Just today, the Israeli parliament approved funds for the pullout and compensation of settlers in Gaza.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 16 — Israel’s parliament on Wednesday approved a nearly $1 billion financial package to pay for withdrawing Israeli troops and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, delivering a major victory to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to vacate settlements for the first time in 23 years.
The 59 to 40 vote in Israel’s Knesset followed hours of emotional debate, weeks of street demonstrations by settlers who oppose Sharon’s plan and a growing number of death threats and barbs aimed at Sharon and other leaders who support getting out of Gaza and abandoning four small Jewish settlements in the northernmost reaches of the West Bank.
Some opponents of the pullout have distributed posters labeling Sharon as “Hitler’s partner.” The prime minister, who for years was a chief architect of Israel’s program to establish Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has had to post security guards at his wife’s grave to protect against extremists who have threatened to dig up her remains to protest the exhumation of other Jews’ remains that would become necessary if the Gaza withdrawal takes place.
Ariel Natan Pasko at Israpundit has his take on the pullout:
The “peace at any price” bug has returned to Israel. This cyclical moral-decadence disease has reinvaded the Israeli body politic. Once infected, messianic hallucinations of “peace” begin to confound the victim’s moral compass, leading to confusion, lack of moral clarity, and a suicidal death wish for the “Peace of the Grave.” It also weakens the patient’s resistance to falsehood, distorting the infected person’s ability to distinguish right from wrong, good from bad, and enemy from brother. This moral-AIDS disease is sweeping through Israel again, on a scale not seen since the “peace drug” induced false euphoria of the Oslo days.
We know what that led to, death and destruction. But that was just a trial run organized by the “forces of darkness” testing this bio-terror weapon. This time, with planned expulsions of Jews from their homes, mass arrests, and the limiting of civil liberties in Israel, it’s the real thing.
Helped by their “Uncle Sam,” who wants to make the world “safe for democracy,” i.e. America; infected “peace” mongers in Israel have reared their “ugly heads” again. No price is too high, no pain is too great, and no fantasy is too deformed, to stop the “bulldozer” from leveling Jewish homes. The Gaza Expulsion Plan is on the way, and those not infected with the “Oslo Madness – Part Two” are being considered a menace to public health.
Interesting. There’s more.