It’s always entertaining when the Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists offer their thoughts on international politics.
Today’s subheadline was particularly fun:
What will Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon do if his new party wins power?
And for good measure, there are these “probing” questions from the Editorial LiveJournalists:
What is Sharon’s real purpose? Is it to consolidate other settlements? Or is it to start productive, two-sided peace talks that would include the fate of Israel’s settlements on the West Bank?
Talk about completely missing what is going on.
The correct answer is, Sharon is going to do exactly what he’s been saying he will do.
Orrin Judd successfully predicted Sharon’s gambit back in 2003.
The Telegraph spelled it out clearly yesterday:
Sixty years after the state of Israel was created, Ariel Sharon is effectively drawing its final borders, say his advisers, diplomats, friends
