Last I looked (2:53am PST 1/07/06) PM Sharon is still alive and resting after successful brain surgery. I, along with all Palestine wish PM Sharon God speed for a full recovery and taking back power.

Get your facts straight. Why is it so hard to find journalists that actually research a story before spouting off?

It took the rabidly anti-Communist Nixon to do what no Democrat would ever have been allowed to do, to go to and establish rapprochement with China. And it took the war-criminal Sharon to do what no Labor leader would ever have been permitted -- to get the Israeli settlers to leave Gaza.

Are we doomed to forever having the worst among us be the only ones with the political credibility to be able to do what is right and necessary? Why is that?

Here is what might be a helpful idea. What if

Israel were to de-link Settlements and Occupation

by..dismantling and depopulating each and every

Settlement and closing each and every one of its

waterwells in the West Bank?

Then the Occupation could be downgraded to a

temporary security occupation with no sign that

Israel wanted any more material wealth or presence

in the West Bank. Then the Palestinians would

have a serious reason to believe that Israel was

prepared to de-occupy the West Bank if Palestine

was prepared to leave Israel Proper rigidly and

strictly alone.

Where does a Third pair of hands come in?

What if America were to freeze its aid to Israel

in mid-pipline till America was satisfied that

every Settlement and Settler had been removed,

and every Settler waterwell shut down? When that

condition had been verifiably inspectably met,

the aid could be unfrozen. The resulting low-grade temporary security occupation would end when

Israel and Palestine achieved final treaty peace.

01-06-06 @9:03PM

If Senor Sharon survives much longer in the flesh he will never be in the position of power he once had yet

it also seems like God's perfect timing.

Sharon helped lead Israel, mis-led Israel and then ended up providing leadership for Israel to live in relative peace and security in recognition of the Palestinian people's right to independence within their own state, as the Jewish people have.

It reminds me of two dogs fighting over the same bone and if peaceful co-existence can ever happen then it must happen between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.

There are interestng parallels between Sharon and Arafat. If there is an afterlife, they may be able to swap war stories soon!

We are all upon the same Mother Earth, there is no replacement and we should all endlessly seek ways to live together in true social peace or we will end up killing each other off!

Humanely Yours ~

Peter S. Lopez

Sacramento, California

http://humane-rights-agenda.blogspot.com/

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Was "passing" really the best word to use in the headline of this story? As of this writing, the man is not actually dead; the headline made me think I'd missed something.