A Miracle of Rare Device (Uri Avnery)

[Violet_Crumble]

A picture engraved in memory: Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. Around him the storm is raging. The Members rush about, shouts ring out from all sides. The Member on the podium waves his arms, denounces and curses him. Sharon sitting at the government table. Alone. Immovable. Massive and passive. No muscle in his face is moving. Not even the nervous tic of his nose, that was once his trade-mark (and that many people considered a kind of lie-detector). A rock in the raging sea.

This is the man who decided alone to withdraw from Gaza and dismantle the settlements. The man who is implementing this practically alone. The man who will stand this coming week facing a hurricane that has no equal in the history of Israel.

A believer in God might say: this is a miracle from heaven. Mysterious are the ways of the Almighty. The patron of the settlements, the man who planned most of them, put them where they are and helped them to strike root and expand - he is the man who is now setting the fateful precedent of dismantling settlements in this country.

The dimensions of the "miracle" can be grasped only by posing some hypothetical questions: What would be happening if the Labor Party were in power, if Shimon Peres were in charge, if Ariel Sharon were leading the opposition and commanding the orange-shirts? The very thought is a nightmare.

If this were the only miracle that is happening to us - that would be plenty. But it is accompanied by a second miracle: the Israeli army is conducting the fight against the settlers. That is a miracle so wondrous that it could make the most secular pork-eater run to his rabbi.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=8511

[pelsar]

1. no miracle....

"But it is accompanied by a second miracle: the Israeli army is conducting the fight against the settlers."

for those of us who are part of the IDF its no miracle the the IDF is doing what the govt tells it to do...for those who believe in the atrocities that are attributed to us..then yes it would seem like a miracle....but its not.