Futilities of Futilities

Futility of futilities! All is futile! -- King Solomon, the book of Koheles (Ecclesiastes)

I never thought I'd ever see the day that Israel would stand down in the face of terror. After 5 attempts, I simply could not put in to words the anger, frustration, fear and sadness I feel about the Gaza disengagement.

Why do I feel this way?

I'm angry because I believe that Jewish people have a right to live wherever they damn well please. I'm angry because if there is a cancer in your midst, you destroy it and not run from it. I'm angry because never before in the history of the world has a nation been pressured to give back land it won in a defensive war. And I'm angry that Ariel Sharon went against his own party by breaking the one promise that got him elected in the first place - and the promise to all who believed him when he strongly supported the settler movement.

I'm frustrated because I don't want Israel to fight itself. Regardless what the anti-Semites say (including you, Cindy Sheehan), there is no "Jewish cabal" who's goal is world domination. Israeli's simply want to live in peace with her neighbors. I'm frustrated that after all the rhetoric by the nations of the world about the horrible deeds done to the Jews in WWII, anti-Semitism is once again in vogue worldwide. Once again, the world blames the Jew for all that's evil.

I fear because the disengagement is viewed in the Arab world as the first real victory for the Islamofacists. Whether Sharon truly felt it was best to cut and run or stay and fight, it is being hailed as the first step toward the Arab goal of Israel's demise. What was said in 1994 still holds true today: That what the Arab nations could never win war will be handed them on a silver platter.

I'm sad because I am beginning to believe that Israel is slowly destroying herself. Weakened by the UN and the "Quartet", battered by terrorism and stabbed in the back by the political left - both in Israel and in America -I am beginning to sense that the only true democracy in the Middle East is losing her will to survive.

If, G-d forbid, that happens, then no matter what the rest of the world believes, the terrorists will have won.