Internal Strife

It appears there is going to be a leadership challenge in Israel, and one wonders that no matter how bad one person maybe it always seems there is someone more extreme, certainly according to some of the rhetoric in the linked article.

I'm sceptical about the current plans to pull out of Gaza and the building of the West Bank wall. However when the alternative is a potential administration against any sort of removal of illegal settlements what hope is there for a peaceful resolution to the trouble in Palestine?

There is some encouragement in that although it seems to be unpopular within Sharon's own party the opinion polls show more favourably for the pulling out of the settlements, if the wider Israeli population is behind a sensible approach to resolving territorial disputes then one can hope one day we might get somewhere.

Still i won't be holding my breath on that one after watching the recent news coverage of the removal of settlers, the extremism shown was astounding, a level of religious fundamentalism that is quite scary.