"If Sharon remains in office, he will do what he is doing now just making war and making life as difficult as possible for the Palestinians."
According to Sabbah, Sharon shares the same dreams of the early Zionist founders of Israel, "to have all (historic) Palestine empty of Palestinians."
He nevertheless doubted that there would be another Palestinian exodus on the scale of 1948 or 1967.
"No Palestinian moved out of the refugee camp," he said, as a consequence of the Israeli occupation this year of the major Palestinian cities.
According to Sabbah, Sharon shares the same dreams of the early Zionist founders of Israel, "to have all (historic) Palestine empty of Palestinians."
He nevertheless doubted that there would be another Palestinian exodus on the scale of 1948 or 1967.
"No Palestinian moved out of the refugee camp," he said, as a consequence of the Israeli occupation this year of the major Palestinian cities.
"The Palestinians are not ready to escape, make an exodus, except if the Israelis use some new weapons, new ways, new massacres, of inspiring fear and pushing the people to go away. I do not see how this could be realized. Physically, this is an impossibility," he said.
"If Sharon remains (in office) five more years, more thousands will be killed but all that will be useless. He will always have 3 million or 4 million Palestinians with whom he will have to deal, and who will always organize their resistance, silently or violently.
"If Sharon remains (in office) five more years, more thousands will be killed but all that will be useless. He will always have 3 million or 4 million Palestinians with whom he will have to deal, and who will always organize their resistance, silently or violently.
"Sharon will always have the Palestinian problem to deal with," he said.
According to Sabbah, the Israelis' greatest fear is demography: "Inside Israel, 20 percent of Israelis are Palestinians. In the next 10-20 years, half the population will be non-Jewish, besides the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories" who number over 2 million at present.
"This is what is terrifying the leaders of Israel, who face the possibility that their state will have a non-Jewish majority," Sabbah said.
According to Sabbah, the Israelis' greatest fear is demography: "Inside Israel, 20 percent of Israelis are Palestinians. In the next 10-20 years, half the population will be non-Jewish, besides the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories" who number over 2 million at present.
"This is what is terrifying the leaders of Israel, who face the possibility that their state will have a non-Jewish majority," Sabbah said.