Pat Buchanan: Have the Guts to Stand Up to Ariel Sharon, Mr. President !

Israel is a “thunderously failed reality” that “rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice.”

Were these words spoken by an American leader, he would be denounced as an anti-Semite.

But these are the words of a former speaker of the Israeli Knesset who cries for his country.

“The countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun,” writes Avraham Burg, “the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep.”

“Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism.”

Ayalon and Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibeh have issued a declaration of principles calling for Israel’s withdrawal to her 1967 borders. Ex-Justice minister Yossi Beilin has negotiated a detailed accord with a former Palestinian minister. Colin Powell wrote a letter of support.

Where is George W. Bush? Why is he silent when Sharon has led us into a cul-de-sac from which he cannot find an exit? Why is our president letting Sharon ravage what is left of our reputation in the Arab world?

If Mr. Burg can stand up to Sharon, why cannot Mr. Bush?

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