Reply #3: It seems the tail is wagging the dog in a lot of "democracies". [View All]

From the expressed sentiments of many of Jewish posters to the board, few of them seem to support "Sharon" type Zionism. But the fence continues to go up. Few people in the UK supported invading Iraq, but their government went ahead. How many in the USA really support Bush. We only know what we are told.

One of the things I have been taught over the last two years is the overwhelming power of propaganda. How appealing belligerency is, provided of course you have big guns, and victory is both cheap and at someone elses expense.

Most anti-Sharon Jews sincerely believe that he will be tossed from power the moment the Israelis goals are met. The present government is an abberation, which is really the fault of the Arab Palestinians whose stubborness impose these brutal tactics on the Israelis.

Since many of this opinion are, in fact, very decent people, and see themselves as "moderate" it is hard to see how this mind set will change. Or, indeed, what these people could do to change the policies of Sharon, even if they wanted to.