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Natan Sharansky’s book “A Case for Democracy” was the public paradigm of President Bush’s reason for the end game of the occupation of Iraq after removing Saddam Hussein from power. The essence of the paradigm is that where Democracy is allowed to prosper repressive regimes and the legacy of repression becomes dismantled.
Sharansky is an Israeli citizen now and even involved in the Israeli government; however at one time Sharansky was a citizen of the former Soviet Union. When Sharansky applied for immigration to Israel, the Soviets denied him claiming he knew too many State Secrets.
Sharansky became closely associated with Andrei Sakharov (nuclear physicist) as dissidents to the autocratic Communism. Sharansky’s involvement with the dissidents earned him a conviction as a spy and treason. He was sent to a Siberian gulag where he was badly mistreated.
After more than ten years in the gulag, international pressure secured Sharansky’s release and immigration to Israel. Shortly thereafter the Soviet Regime collapsed and a Russian government attempted to transform into a Democracy. (Putin is currently eroding Democratic Institutions in Russia).
Thus the paradigm that Democracy always overcomes repressive institutions in a nation if given the opportunity to succeed. This paradigm made sense to me as well; unfortunately it is not an absolute theory. Evidently culturally ingrained repression in which religion and statehood are considered one makes the paradigm of Western Democracy to not take hold in Mohammedan nations.
Now there appears to be another dent in Sharansky’s paradigm for Democracy. Democracy only functions as well as a nation’s people elect strong leadership over weak leadership. The Leadership in Democracy makes a nation strong or weak. Strength or weakness is often the difference between successful or failed policies. In some cases Strength or weakness is the difference between existence and obliteration.
Since Israel’s successful founding as a modern Jewish State in 1948, successful democratically elected strong leadership enabled Israel to stave off Mohammedan nations from executing a second holocaust upon the sliver of land known as the Jewish State of Israel. NOW Israel’s weak leadership led by Ehud Olmert as Prime Minister is endangering Israel’s existence with foolish plans that are slowly eroding Israel’s existence based on the trust of EU Democracy in which their citizens are becoming more and more anti-Semitic and pro-Mohammedan as well as America in which a growing number of Democrats and RINO Republicans are becoming pro-Arabic in foreign policy. Couple Olmert’s weakness in not discerning his Western foreign Democracy's agenda with the insanity of trusting Arabs with land for peace will lead to destruction.
In an article written in the Jewish World Review, Carolyn Glick is astounded that the Olmert government has survived considering the huge mistakes and deluded future plans he proposes for Israel.
Glick reports that Olmert is about to give away Judea, Samaria (Israeli for the West Bank), Jerusalem and divide Israel to enable so-called Palestinians a contiguous sovereign nation. That is an agenda that will do Iran’s Ahmadinejad’s work for him: Israel will self-destruct under the weight of deluded trust in the honesty of plenteous Arabs committed to end Israel’s existence.
