Surrendering Gaza

By Joel C. Rosenberg

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon built his entire career fighting terrorists and opposing the cockeyed diplomatic notion of ?land for peace,? wherein Israel forks over tangible geographic assets in return signed pieces of paper full of meaningless promises.

Yet in recent years, Sharon, 77, has lurched from opposing ?land for peace? to supporting ?land for nothing.?

Almost nobody in Israel wants to keep Gaza or govern the daily lives of over one million Palestinian souls crammed into the tiny sliver of seaside real estate. But the current so-called ?unilateral withdrawal? is unilateral surrender. Israel will give away long-fought-over territory without requiring the Palestinian Authority to wage a real war against Hamas and other terror groups and without requiring the PA to pursue real internal democratic reforms to give pro-peace Palestinian moderates the freedom to speak their mind in public and in the media without fear of reprisals.

As such, Sharon?s gamble is bad for Israel. It is bad for the U.S. and our war on terror....