In the not-too-distant future, I suspect that most Israelis (except Shimon Peres) and Jews the world over will see Ariel Sharon's 'disengagement' for the colossal fiasco that it was is. The process has already begun, and pretty soon it will achieve critical mass.
Sharon fooled a lot of people. People who believed in him and trusted that he had an end game in mind and that he knew where he was going. Perhaps he fooled no one more than he fooled himself. But as his closest advisors begin to disclose just how misplaced that trust was, the picture is starting to unravel. And Olmert is being revealed as the naked emperor accelerating the rush toward oblivion. Hopefully, it's not too late to reverse the course.
Ah, but where then to go? Therein lies the real problem. With no clear path open other than retreat, withdrawal, surrender, appeasement, disengagement, realignment, whatever you want to call it, Israel is desperately in need of a leader, a real leader, one with a different vision, one who can make that call.
