Tel-Chai Nation

As WorldNetDaily reported, 100,000 Israelis attended the protest against the disengagement lunacy.

Ariel Sharon would be strongly advised to pay attention to that, because withdrawal or not, his problems, both in the government and with the public are not over. In fact, they're just beginning.

It's not just the Israeli public that's against it. As the Jerusalem Post reported recently, 63 percent of Americans oppose a pullout, as shown in a poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates:

By 50% to 28%, Americans believe that "this Gaza plan sends a message that Arab terrorism is being rewarded."

Other findings showed that 63% of Americans believe "Jerusalem should remain under Israeli sovereignty – not Palestinian sovereignty," in comparison to only 5% who did not agree.

Also, 80% said they opposed "the continuation of $350 million in US aid to Palestinian Arabs."

By 61% to 28%, Americans believe that "if Hamas members are elected or appointed to official positions in the Palestinian Arab government, US officials should not meet or negotiate with them."

So it's not just the Israeli public Sharon would be alienating, but also the American one as well.

Not only that, but, as Israel National News reported recently, his attempt to obtain US aid for expulsion may also backfire. As told in here:

Sharon's plan to use American aid to develop the Galilee and Negev to attract Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria faces opposition in the U.S., which may insist the money be used for Arabs.

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The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is trying to drum up support in Congress for the aid package, but the Victims of Arab Terror International organization has launched a campaign against it. It plans to purchase newspapers ads encouraging Americans not to allow their tax dollars to be used as ‘blood money’ for the expulsion plan "which rewards Arab terrorists for their continuous murderous atrocities.”

You can be quite sure that there are more than enough American citizens out there who would not want their money going into the hands of murderers.

And, on a related note...

As the reporters Raviv Drucker and Ofir Shelach assert, Sharon has been going through with all this in hopes of trying to keep his son Omri from being indicted in the Greek Island scandal. However, it appears that even that is starting to backfire on him, as YNetnews reports that now, the AG is running an election fraud hearing for Omri Sharon. As told in this report:

"The indictment upon which Mazuz will decide includes accepting illegal campaign money, receiving money exceeding legal amounts, and mismanagement of accounting books. Sharon is also accused of filing false documents, breach of trust, fraud, conspiracy to commit a crime, and lying under oath."

Chances now are that the younger Sharon will also be jailed pending investigation.

At the same time, it should be noted that, as some analysts argue, Sharon may be doing it all in order to please George Bush, or to keep a commitment made to Bush during the Defensive Shield operation in March/April 2002, in return for Bush stopping his strenuous opposition to Israel's defensive military actions at that time.

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