If the Palestinians can't come to the negotiation table like adults, if they can't reign in Hamas and others, then they should be treated as children and punished. That's their choice.

http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L04337927

I predicted Sharon is only abandoning those settlements he knows the IDF cannot defend, but will continue to expand the building of settlements in the West Bank. Has everyone forgotten about the wall they are building around Palestinian towns. The Israeli plan is to turn the West Bank into a series of isolated Bantustans.

It will be a matter of days before the jihadoterrorists attempt a big attack in Israel.

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Therefore, I expect to see the IDF respond to the next attack with more force than has previously been used.

I wouldn't bet against that prediction.

The disengagment did nothing about them - and neither has Abbas.

The disengagement does increase the efficiency of the IDF.

Therefore, I expect to see the IDF respond to the next attack with more force than has previously been used.

The ONLY viable "next-step" is for Abbas to disarm the jihadoterrorists

If he doesn't, then Israel will remain - for all intents and puroses - at war, only now it will be war against a people they no longer have to legally "take care of" as during the "occupation."

Whuichb is another reason I think the respnse to tne next attack will be very VERY severe.

That, and the fact that Sharon wants to make it very clear that he withdrw UNILATAREALLY and VOLUNTARILY, and nit becasue of the terrorism.

I will NOT be surprised if after the retaliation, the left-wing MSM and the leftist UN and Old Europe condemn Israel for their severe retaliation -- as if it was the retaliation and not the initial attack which was at the heart of the problem.

The anti-Semitic chorus will merely change, a little: instead of GAZAGAZAGAZA; it will be THEWALLTHEWALLTHEWALL, and JERUSLAEMJERUSALEMJERUSALEM.

Some things will never change.