The Broken-Promise Land

Letter to Jerusalem Post:

Vice Prime Minister Olmert says some settlers are stupid to say: “If I pull out of Gush Katif, I will definitely pull out of every part of Jerusalem”. What does he mean by “I”? Does he not know that Sharon is calling the shots around here? And that Sharon has publicly declared time and again that Jerusalem will always remain the eternal and undivided capital of the Jewish Nation? No, it is not the settlers that are stupid. As they face expulsion by the architect of their settlement enterprise, they have come to realise that Sharon is capable of dividing Jerusalem at the stroke of a pen, without so much as a second thought to any previous promises. Olmert has to look no further than his own vice premiership to see how that was divided right under his nose! So, who is looking stupid now?