreed that Turkey should administer the Turkish port city of Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Anatolia which was inhabited by a substantial Greek Orthodox Christian population in Muslim Turkey. In addition to the problem of a religious minority, the Turks had then, and many still have today, a desire for revenge against the Greeks. Greece had been a province of the Turkish Ottoman Empire for centuries until the Greek revolt of 1821. Ethnic Greeks living in Turkey, with an equally paranoidal preoccupation in history did not make very good citizens of Turkey.
Ariel Sharon was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
