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Peace Process

Was it worth it?


By Ryan Jones
September 15, 2005

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was the talk of the ball at this week's World Summit in New York marking the United Nations' 60th anniversary.

World leaders from every corner of the globe lined up to meet with the once ostracized Israeli. Even the heads of Muslim nations openly hostile to the Jewish state couldn't wait for their ?chance? encounter with ?the disengager.?

In payment for that very out-of-the-ordinary privilege, nearly 10,000 Jews who had sacrificed so much in obedience to the Almighty's command to settle the land were ripped from their homes.

As callous as it may sound, the back-slapping going on at the UN is precisely one of the reasons Sharon insisted the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria had to go. It is all part of the ?unprecedented? diplomatic rewards he claims Jerusalem won by quitting those areas.

Quite accurately did prime ministerial candidate Binyamin Netanyahu point out that Sharon had ?traded territories for red carpets.?

But can anyone honestly believe these amicable feelings towards Israel will last much past Sharon's stay in New York?

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin Wednesday noted in response to the spectacle at the UN that ?the world always loves Israeli leaders when they fold up in the face of international pressure.?

What happens if Israel does not follow up its ?disengagement? with further concessions? And having set the bar so high with Gaza and northern Samaria, it is doubtful a mere removal of several ?illegal? outposts is going to satisfy the world's appetite.

Rather than lasting international acceptance, Israel has been placed on a path of accelerated dismemberment.

Having read the end of ?The Book,? it is clear Israel's full dismemberment will not be allowed. The discontinuation of adequate concessions is certain to elicit as-yet-unseen international pressure and even fury.

Unprecedented blessing does await this nation, but Israel will not find it at the hands of a godless world.

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