The Israeli government is frustrated at loosing so much in the U.S and could not creat any serious hurdles for United states. So back to the real enemy of the U.S the Sharon government is looking to stop all its cooperation with the palestinians to defy the U.S on its road map agreements. New settlement construction, delay in disengagment is all the sign of frustration and anger by Israel.

The main reason to depose Sharon is precisely because he is stopping the IDF from responding to terror onslaughts. While he prepares the "peoples army" to go against their own in an unprecedented display of military preparations, he refuses to allow the IDF to operate against Israel's enemies. In his view there are a certain amount of expendable Jewish deaths that he will "tolerate". In this regard, he is as culpable as the terrorists in any ensuing Jewish deaths.

I hate to talk bad about people, but the arabs are so stupid!! sharon wants to leave gaza; so what do they do? they make it more difficult for him. they should be kissing him instead of shooting soldiers. all they can say is no; no in 48, 56, 67, 73. when will they ever say yes? they have to be the most ignorant people on this earth.

The only failure here comes from the arab side, once again they declared an Islamic cease fire and failed to honor their word, as usual. As for the P.A. they fail to take any action against the terrorists (because they are terrorists themselves) and everything they say about peace is "lip service" in order to extract concessions and then launch the next terrorist campaign.

to reverse causality and blame the Sharon government for the failures of the Palestinians. The Israelis have for decades voted with the US in the UN on every measure, have supported the US in the Middle East when Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other supposed friends of the US abandoned her, they provided the US with security technologies and defense upgrade methods that significantly improved American forces' ability to defend themselves, and we share information we gather about the common threats we face from Islamofacist / Arab-facist terrorist with the US, and we never asked America to fight for us in any of our wars even when it was unclear whether we could turn back the enemy onslaught in 1973. We consider the US a loyal friend, and while we have disagreements, and while we recognize that American interests are not always going to be consistent with Israeli interests and thus we'll need to continue to take our safety in our own hands, Sal has put this in the light of "defiance" and has supplied other deviant interpretations of reality that are simply false. Israel's and America's shared relationship has never been, and likely will never become, one that is predicated on Israel's being born in "original sin". Even though President Bush has supported the idea of a Palestinian state, and even though he's not always consistent in identifying Palestinian recedivism when it reasserts itself, there is no doubt that he does not share Sal's and this like's view that the Road Map is only and solely a means to redress the wrongs the Palestinians and their supporters feel have been foisted on them. It is also a means, which Sal consistently ignores, of ensuring that Israel can live safely within reasonable and secure borders. The frustration that Sal shows in his repeated sideswipes on Israel's government is that he has not, at least not yet, been able to recraft the Road Map as another rewarmed Arab League proposal.

Article states: "IDF Southern Command forces have refrained from offensive activity in recent weeks following agreements with the Palestinian Athority." In other words, Israel's leaders have agreed with the PA terrorist organization that when terrorist attacks are made on Gaza's Jews, THE IDF WILL DO NOTHING. Such agreements ACTIVELY COOPERATE WITH TERRORISM and are profoundly evil. After Gaza, which Jews are to be targeted next for this evil treatment? Will Jews in selected areas within the green line also be targeted? The world lives with the continual reality of the Islamic terrorist goal of destroying Western civilization. After the Six Day War in 1967, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff submitted their report requested by the U.S. government. The report stated that Israel can only be defensible if it retains Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan. The Quartet's demands for an Islamic state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, utterly DESTROYS Israel's defensibility. David Bedein's article, frontpagemag.com June 18 2004, "Arming the Enemy" informs that Clause 5 of the Sharon Plan, calls for "mandating military training of Palestinian Armed Forces. This training to be done in conjunction with the U.S. UK, Jordan and Egypt." This intensely hostile act targeting Jews is despicable and evil. EVERY Palestinian political party is a TERRORIST organization. EVERY single one of the PA's security services IS INVOLVED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL.. The PA's training will improve their techniques ensuring a superior job of terrorism, giving legitimacy and acceptability of terrorism against Jews. In Israel, Jews are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. Western civilization and values are regarded with contempt.