But this story, unreported here, as far as I can tell, describes a development too stunning to be ignored.
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Is Sharon to blame? Israelis wonder
PM's bid to kill Hamas leader condemned
It is a question rarely asked by Israel's Jews, and almost never in public. But yesterday one member of the Israeli parliament, Roman Bronfman, cautiously wondered if the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, did not have Jewish blood on his hands.
In carefully couched terms, he raised the question after the militant Islamic movement Hamas responded with its favorite weapon - the suicide bombing of civilians - to Israel's botched attempt to kill its political leader.
"It is necessary to examine government policy which may not have been helpful in progressing the "road map" and seems to have taken us back to death, pain and sorrow," Mr Bronfman said
The article goes on to describe the surprising array of Sharon critics, including twenty-five Israeli millitary officers, who were planning to sign an advertisement praising Sharon for embracing a Palestinian state and who now worry he hasn't.
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Among those who initiated the advert was Brigadier-General Asher Levy, Mr Sharon's commanding officer in the 1948 independence war.
"We fought together and we were wounded together, so I know him well. We had a long conversation a year ago and I believed he had changed. Now I'm not sure," he said.
Most Americans have no idea of the range of opinion in Israel. And now there appears to be emerging the return of a willingness there, to take a look at the efficacy as well as the morality of pursuing security Sharon's way. (CNN seems to be reporting, in one of those crawls across the bottom of the screen, that a new poll shows sixty percent plus of Israelis think Sharon's actions played a role in provoking the Hamas attacks.)
Go read; it's a point of view you won't get on cable news.