The World Is Watching
The heartbreaking scene of Israeli settlers being removed by, what amounts to their brothers and sisters in the army, provides a living example of the nobility of a democratic society doing what is so difficult, with restraint and intelligence.
Sharon understands the demographic imperative of removing the settlers — he is doing the only thing he can do. The settlers, in angry despair, see their homes and their ancient heritage taken from them, given to people who harassed and killed them. Palestinian society is often sentimentalized by media outlets, even though murder is the option of choice in that society; despite the rage of the settlers, the whole process of removal is being done with deep feeling, and decent human consideration; the one act of terror by an Israeli was immediately labeled as such by the leader of a free society, and condemned — a model that should be emulated and celebrated, and whose absence in Palestinian society should be universally deplored. Take a look at the press given this signal event, initiated and implemented by a society of institutions and laws — is this Israeli act being presented with the affirmation it deserves?
