OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: Is this the beginning of Transfer?

Ariel Sharon knew that spreading misery' throughout the territories was the only way to deal with the "demographic problem". He said, "You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away. I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave." (Ariel Sharon Aug 24, 1988)

In the minds of Ehud Olmert and the Israeli leadership, the invasion of Gaza is a "positive policy" which will "induce" vast numbers of Palestinians to leave. The humanitarian crisis they are precipitating is not seen as a disaster, but an opportunity. Every Palestinian, who is driven from his homeland by grinding poverty, racism or violence, provides another inch or two of ground for Israel to claim as its own. And, when the unilateral borders are set and Israel owns everything from the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, Olmert will finally realize his dream of "Greater Israel". The rivers of blood that have fed that vision will mean nothing.

Menachem Begin said much the same over 20 years ago when he proclaimed, "The partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized...Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And, forever."

God help us.

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