If you want to know where we're headed, read the annals of Lebanon. Not the journals of the confused soldiers, but the cool-headed studies, the testimony of Mordechai Zippori and Begin's people. Because what now bleeds like Lebanon, sounds like Lebanon, and looks like Lebanon, will end like Lebanon. Politicians and governments are sometimes locked in circular thought patterns.
Bad things repeat themselves.
Blood is spilled in the place where it was spilled twenty years ago, and the son gets burned in the place where his father's hand touched the fire. If Shimon Peres is the Jewish head who patented new inventions for us, and from whom sprouted the lies and the hallucinations, the agreements and the successes, then Sharon is the clenched Hebrew fist, the belief that peaked in Lebanon, that every human problem has a missile to match. It will take less than a month for the similarity with Lebanon to be completely revealed. One needs to read the history of the beginning of the fighting in Lebanon, not just the history of its end. One must look at the things told to Begin by Zippori, the honest deputy defense minister, whose parallel figure is now lacking in the ministry.