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As Sharon arrives in Texas for meetings with Bush, really ominous developments in Israel, with fears of a clash between far right groups organizing a protest in Jerusalem's Old City and police encircling it averted yesterday when the crowds did not show up. Ha'aretz reports here and here. "The events in the Gaza Strip are liable to deteriorate into an overall violent conflict between two Jewish states with different goals," writes Ze'ev Schiff.
One is the State of Israel, and the other is the state of the settlers.
Despite the profound ties between them, each of them feels threatened by the other. The major clash is expected when the State of Israel carries out the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. But it would be a mistake to think it will end with that. If the Israeli government really intends to carry out its commitments to the road map, the conflict between the sides will probably intensify.
The State of Israel established the state of the settlers and, in the final analysis, the golem is rebelling against its creator.