March 28, 2005

The lesson Sharon learned from Hitler?

I'm only posting this to annoy certain people but I did notice that the advice offered to Hitler by General's he ignored might go some way to explaining the so-called disengagement plan.
Hitler's only military experience had been as a corporal during the First World War. He knew only one thing - the fanatischer Widerstand (fanatical resistance), and I can still hear him say the words. Blitzkrieg was not devised by him but by military strategists whom he later sidelined. As soon as we suffered the first setbacks he became deaf to calls to switch to modern, mobile defence techniques. He saw them as defeatist since they sometimes required giving up territory.
Except, of course, in Sharon's case another explanation was offered by one of his closest advisers, Dov Weisglas:
the significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda.
And Sharon himself told Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth that "disengagement" was the continuation of Israel's racist war criminality by other means:
this should be seen as a punishment and not a reward for the Palestinians
said Israel's latest statesman.

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